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Jack the elephant bull (27) has moved from Basel Zoo and returned home to Sosto Zoo in Hungary.
2020-10-22
- Sosto, Hungary.
Jack moved into the new, recently opened Tembea elephant enclosure in May 2017. He spent three and a half years at Basel Zoo. Last Tuesday, he returned to Hungary as agreed. There were no offspring born during his stay – even though he had some encounters with Basel Zoo’s females, none of them became pregnant.
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TikTok fame: From Elephant Boy"s circus tricks to a Chinese teacher
2020-08-23
- Budapest, Hungary. Zhang Nini
Rene Casselly, a seventh generation animal trainer in Hungary, has risen to fame for his amazing stunts that have earned him the nickname Elephant Boy. He now has more than 1.5million followers.
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ELEPHANT BABY BORN ON VALENTINE’S DAY
2013-02-14
- Budapest, Hungary.
After 52 years, an elephant baby was born at the Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden. The baby was born on Thursday morning, February 14. The baby and mother are hermetically closed off from the outside world. The public may not view them yet, and only designated keepers and veterinarians may enter the Elephant House.
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Asian bull elephant Assam transfered to Budapest
2009-10-28
- Budapest, Hungary.
The nine year old asian elephant bull Assam, born in Chester Zoo (Chang x Thai (Thi Ha Way), was transfered yesterday to Budapest Zoo in Hungary.
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Packed trunk
2009-10-20
- Nyiregyhaza, Hungary.
Orphaned elephant calf Jumanee may soon be packing his trunk as zoo bosses try to find him an adoptive mum. The heartbroken youngster lost his mum in August when she died of cancer and stood guard over the spot where her body fell for days trumpeting plaintively. Now keepers in Nyiregyhaza Zoo, Hungary, think they've found him a new mum in France. Zoo director Laszlo Gajdos said: "It really does hurt to see him being so sad. Accepting a substitute mum is not easy, but we hope, it will help the e...
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Big picture month: No greater love
2009-08-23
- Budapest, Hungary. ATTILA BALAZS
Today's photo was taken by Attila Balazs and shows elephants. Orphaned 2-year-old African elephant Jumaane climbs on the back of his dead mother, Yoki, Friday in the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park, 245 kilometres east of Budapest, Hungary. Yoki, 19, died the day before, apparently of a tumour in her spleen. Jumaane stayed with his mother’s body for 14 hours. Keepers say the calf has been looking for his mother, weeping, since the body was removed from the elephant house. View our elephants photo gall...
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Real estate developer adopts elephant Zitta in Budapest zoo
2007-12-05
- Budapest, Hungary.
A real estate developer has paid half million forints (about 2,000 euros) to adopt a female elephant in the Budapest zoo and asked a popular actor to serve as stepfather, it was announced on Wednesday. Actor Sandor Csanyi said he would be delighted to be pachyderm Zitta's stepfather on behalf of Elephant Holding and stated that he had loved babar as a child and had written to Santa Claus asking for an elephant when he was eight years old.
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German drug maker saves baby elephant in NE Hungary
2007-10-05
- Budapest, Hungary.
A German pharmaceuticals company from Hamburg has saved a baby elephant born in the zoo of Nyiregyhaza, N Hungary, last month by supplying a special milk replacement feed after the mother was unable to feed the calf, a spokesperson said on Friday. The baby was the first African elephant born in Hungary, on September 4. The mothers milking glands got inflamed after giving birth and so the baby elephant had to be hand-fed at hourly intervals with the special milk supplied from the German company f...
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Employment Prospects Bleak for Cute New Elefant
2007-09-05
- Budapest, Hungary. Pestiside Staff
You may have read over on Caboodle that Hungary's first ever African elephant was born in captivity at Nyíregyháza Zoo yesterday. However, reading about it is nothing compared to seeing the supercute MTI snaps (the one above with a not-so-cute handler) via the supercute Cukiság, Index's blog dedicated to all things that make you want to go Awwww. However, when the baby bull's time comes to pack his trunk, government tightening of the animal labor market may leave him jobless.
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First ever African elephant born in Hungary
2007-09-05
- Sostoi ut, Hungary.
