This film will break your heart and that’s the very reason you should watch it and share it and talk about it and hopefully do something, anything, to help our elephants. I didn’t remember that Lily Tomlin loved elephants. Now I can’t help but love her too. She narrates this documentary “An Apology to Elephants.” … Continue reading »
Name: Shirley Date of Birth: 1948 Place of Birth: Sumatra (an island in Indonesia); “a rare Asian elephant” Gender: Female Where Now: The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee Status: Oldest and most infirm elephant at the sanctuary Elephas maximus sumatranus For more Photos of Shirley you will love see them at: The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee … Continue reading »
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 »
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 »
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 »