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The Elephant World’s Answer to Picasso
Move over Monet, step aside Cezanne – there’s a new master of form and colour on the scene, and its name is Jumbo. Or rather, their names are Hong, Paya and Somjai – ex-logging elephants in Thailand who are able to paint pictures of everything from flowers and landscapes to their very own ‘self-portraits’. So what’s the scoop with these brilliant beasts? The videos have circulated a few times on the web, so we decided to find out what all the fuss is about.
Continue reading...Mountain Biking through the Mashatu Game Reserve
Monday, August 10, 2009
Darkness was creeping in, and with it the first traces of fear. The opening stage in the tour was only about 20 km long, but with less than an hour of daylight before the big cats would get active, everyone knew they needed to hurry up. Despite precautions like thorn-proof green slime for their wheels, yellow-flowered devil thorns ensured the riders were as plagued by flat tyres as they were by mosquitoes – and this was no time for a hold-up.
Continue reading...Columbian Mammoth Found in Downtown L.A.
Monday, March 2, 2009
On February 18, 2009, the George C. Page Museum announced the discovery of 16 new fossil deposits under a parking lot owned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that is adjacent to the La Brae Tar Pits. The most exciting animal among these new deposits is Zed, a large male Columbian Mammoth. Zed's body and 10' tusks miraculously escaped predators and his skeleton is nearly complete. Find out other amazing facts about Zed.
Continue reading...The Largest Elephant that Ever Existed
Thursday, November 27, 2008
The largest elephant that ever lived was huge, taller than your two story Mayfair flat and almost as tall as the average telephone pole. Evolved from smaller Siberian mammoths, the Songhua River Mammoth roamed Northern China and Inner Mongolia during the Middle Pleistocene about 280,000 years ago. It survived into the Late Pleistocene but died out well before the end of the last ice age.
Continue reading...USA’s Secret Ivory Black Market Second Largest in the World
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Crisis of conscience may be closer than it appears. Image from exfordy
Continue reading...Wildlife Video Roundup
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Environmental Graffiti is pleased to partner with Earth-Touch.com to bring you a brand new series. Earth-Touch seeks to create unique, beautiful, entertaining, and educational wildlife films. Their footage is captured in a way that is both environmentally
Continue reading...South Africa Brings Back Elephant Killing
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
All across Africa conservation groups are working to preserve populations of threatened elephants from threats like ivory poachers. An elephant in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Image by Rob Hooft. Recently, however, the South African government decided that the population in their country was sufficiently large to reinstate elephant [...]
Continue reading...Animal Rights Group Calls Zoo’s Elephant Pregnancy a Sex Crime
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Animal rights groups have called the pregnancy of an elephant in an Australian zoo the animal equivalent of a sex crime. Image by Herrick Thong Dee is an Asian elephant at Sydney’s Taronga zoo. The exotic animal is nine years old, still a juvenile in elephant terms. So [...]
Continue reading...Elephants Evolve Smaller Tusks Due to Poaching
Sunday, January 20, 2008
A species’ evolution has long been thought to take thousands of years to produce seemingly minor changes. It appears that in at least one case, however, evolution is occurring at what seems
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Monday, March 1, 2010
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