An elephant has been born in Hungary for the first time in 50 years at the Nyíregyháza Zoo Tuesday afternoon. Zoo Director László Gajdos said that this is also the first African elephant to be born in the country, as all previous elephant babies were Indian. The mother elephant, Yoki, arrived at the zoo from Israel last year. A few months ago, her pregnancy was revealed in a laboratory in Berlin. Yesterday afternoon, Yoki was walking in her runner when an attendant noticed that her water had...
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Elephant escapes from Hungarian National Circus
2007-07-02
- Balatonlelle, Hungary. All Hungary News
An elephant owned by the Hungarian National Circus escaped from the company's tent in Balatonlelle on Saturday, one day after the circus premiered its new show in the town. Szandra, a 30-year-old female elephant who has starred in James Bond movies, pulled the poles of the "electric shepherd" from the ground, then stepped over the wires and left the camp. Early Saturday morning, she was seen grazing on a nearby field. The circus director was immediately notified, and did not have any problems he...
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Mammoth fossils discovered in Southern Hungary
2006-08-09
- Budapest, Hungary.
A fossilized mammoth skull, including a meter-and-a-half section of a tusk and several teeth, was discovered in Zok, a village near the city of Pecs in South Hungary, a spokesman for Pecs University said on Wednesday. Initial digs suggested that the mammoth had been hunted and killed by humans, which makes the find even more interesting. Mammoth fossils were last found in July, when a calf and an adult were unearthed at the shore of Lake Balaton in W Hungary, while constructing a road.
Read more 12 Headlines about Elephants from Hungary 2020-10-22 - Sosto, Hungary - Jack the elephant bull (27) has moved from Basel Zoo and returned home to Sosto Zoo in Hungary.
2020-08-23 - Budapest, Hungary - TikTok fame: From Elephant Boy"s circus tricks to a Chinese teacher
2013-02-14 - Budapest, Hungary - ELEPHANT BABY BORN ON VALENTINE’S DAY
2009-10-28 - Budapest, Hungary - Asian bull elephant Assam transfered to Budapest
2009-10-20 - Nyiregyhaza, Hungary - Packed trunk
2009-08-23 - Budapest, Hungary - Big picture month: No greater love
2007-12-05 - Budapest, Hungary - Real estate developer adopts elephant Zitta in Budapest zoo
2007-10-05 - Budapest, Hungary - German drug maker saves baby elephant in NE Hungary
2007-09-05 - Budapest, Hungary - Employment Prospects Bleak for Cute New Elefant
2007-09-05 - Sostoi ut, Hungary - First ever African elephant born in Hungary
2007-07-02 - Balatonlelle, Hungary - Elephant escapes from Hungarian National Circus
2006-08-09 - Budapest, Hungary - Mammoth fossils discovered in Southern Hungary
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A sad message: The scientist and elephant researcher Ajay Desai passes away in Belagavi
2020-11-21
- , India.
Field biologist and wildlife conservation expert Ajay Adrushyappa Desai passed away in Belagavi on Thursday night. He was 62. Family sources said he suffered a heart attack in his sleep. Mr. Desai is ...
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Animal rights group urges court to recognize Bronx Zoo elephant as person
2020-11-19
- Bronx, United States.
Happy the elephant was the center of attention in court Thursday when five state appellate judges debated whether the beloved Bronx Zoo mammal should be recognized as a person. However, the judges wer...
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Peshawar Zoo authorities move court seeking permission to import elephants
2020-11-16
- Peshawar, Pakistan.
The authorities of the Peshawar Zoo have approached the Supreme Court seeking permission to import a pair of elephants from Zimbabwe. A three-member bench, headed by Justice Mushir Alam, has issued no...
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Juno the Elephant will undergo surgery to remove tumor no longer responding to chemo
2020-11-13
- El Paso, United States.
One of the El Paso Zoo’s Asian elephants, Juno, will undergo her seventh cancer treatment this week. In October 2016, Juno was diagnosed with a malignant mass in her right mammary gland, commonly kn...
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Elephant Sunder gets a treat at end of musth
2020-11-13
- Bangalore, India.
20-year-old male elephant Sunder was treated to seasonal enrichment to mark the completion of its four-month-long musth period at the Bannerghatta Biological Park here on Thursday. Vanashree Vipin Sin...
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Elephant shot fifteen times dies in agony after succumbing to its wounds in Thailand
2020-11-12
- Rayong, Thailand.
The elephant, named Nga-Sun, was found collapsed on a palm plantation by villagers in Rayong province last month. Vets from the local wildlife team identified gunshot wounds across the animal's buttoc...
