The amount of elephant carcasses mysteriously found near a major game park in Zimbabwe has doubled to 22. It is believed that the elephants were killed by a bacterial infection after 11 carcasses were initially discovered on Friday in Pandamasue Forest, between wildlife sanctuary Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls. The mysterious deaths are being investigated … Read more
Mystery as 11 elephants are found dead in Zimbabwe: Poaching ruled out as animals all retained their tusks The carcasses were discovered in Pandamasue Forest in the west of the country Cyanide poisoning has also been ruled out as a cause of the elephants’ deaths Blood samples have been taken to a laboratory to determine what … Read more
Elephant stoned: Polish zoo will give marijuana to elephants to reduce their stress levels Warsaw Zoo will start giving its three African elephants medical marijuana The project will test how the marijuana reduces the elephants’s stress levels Veterinarian Agnieszka Czujkowska believes it is the ‘first initiative of its kind’ The zoo’s herd had to cope … Read more
‘What a w****r!’: Lorraine Kelly launches scathing attack on Donald Trump Jr posing with sawed off elephant’s tail after trophy hunt The presenter hit out at Donald Trump Jr, 42, holding a sawed off elephant’s tail Lorraine, 60, wrote: ‘what a w****r’ on Twitter She commented on a post about a petition to ban lion … Read more
The fossil remains of 22 Ice Age sloths the size of elephants have been found preserved in asphalt in Ecuador, researchers have reported. The specimens — which included 15 adults, 5 juveniles and two newborns or fetuses — were unearthed from the Tanque Loma site on the country’s Santa Elena peninsula. Weighing in at several tons, … Read more
When Planet Earth film-maker Vanessa Berlowitz moved from Bristol to Botswana with her husband and young son to track elephants across 1,000 miles of African bush, she knew it would be an adventure. She just didn’t realise how life-changing it would be I woke to what sounded like a giant fire hose spraying against our … Read more
Meghan Markle gushed over elephants and how she ‘understands them’ in a never-before-seen interview that was taped last summer and aired on Good Morning America on Monday, a day after she and Prince Harry said they would no longer talk to four British newspapers. In the interview, Meghan said she was ‘grateful’ to have been … Read more
Meghan Markle says she ‘understands’ elephants after spending time with them in the wild in never-before-seen interview to promote Disney nature documentary two weeks after its release Markle recorded the interview last summer in anticipation of the documentary she narrated for Disney It aired on Good Morning America on Monday for the first time The … Read more
The Duchess of Sussex’s first gig after quitting the royal family has been revealed – with Meghan voicing a Disney documentary on elephants. Her fee for the project is going entirely to the Elephants Without Borders charity – an organisation dedicated to conserving wildlife and helps protect the animals from poaching. Meghan agreed to do the … Read more
The Duchess of Sussex’s first gig after quitting the royal family has been revealed – with Meghan voicing a Disney documentary on elephants. Her fee for the project is going entirely to the Elephants Without Borders charity – an organisation dedicated to conserving wildlife and helps protect the animals from poaching. Meghan agreed to do the … Read more