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Linnaeus's Asian elephant was wrong species
Linnaeus dubbed the species Elephas maximus, which is now commonly known as the Asian elephant. He recognized just one species of elephant in the world, and this would be its archetype. In some ways, the specimen looked more ...
2013-11-04   Stockholm, Sweden Category: taxonomy

Zoo’s plan to relocate elephants will stress animals, ex-veterinarian says
More than 30 years ago in a Sri Lankan jungle, then-Calgary Zoo veterinarian Darrel Florence fashioned a homemade device from a 7Up container and a garden hose, then used it to feed formula milk to three 200-pound infants.Flo...
2013-05-03   Calgary, Canada Category: relocation

Lost in Laos
When French explorer Henri Mouhot passed this way in 1861, he found the roads so rugged -- "devil's pathways," he called them -- that the only way to travel was on the back of an elephant, without which "no communication woul...
2009-09-05   Botene, Laos Category: medical

Iconic elephant Carol put to sleep at San Diego Wild Animal Park
A 40-year-old Asian elephant at the Wild Animal Park was euthanized this morning because of foot and joint disease, San Diego Zoo officials said. Carol has been an icon of the zoo and Wild Animal Park since 1968, when she arr...
2007-06-19   San Diego, United States Category: death

Killer elephant Winkiess fate still up in the air, Board to decide if it should be euthanized
There is no word yet on the fate of Winkie, the Asian elephant that attacked two handlers at The Elephant Sanctuary here Friday, killing one and injuring the other. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has stated that it w...
2006-07-23   HOHENWALD, Tennessee, United States Category: accident

Reports says no gross negligence in Wild Animal Park elephant death
A zoo association's investigation into why a 36-year-old African elephant collapsed while being trucked from a Chicago zoo to one in Utah where it died, identified "several concerns" but found no gross negligence by the anima...
2005-07-21   Chicago, United States Category: welfare

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