2017-01-17 - Salt Lake City, United States.
Josh Schiffman likes to think of the tumor-suppressing protein p53 as a superhero in a bright red cape. It swoops in whenever there is DNA damage and fixes or eliminates the problem in an attempt to keep the body healthy. Most mammals, from humans to elephants, have some p53. But elephants — which rarely get cancer — have many more copies, Schiffman said, and they´re stronger.
2015-05-10 - SALT LAKE CITY, United States.
The oldest African Elephant in North America and long-time Zoo favorite, 55-year-old Dari, had a difficult time getting up Friday morning. Zoo staff found Dari lying on the ground unable to stand. With a stiff and arthritic hind leg, Dari could not get the leverage she needed to get up on her own.
2013-12-16 - Salt Lake City, United States.
Eric Peterson works with a pair the zoo´s African Elephants. With the only spectators consisting of a couple of other keepers and a wandering rooster, Peterson interacts with the elephants in an extraordinary manner.Peterson, who commutes from American Fork each day, works as the zoo´s elephant manager.
2009-09-16 - Salt Lake City, United States.
Utah’s Hogle Zoo's animal management is announcing the immediate opening of a full time animal care position, as a relief keeper in our Elephant Encounter area. The Zoo is seeking qualified applicants for this keeper position. This is a full time, year-round position and includes responsibility for the care and husbandry of the resident pachyderms, as well as other animals as assigned. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a newly renovated facility.
2009-09-15 - Salt Lake City, United States.
The newest resident of Utah's Hogle Zoo finally has a name. The zoo says the clear winner for its newly arrived baby elephant is Zuri, which means adorable or beautiful. Nearly 10,000 ballots were cast and among five choices, Zuri picked up nearly half the votes. The zoo welcomed the African elephant calf on Aug. 10. She is the first baby for 23-year-old Christie and the first African elephant born at the zoo. Zuri made her first appearance before the general public on Friday.
2009-09-08 - Salt Lake City, United States. Elizabeth White
The baby elephant at Utah's Hogle Zoo is getting ready to make her big debut. And she'll soon have a name, too. The zoo, www.hoglezoo.org, welcomed an African elephant calf on Aug. 10. It's the first baby for 23-year-old Christie and the first African elephant born at the zoo. The little one will make her first appearance before the general public on Friday. A couple days after that, she'll get a name. The zoo invites people choose their favorite among five possibilities: Abenia, Apara, K...
2009-08-13 - Salt Lake City, United States. Matthew D. LaPlante
She's a baby years in the making. Veterinarians decided back in 2004 that Christie the elephant was ready to be a mother. But it took five years and millions of dollars in renovations to the zoo's elephant habitat to bring the Hogle Zoo's newest resident to life. In a 20-minute labor that went by so fast it surprised her keepers, Christie gave birth to a 251-pound female calf on Monday afternoon. The as-of-yet unnamed calf is the first elephant born in Utah in more than 90 years and is the first...
2009-08-11 - Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Salt Lake City now has its first newborn baby elephant in more than 89 years. Christie, a 7,900-pound African elephant at Hogle Zoo delivered her first baby Monday afternoon, after a 22-month gestation. The 251-pound and 36-inch tall female calf is reported to be doing well."The birth was extremely fast," elephant manager Doug Tomkinson said. "It went easy and well, but I can't believe how fast it happened." He added, "This is something miraculous that has occurred. It has been years of hard wor...
2009-02-26 - Salt Lake City, United States. Jessica Eyre
The 40-acre zoo at the mouth of Emigration Canyon has some great exhibits. The Elephant Encounter exhibit features a large canopy next to the view of the elephants. Although it was quite chilly the day we were there, I can imagine this being a welcomed shady area in which to escape the heat. Hogle Zoo now has the oldest african elephant in North America, Dari, who turned 48 on June 14, and another is pregnant.
2009-01-24 - Salt Lake City, United States.
The Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City is hoping a new addition later this year will boost attendance. An elephant calf is expected to be born late this summer. The zoo hopes the birth could increase visits, which numbered nearly one million in 2008. Christie the elephant is pregnant. Her calf would be the first African elephant born at Hogle Zoo. But zoo Director Craig Dinsmore said there are a lot of potential problems with elephant births in zoos.
2009-01-23 - Salt Lake City, United States.
The Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City is hoping a new addition later this year will boost attendance. An elephant calf is expected to be born late this summer. The zoo hopes the birth could increase visits, which numbered nearly one million in 2008. Christie the elephant is pregnant. Her calf would be the first African elephant born at Hogle Zoo. But zoo Director Craig Dinsmore says there are a lot of potential problems with elephant births in zoos. Elephant stillbirths are common and infant mortality...
2008-10-08 - Salt Lake City, United States.
The keeper is responsible for the daily care of the assigned animals, observation and enrichment, training, as well as assisting in veterinary practices, educational presentations, public relations and support aspects of the Zoo's operations. Also required to be trained and work in other animal areas of the Zoo as needed which may include birds, other mammals, reptiles and invertebrates.
