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
The planned Stonehenge road tunnel which would divert traffic from the ancient monument threatens to become a ‘hugely expensive white elephant’ as costs exceed £2billion, the Government has been warned today. For decades motorists on the A303 in Wiltshire, which passes the stone circle, have endured severe congestion on the popular route to and from … 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 the Gudalur of Nilgiris district in India Two of the elephants make it over the barrier but the youngest struggles The mother climbs back over so she can hoist the … Read more
Elephant suffers a painful death when it is electrocuted by a fence as it searched for food near Thai mango farm Locals discovered the elephant slumped on the ground in southern Thailand Park rangers examined the animal and found burn marks on its trunk Owners of a nearby mango farm could face charges over their … 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
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
‘THWACK!’ ‘THUD!’ ‘PUT THAT THING DOWN!’ The tented Elephant Camp at Elephant Hills. Fiona says it’s the ideal jungle starter holiday for those who prefer to wake without crippling back pain and like to have somewhere to hang their clothes Majestic elephants at the Elephant Hills’ elephant park in southern Thailand, which borders the wilds of Khao … Read more
That wasn’t so bad! Moment female elephant calf drops on to the soft sand after a 20-minute labour at Chester Zoo and is up suckling and exploring within minutes Remarkable video footage shows moment rare Asian elephant calf is born Mum Sundara Hi Way, 15, delivered baby after a 22-month-long pregnancy Healthy arrival was born … Read more