by admin | Apr 16, 2024 | Elephant News
This summer will see a one hundred strong herd of life-size elephant sculptures begin a year-long tour of the United States, starting in Newport. This ‘Great Elephant Migration’ was created by UK based non profit Elephant Family and helps generate crucial...
by admin | Apr 8, 2024 | Elephant News
Above: stock photo An elephant named Somboon who was captured as a calf and taken to a camp in Pattaya, Thailand where she was forced to give people rides every day for eighty years, has been rescued and rehomed at a sanctuary. “Grandma SomBoon is radiant and content,...
by admin | Mar 25, 2024 | Elephant News
Asian elephant Punch and African elephant Mikki are set to leave Louisville Zoo in the US in order to relocate to Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary. The extract below is taken as a direct quote from the Louisville Zoo website. You can read the entire piece here:...
by admin | Mar 20, 2024 | Elephant News
A fascinating study has further confirmed the importance of multigenerational family structures among Asian elephants. Research has now evidenced that calves born into an environment where they have a grandmother are much more likely to survive and grow into...
by admin | Mar 6, 2024 | Elephant News
For the first time in history, scientists have released findings including photographic and post mortem evidence of Asian elephants deliberately burying the dead bodies of their calves in North Bengal, India. Five calves were documented as case studies, being found in...
by admin | Jan 30, 2024 | Elephant News
After living alone for decades at the zoo in Puerto Rico, Mundi the elephant is now living among other elephants at a refuge in Georgia. Mundi was among hundreds of animals who were removed from the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo, after the U.S. Department of Justice oversaw...