2008-09-11 - Salt Lake City, United States. Lynn Arave
Misha, a 27-year-old African elephant, died at Hogle Zoo Tuesday afternoon after being euthanized because of declining health. For the last few weeks, Misha's physical health had been mysteriously deteriorating and early on, animal care staff was aware — through changes in her behavior — that she was not feeling well, according to Holly Braithwaite, Hogle Zoo spokeswoman.
2008-06-10 - Salt Lake City, United States. Matthew D. LaPlante
A 48th birthday celebration for Hydari, an African elephant at the Hogle Zoo, will take on added significance this Saturday, following the Monday morning death of The Philadelphia Zoo's Petal. With Petal's passing at 52, Hydari - known affectionately as "Dari" by her keepers - is now the oldest African elephant in a U.S. zoo. Hogle spokeswoman Holly Braithwaite expressed condolences over Petal's death, and praised the example set by the Philadelphia Zoo's staff in keeping her healthy for so long...
2008-02-22 - Salt Lake City, United States. Derek P. Jensen, The Salt Lake Tribune
After 20 years of traversing the world in the Navy, Earl Gowin has seen a little bit of everything. But it took retirement on a family ranch near Fillmore for Gowin's grandest discovery. In November 2004, a bulldozer operator hit something hard in Gowin's sand and gravel pit, which he had leased to a contractor. "My first thought was, 'That looks like a mammoth tusk,' " Gowin recalled saying about the six-foot fossil. "I didn't know mammoths were in this part of the world, but evidently they wer...
2008-01-18 - Salt Lake City, United States. Alyssa Farley
Visitors to Utah's Hogle Zoo recently got a chance to feast with the beasts. The feeding tour gave visitors a chance to see the animals exhibit some of the foraging, hunting and other feeding behaviors normally seen only by zookeepers. At the Elephant Encounter arena, a 624-pound pumpkin sat propped up against a supporting beam. The crowd fell quiet as the first elephant, Misha, emerged, walked over to the pumpkin, felt it with her tusk, and daintily broke off a piece and placed it in her mouth....
2007-09-08 - Salt Lake City, United States. Brandon Griggs
In Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II, two resourceful keepers of the citys bombed-out zoo rescued Jews by smuggling them into empty animal enclosures. The Zookeepers Wife details how Jan Zabinski helped the Polish resistance by storing explosives in the elephant enclosure, a fact he even kept secret from his wife, and sneaking Jews from the Warsaw ghetto into the zoo, where he gave them animal code names and hid them successfully for years. His wife, Antonina, meanwhile, used her rare cha...
2007-03-25 - Salt Lake City, United States. John Hollenhorst
Getting pregnant doesnt usually require the help of Delta Air Lines, Federal Express and a team of experts from Germany. But thats exactly whats unfolding in Salt Lake City tonight. But the means to the end are distinctly unnatural. Experts from Germany flew in Sunday night, after a stop in Pittsburgh to visit a male elephant. He supplied a crucial ingredient. His contribution was carry-on baggage for the pros from Berlin.
2007-01-04 - Salt Lake City, United States.
Utah’s Hogle Zoo's animal management is announcing the immediate opening of a full time animal care position in our Elephant Encounter area. The Zoo is seeking qualified applicants for this keeper position. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a newly renovated facility. This is a full time, year-round position and includes responsibility for the care and husbandry of the resident African elephants and white rhinos, as well as other animals as assigned.
2006-06-24 - Salt Lake City, United States. Ellen Fagg
Sara Gruen's just-published Water for Elephants, a charming page-turner of a historical novel about a 93-year-old former veterinarian who recalls how he fell in love - with an animal tamer as well as an elephant named Rosie - when he ran away to join a traveling circus during the Depression.
2005-06-13 - Salt Lake City, United States.
There are “big” things happening at Hogle Zoo this summer. The Zoo has opened its largest new animal exhibit in 25 years, the “Elephant Encounter” which brings a part of the Serengeti to Salt Lake City in the re-creation of an African plain featuring three African elephants and two white rhinoceros.
2005-06-02 - Salt Lake City, United States. Amelia Nielson-Stowell,Deseret Morning News
Misha, a 7,240-pound elephant, was the VIP (or "Very Important Pachyderm") to cut the ribbon on Hogle Zoo's new Elephant Encounter exhibit Wednesday.A 110,000-gallon swimming channel, varying terrain, three separate yards and a heated surface area are part of the $5.5 million naturalistic habitat for African elephants Misha, Christie and Hi-Dari and white rhinos George and Princess.
2004-03-08 - Salt Lake City, United States. (KSL News)
Another animal has been euthanized at Hogle Zoo. The Zoo's grand dame, Kali the elephant was put down this morning. This morning zookeepers found Kali alert, but lying on the floor of her exhibit. She was unable to get up, due to her severe joint arthritis. Kali was 59, the third oldest living Asian elephant in the country.