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Lost elephant calf in Malbazar sent to rescue hub
2020-11-11
- Jalpaiguri, India.
An elephant calf was rescued from near the New Mal railway station in Malbazar subdivision of Jalpaiguri on Tuesday. Soon, a team from the Malbazar wildlife squad arrived and intercepted the calf. The...
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Cambodia Ministry says Asian elephants face threat
2020-11-10
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Soth Koemsoeun
Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra said the Asian elephant is being severely threatened in world sanctuaries. Airavata Elephant Foundation president Chenda Clais said on November 10 that ...
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Sreekutty the elephant had a jumbo birthday bash, these adorable pictures are proof
2020-11-09
- Kottoor, India.
Sreekutty was brought to the Kappukadu elephant rehabilitation centre on November 8, 2019. Staying in the Kappukadu elephant rehabilitation center in Kerala, the calf turned a year old on November 8. ...
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Uttarakhand weighs denotifying elephant reserve
2020-11-09
- Dehradun, India.
The Uttarakhand government is considering denotifying the Shivalik Elephant Reserve. A senior forest department official told The Indian Express, “The state wildlife board will discuss this. That ar...
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Nepalese Mahout killed in elephant attack
2020-11-08
- Nawalapur, Nepal.
A mahout has died when an elephant attacked him while grazing it inside the Chitwan National Park. The deceased is 36-year-old Hansaraj Kunmar Dhami of Chandranigahapur, Rautahat. He had been currentl...
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Five men trying to sell elephant tusks caught on Food Street
2020-11-08
- Bengaluru, India.
HM Chaitanya Swamy, DHNS, Bengaluru, NOV 08 2020, 01:34 ISTUPDATED: NOV 08 2020, 01:56 IST Police have arrested a five-member gang from Tamil Nadu that allegedly tried to sell elephant tusks on Food S...
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849 wild elephants died in Kerala forests from 2009 to 2019. The death rate of wild elephants in Kerala is high, reveals statistics shared by the forest department.
2020-11-07
- Palakkad, India.
The death rate of wild elephants in Kerala is high, reveals statistics shared by the forest department. As per the 2018 census, the wild elephant population in the state is 5,706. The death rate is h...
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Electric fence on the Indo-Nepal border puts migrating elephants and humans at risk
2020-11-06
- Naxalbari, India. AVIJAN SAHA, SAHANA GHOSH
Elephants in north West Bengal, would earlier cross the Mechi river along the Indo-Nepal border, over to Nepal, along a regular route identified as the Mahananda-Kolabari elephant corridor.
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NBC 7’s Dagmar Midcap traveled to Kenya to document efforts being made to save and protect elephants
2020-11-06
- Sereolipi, Kenya.
Nestled in the foothills of Samburu County in northern Kenya is Africa’s first community-owned elephant orphanage. This magical place of healing and hope is named Reteti Elephant Sanctuary. Reteti r...
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Kerala is all set to become home of world’s largest elephant care-and-cure facility
2020-11-06
- Kottoor, India.
With upgradation in progress, the centre will later on have around 50 elephants including the existing 16 elephants. The upgraded centre will have a veterinary hospital equipped with special facilitie...
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Vallabhan waiting for tusk trimming with 1.5 metre long tusks
2020-11-06
- Malayinkeezhu, India.
Tusker Vallabhan of Malayinkeezhu Sreekrishnaswamy Temple is struggling to hold his head high literally after the tusks grew longer and heavier. He is unable to take food due to the long tusks and is ...
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Report on illegal capture, trade of wild elephants in Sri Lanka
2020-11-06
- Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The research team observed that the last elephant birth in captivity was recorded in 1994. “However, the report submitted to the Magistrate’s Court by the Wildlife Conservation Department (DWC) Di...
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New $84 million elephant sanctuary to be developed at Victorias Werribee Zoo
2020-11-04
- Werribee, Australia.
Victoria’s Werribee Open Range Zoo is set to receive $84 million funding to develop a new elephant sanctuary. Announced yesterday by Victorian Environment Minister Lily D’Ambrosio, the $84 million...
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Tusker dies while trying to cross over rail barricade
2020-11-04
- Bengaluru, India.
A tusker died while trying to return to the forest after raiding crops in Bandipur Tiger Reserve (BTR) on Tuesday morning. The incident came to light when a patrolling team saw the sight of the jumbo ...
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