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Maggie : Elephant of the Week at PAWS – Performing Animal Welfare Society : Loxodonta Africana
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Maggie : Elephant of the Week at PAWS – Performing Animal Welfare Society : Loxodonta Africana

Name: Maggie Date of Birth: 1980 Place of Birth: Zimbabwe, Africa Gender: Female Where Now:  PAWS Sanctuary   African Elephant  Loxodonta Africana For more Photos and also Videos of Maggie you will love see them at: PAWS Sanctuary It was 1981 when Maggie was taken in a culling; her mother left dead on the savanna.  Two years … Continue reading »

Entertaining Elephants by Susan Nance, the Review & How Does Carol the Elephant’s Story Relate?  Part 2
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Entertaining Elephants by Susan Nance, the Review & How Does Carol the Elephant’s Story Relate? Part 2

Part 2:  Entertaining Elephants: The Review  “In 1796, an elephant came to the United States.” From his first “scheme” to capitalize on these animals (the purveyor of pachyderms, Captain Jacob Crowninshield, readily admitted to these shenanigans) Americans were introduced to something they knew little of, namely, the elephant. It is from this humble existence that … Continue reading »

Entertaining Elephants by Susan Nance, the Review & How Does Carol the Elephant’s Story Relate?  Part 1
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Entertaining Elephants by Susan Nance, the Review & How Does Carol the Elephant’s Story Relate? Part 1

Part 1: A News Item:  What Happened to Carol the Elephant?     As if serving as a press release for the 2013 publication of the book Entertaining Elephants by Susan Nance a news item, in that year, appeared in papers across the country. It concerned an almost unheard of event involving an Asian elephant … Continue reading »

Prince : Elephant of the Week at PAWS – Performing Animal Welfare Society : Elephas Maximus
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Prince : Elephant of the Week at PAWS – Performing Animal Welfare Society : Elephas Maximus

Name at Birth: Chang Dee Name Now: Prince Date of Birth: 24 May 1987 Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon at the Oregon Zoo Mother: Me-Tu   also born at the Oregon Zoo Father:  Hugo   who was donated to the Oregon Zoo, several years before Chang Dee’s birth, by Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus Gender: Male … Continue reading »

Supreme Court in India to Decide on How to Protect Captive Elephants of Kerala
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Supreme Court in India to Decide on How to Protect Captive Elephants of Kerala

In an unprecedented move the Supreme Court in India has called for the “registration of all of the captive elephants in Kerala” and an immediate count of said animals. This action is being taken to “hold people accountable” for any and “all acts of cruelty” these elephants have endured for far too long.     … Continue reading »

Former Chargers Cheerleader & Sports Illustrated Model Launches Charity to Help Elephants and Wildlife
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Former Chargers Cheerleader & Sports Illustrated Model Launches Charity to Help Elephants and Wildlife

Exotic wildlife, including elephants, can thank their lucky stars that Marlina Moreno, a 24-year-old beauty who has modeled for Sports Illustrated and danced for an NFL team, “found her calling” after visiting a South African jungle in 2012. After that fateful trip, she felt compelled to leave her spot on the cheerleading squad for the San … Continue reading »

Kamok : Elephant of the Week at The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust : Too Cute
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Kamok : Elephant of the Week at The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust : Too Cute

Name: Kamok Date of Birth: 7 September 2013 Gender: Female Where:  The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nursery   Nairobi Kenya Africa Kamok: Too Cute For Photos see them at: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Found alone and wavering, she was rescued at one day old on 8 September 2013, a Sunday. The DSWT rescuers discovered that the … Continue reading »

“We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them.”  Liz Jones and the Elephants  Part 4
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“We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them.” Liz Jones and the Elephants Part 4

  Hope For a New Beginning But there is hope. Geeta Seshamani of Wildlife SOS has offered assistance in the matter. They were responsible for rescuing Raju, now 51, who endured repeated head beatings so severe it blinded him. The elephant and the journalist came together recently at the Wildlife SOS’s refuge near New Delhi. … Continue reading »

“We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them.”  Liz Jones and the Elephants  Part 3
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“We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them.” Liz Jones and the Elephants Part 3

The Secret Camps   At a secluded “training camp” in Karnataka each elephant is forced into a “wooden pen” called a “crushing cage” or “kraal.” Once confined, unable to “move or even lie down” the elephants are kept “isolated, confined, starved, and dehydrated.”  They are jarred awake each morning by noise. The evening is more … Continue reading »

“We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them.”  Liz Jones and the Elephants  Part 2
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“We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them. We Have to Release Them.” Liz Jones and the Elephants Part 2

The Elephants The following are just a few of the 57 Elephants at the Guruvayur Temple in Kerala, southern India that need our help:   Nandan     is age 43, a male “tusker” who for 20 years has been shackled in a way as to restrict his ability to lie down or even reach water in a … Continue reading »