Artist: Addison Size: 4.0 X 4.5 Medium: Watercolor Colors: Grey rabbit with black eyes wearing a light blue jacket and an orange scarf. Brown sled is stacked with gift wrapped presents in various shades of red and green. Featuring: Bunny rabbit walking and pulling a sled full of presents at Christmas …
Artist: Addison Size: 6 X 4 Medium: Watercolor Colors: Traditional Brown vintage football with white stitching against a green and light tan background Featuring: Old Time Football displayed on wooden surface Title: Old-Timey Football, Original Watercolor by Addison: Original Sports Lovers Watercolor Painting About the artist: “Hello, my name is Addison Quirk. I like to place my art …
National Pumpkin Day has rolled around again and on this 26 October 2023 we discover that pumpkins the world over come in many shapes and colors. One sanctuary elephant in Chiang Mai, Thailand was snapped enjoying a green pumpkin as a tasty snack. And remembering our elephant Packy, who was born in …
It’s as If it were yesterday, watching Debbie and Ronnie, besties at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, twirling and dancing and squealing in delight (that’s trumpeting in elephant speak) as the rain came pouring down. What fun they had in their almost synchronized dance, pausing only to sling mud over their own backs! No taking shelter …
‘Whoops… ooommmmpppphhhh’ cried Amelia. ‘The machines are coming!’ warned Marvin. ‘I can’t move! ‘Don’t panic. I’ll help you.’ (Marvin) ‘Run, Amelia, run!’ ‘It’s okay, they’re slowing down, but we have to tell the herd!’ said Marvin (The elephant herd confronts Amelia) ‘You almost led them right to us.’ …
Host: “Toka, Thika and Iringa are three Toronto elephants. You made a very substantial offer to the City of Toronto. What was it?” BB: “Well, uh, Pat Derby called me and said that, uh, they had the three elephants, they thought they were going to be able to get them. Host: “Um hmmm” BB: “And they said …
It is not as uncommon as one would think, given that zoo elephants are randomly brought together from different locales (different countries of Africa, as in the case of the former elephants at the Toronto Zoo) and most importantly, different herds. Add to the mix captive born elephants who have never experienced even one day …
From the trauma of being captured from the wild (as his mama lay dying) to the years he spent suffering in the Islamabad zoo, our elephant Kaavan endured a life of both physical and emotional pain. Kaavan’s rescue & release to a sanctuary was the greatest gift humans could give to this elephant. It was …
Remember Me Name: Star Date of Birth: 18 September 2007 Place of Birth: village of Baan Tuek, Thailand Date of Death: 24 May 2010 Gender: Female Elephant’s Home: Boon Lott’s Elephant Sanctuary BLES Location: near the village of Baan Tuek in Sukhothai, North Thailand For information on this Baby Elephant’s Life & more photos …
She was so fragile they didn’t know she would even make it through the night, let alone bring another kind of joy into their lives at later date… This video is so beautifully produced and sweetly told Elephant Spoken Here will now defer to Dame Daphne Sheldrick and one of the selfless DSWT keepers / …
For this seventh annual World Elephant Day there is still time to join in on the ‘Elevents’ taking place in cities and towns and villages around the world to help save our African & Asian Elephants. And two special events are being hosted for Lucy the zoo elephant who has not been forgotten by elephant … Continue reading »
An experience of a lifetime occurred recently for a couple on holiday in Kruger National Park when they looked up from their loungers at their safari lodge and found themselves in the shadows of three very thirsty wild bull elephants. Filmed by fellow lodgers the man and woman wisely remained stock-still as the foraging elephants … Continue reading »
“Dozens of Sumatran elephants have been killed in recent years,” the result of human-elephant conflict. In July 2018 another female elephant, age 10, was discovered dead in the “Jambo Reuhat village in North Aceh” in Sumatra (again on a palm oil plantation, the deforestation of which continues to deplete an elephant’s natural habitat & at … Continue reading »
Egrets & elephants are not an unfamiliar sight. Watch them peacefully coexist on a lazy afternoon in Sri Lanka. “Playtime of Baby elephants” by cp wild Lanka on YouTube Image: CC Flickr: Mama elephant & her baby among the egrets in Sri Lanka Continue reading »
Sometimes it doesn’t matter how narrow or shallow the ditch, if you’re stuck, you’re stuck. Fortunately this little Asian elephant found that there are still kind humans left in this world to lend support to send one on its way. A recent elephant rescue in India, on video, proved just that. Distraught at the inability to … Continue reading »
It doesn’t seem like 19 years have passed since Shirley the elephant was first welcomed into her new home at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. That was 6 July 1999 (on the very day Shirley turned 51!) and that milestone was her retirement to a place where she could roam free and live like an … Continue reading »
Elephant Parade is Back in London and Elephant Family was, again, there to welcome them. Elephant Parade London 2018 was officially launched 21 June 2018 (see their Facebook post on that date here) by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, Joint President of Elephant Family If not for a baby elephant named Mosha Elephant Parade would … Continue reading »
Watch the tiny male elephant stumbling happily (& confidently!) alongside his ambling Mother as they, and their elephant herd, cross a muddy river in Kruger National Park. What the elephant calf doesn’t expect is his need of his mama’s assistance to make it up the slippery riverbank! With some rumbles of encouragement and with the gentle … Continue reading »
When Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young founded, what came to be known as, Tiffany’s on 18 September 1837 they would not have included in their charter a commitment to save elephants. But fast forward 181 years and you find that Tiffany & Co, the luxury jewelry retailer recognized around the world for their … Continue reading »
Whoever says bull elephants aren’t graceful hasn’t witnessed this particular elephant! At first glance it may look like this African elephant was possibly performing his graceful moves á la the ballet or practicing poses he mastered inside a yoga studio. But as wildlife photographers Michelle Broadhurst & Jacques Joubert (their website is Wings2Tusks ) explain, … Continue reading »