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Zoo elephants don’t live as long as those in the wild, according to a study sure to stir debate about keeping the giant animals on display. Researchers compared the life spans of elephants in European zoos with those living in Amboseli National Park in Ke
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An African elephant has been born at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park.
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AP, Los Angeles
Billy the elephant is staying put, and Bob Barker isn’t happy about it.
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AP, Washington
Zoo elephants don’t live as long as those in the wild, according to a study sure to stir debate about keeping the giant animals on display.
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AP, Los Angeles
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AP, Los Angeles
A City Council committee has rejected a move to stop work on a $40 million elephant enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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AP, Dallas
Comedian and animal rights advocate Lily Tomlin says Jenny the elephant has worked 22 years for the Dallas Zoo and it’s time for the aging pachyderm to retire.
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Mexico has seized 12 animals from a circus a day after one of its elephants wandered onto a highway and was struck and killed by a bus.
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AP, Mexico City
A five-ton elephant escaped from a circus and wandered onto a busy highway, where it was hit by a bus and died on Tuesday.
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AP, Beijing
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AP, Dallas
Jenny the lonely elephant, whose pending move from the Dallas Zoo to Mexico had angered activists, isn’t going anywhere after all.
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AP, Jerusalem
Israeli officials say a 17-year-old girl who sneaked into a zoo near Tel Aviv with a friend was attacked by an elephant and hospitalized.
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A slain elephant is shown after a recent poaching incident in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, a protected area near Nairobi. Five elephants have been killed in Tsavo in the last six weeks and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) confirmed that elephant...
