Riddle Preserve Mourns Loss of Solomon

2008-12-09 - Arkansas, United States. Fred Petrucelli

Solomon is dead; long live Solomon. The 24-year-old pachyderm, the star of the Riddle Elephant Preserve near Quitman, passed peacefully and quietly in his sleep. The end for Solomon was difficult for his owner Scott Riddle who considered the huge elephant a member of the family. "Solomon died earlier this year from the affects of an infection and we could not do anything about it," he said. Large four-footed creatures elephants and horses are susceptible to the kind of infection that doomed Solo...

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Arkansas Elephant birth! (former Circus Elephant)

2007-12-16 - Arkansas, United States. Scott Riddle

Here is Amy and Miss Bets. She was born Dec.8 at 5:18am, weighed
263lbs. 35 inches tall, she is very sweet and Amy is doing a great job of
taking care of her. She is a natural Mother which makes life much easier on
everybody.

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20 years on Internet!

ELEPHANT NEWS was created on 2001 in Munich, and relaunched in Phnom Penh in 2020, with almost 8 000 links to news articles about elephants on the Internet

A number of articles now also have a cross reference to the elephant database, either for individuals elephants and/or to an article about the location holding

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