2002-09-30 - Salt Lake City, United States. University of Utah
The study began after Prestwich identified proteins involved in the action of insect pheromones. He heard Rasmussen deliver a lecture about elephant pheromone and decided to look for proteins that help the pheromone do its job. Rasmussen collected urine and mucus for the study primarily from 14 elephants at Riddle’s Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary in Greenbriar, Ark.
2022-10-21 - Kampala, Uganda.
A Ugandan court has sentenced an ivory trader to life in prison - the longest sentence for such crimes in the country's history. A new law was passed in 2019 that toughened sentences for poaching or t...
2022-10-17 - Albuquerque, United States.
Zoo veterinary staff have known for years that Irene suffers from lens luxation, a condition in which the lens in the eye is dislocated from its normal position, causing discomfort and blurry vision, ...
2022-09-30 - Dong Nai, Vietnam.
Solving human-wildlife conflict is a complex issue and a pressing concern for a wide variety of endangered species, none more so than the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). People living around Vietnam...
2022-09-29 - Pattaya, Thailand.
follow us in feedly The third baby elephant of the year has been born at a botanical garden in Pattaya. The Nong Nooch Gardens Pattaya welcomed the new little member, named “Ply Poa Jai” wi...
2022-09-23 - Colombo, Sri Lanka.
‘Bandula’, the elephant found at the National Zoological Garden in Dehiwala is reported to have passed away today. According to reports, the elephant had suddenly fallen ill and had collapsed twic...
2022-08-29 - Katmandu, Nepal.
The elephant named Loktantra Kali at the Koshi Tappu gave birth to a female calf while Saraswoti Kali at the CNP delivered a male calf on Sunday. Nepal is presently home to around 225 indigenous eleph...
2022-08-21 - Hanoi, Vietnam.
A national action plan on elephant conservation in Vietnam for 2023-2032 with a vision for 2050 is being developed. According to the summary report of the General Department of Forestry, the number of...
2022-08-21 - Indawgyi, Myanmar.
The owner of the elephant and the elephant were killed when a landmine exploded at the border of Sagaing Region and Kachin State on August 15 according to sources. They stepped on the landmine when a ...
2022-08-20 - Toronto, Canada.
Moazu Kromah, 49, made millions of dollars poaching and trafficking elephant tusks and rhino horns from endangered animals and was ordered caged Thursday in New York. Kromah and two confederates were ...
2022-08-20 - Khuekkhak, Thailand. Lean Jinghui
An elephant in Thailand has reportedly ripped its mahout (elephant rider or keeper) in half after being overworked. According to The Thaiger, the incident happened at a rubber plantation in the Phang ...
2022-08-19 - New Delhi, India.
Elephant-human conflicts have been on the rise in India as a result of habitat loss, and experts say such conflicts could get worse unless forested areas are protected and migration corridors restored...
2022-08-18 - Mysore, India.
A week after embarking on a practice walk on Jamboo Savari route, howdah elephant Abhimanyu entered the second phase of training on Thursday. The 300-kg sand bags were mounted on Abhimanyu after perfo...
2022-08-16 - Karachi, Pakistan.
Global organisation, Four Paws have sent their veterinarian doctors to Karachi for the treatment of elephants. The team of four doctors have arrived in Pakistan to treat four female elephants- two of ...
2022-08-15 - Chittoor, India.
Jayanth (65) and Vinayak (52) are kumkis (trained elephants), faithfully serving the Forest Department in Chittoor district for more than two decades. Housed at the Naniyala forest camp in the Koundin...
2022-08-14 - Lakhimpur Kheri, India.
Chief conservator of forests and field director, Sanjay Kumar Pathak has decided to document the experiences of these veteran mahouts so that not only the park authorities but other mahouts also benef...
2022-08-12 - Grand Rapids, United States.
Several people are working to unearth mastodon bones in a West Michigan field after they were discovered during a road construction project. The bones are expected to be donated to the Grand Rapids Pu...
2022-08-11 - Theppakadu, India.
Wasim’s trunk pauses midair as he reaches for a bamboo shoot. His mahout, M Eswaran, calls out a command from a distance and in a split second, the elephant changes course. The shoot is far from his...
2022-08-08 - Rhakine, Myanmar. Team Udayadani
A rare white elephant took birth in western Myanmar. The white elephant was born last month in western Rakhine state and currently weighs 180 pounds (80 kilograms) and its height is 2.5 feet (70 centi...
2022-07-18 - Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Travelling north from Siem Reap city on National Road 64 for about 90 minutes you will reach a wooden bridge that will take you to the headquarters of the Kulen Elephant Forest Sanctuary, the home of ...
2022-07-10 - Panna, India.
A 55-year-old elephant is held captive in chains and shackels in the Panna Tiger Reserve after the elephant brutally killed its mahout Budhram Rotiya on Monday, said an official. Ever since its arriva...
