Dumbo drivers! Trucker films his mate wearing a fancy dress ELEPHANT HEAD at the wheel as they both drive HGVs on motorway – as police say they face prosecution Lorry drivers lark about on motorway in Cumbria as they film a video for TikTok The clip shows one trucker wearing a fancy dress elephant head while … Read more
An elephant kept alone in a tiny enclosure in a Pakistani zoo will be allowed to leave after a campaign by animal welfare activists helped ensure him better conditions elsewhere. Dubbed the ‘world’s loneliest elephant’ by his supporters, Kaavan has languished at a zoo in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad for more than 35 years. … Read more
The Somali elephant shrew, known for its curiously long snout, has been found in the African wild for the first time in more than 50 years. Having been considered ‘lost to science’ since 1968, the tiny mammal has been discovered in the rocky landscape of the Horn of Africa. Following sightings by locals in the … Read more
A little help please, Mum! Baby elephant is put on its feet by its mother after taking a tumble A newborn elephant took a nasty tumble during a trip to the water’s edge at the Chobe River in Botswana Luckily mum was on hand to help get the calf back on its feet using her … Read more
Jumbo effort! Mother elephant gives her calf a helpful shove as it struggles to climb over roadside barrier Footage shows elephants climbing over barrier in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India Two of the elephants make it over the barrier but the youngest struggles The mother uses her trunk to help hoist the youngest over the concrete … Read more
An almost complete 300,000-year-old elephant skeleton with eight-foot tusks has been recovered from a former mine in Germany. The Eurasian straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, died by the shores of an ancient lake before its corpse was scavenged by carnivores. Human ancestors are thought to have eaten from the carcass, as 30 small flint flakes and … Read more
Merry the elephant! Eating fermented fruit gets elephants DRUNK – but tiny shrews and koalas can hold their alcohol, study finds Canadian scientists discovered elephant’s lack genetic mutation called A294 V This is present in humans and other species and allows for processing of alcohol Ends a long-standing debate as to whether elephants get drunk on … Read more
That’s one el of an impression! One year old elephant leaves perfect impression of himself after falling asleep in the sand One-year-old Anjan left a perfect imprint of his head and his trunk in the sand Chester Zoo keepers were able to take a photo before Anjan trampled his imprint People have loved the pictures … Read more
They move slowly across the landscape, lumbering and flat footed, but tenacious. Their primordial mission is to safeguard the past, then furnish and burnish the future anew. Look at them! Their heads are huge and their brains are perhaps not so huge – but their path is straight and true. They trudge onwards through the … Read more
Critically endangered Sumatran elephant is found with its trunk hacked off and its face mutilated after straying from its enclosure The elephant was found on Wednesday afternoon on the Indonesian island of Sumatra It lived in the southeast Tesso elephant area of Riau’s Tesso Nilo National Park Riau’s Natural Resources Conservation Agency are investigating By … Read more