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Yet, probably the most viral video was about an elephant called Mare Noi who had spent the last 41 years of her life in chains. The short clip shows her taking her first steps to freedom.
The sculpture depicts a legless, gray creature with the head of a northern elephant seal, a larval body, and human arms clasped together in front of it.It sits on a waiting room chair, and, according to the sculptor, the figure symbolizes the emotions of people who wait at the doctor's office.
Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths.In some cases, all members of the family can be referred to as elephants.
The grey-faced sengi is a species of the elephant shrew or sengi family, belonging to the genus Rhynchocyon.Its discovery was announced in 2008. [3] Until this species was discovered, only 15 species of elephant shrew were known, with the last living species having been described more than a century ago (the eastern rock elephant shrew, Elephantulus myurus).
The elephant was stolen from the wild when she was just a baby and spent 80 years working in the logging and tourism industries Rescued elephant resting peacefully indoors, finally enjoying ...
The heartbreaking photos show Yani, a Sumatran female elephant, sobbing moments before she passed away on Wednesday, after suffering from "blistering skin" and reportedly receiving minimal treatment.
Europeans came in contact with live elephants in 327 BC, when Alexander the Great descended into India from the Hindu Kush, but Alexander was quick to adopt them.Four elephants guarded his tent, and shortly after his death his associate Ptolemy issued coins showing Alexander in the elephant headdress that became a royal emblem also in the Hellenized East.
Recently, a baby elephant's journey on a plane got somewhat easier thanks to some unlikely companions. On October 13th, staffers from the David Rescued baby elephant 'comforted' by two ostriches ...