I LOVE elephants

This beautiful pachyderm sat on the car.  I think that was a good idea.  I think that the elephant has a crush on the little volkswagen.  Definite attraction in the air!  (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2717919/VERY-heavy-petting-Tourists-stuck-hatchback-elephant-gets-frisky-South-African-safari.html)

I LOVE elephants

Here's why.  This photo is from a great collection on huffington with the most cute photos of animals together.

Anderson Cooper & Jeff Corwin and BEAUTIFUL elephants

From a 2007 Anderson Cooper 360 episode (http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2007/03/what-its-like-to-be-tossed-by-elephant.html) about Asian elephants in Cambodia, another almost extinct  animal thanks to mankind's greed.

Great photo......

Jeff Corwin and Anderson Cooper in CNN documentary about Cambodian Asian elephants.  Copyright CNN

See a video clip of the show.

Elephants mourn

This is a heinous photo of a baby elephant who is mourning its dead mother.   Is that a lion in the background?  And a hyena on the right?

This is hideous.   And this incredibly intelligent and loving creature was slaughtered by mankind.  This was not a kill for food (although the way that lion and hyena are looking, they probably may have had "fast food" for the day).

This was a kill to satiate wretched excessively wealthy people who collect ivory.  This photo breaks my heart.  See article link below.    Also visit my other elephant blog postings, by clicking here.  

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2317752/Heart-wrenching-moment-baby-elephant-discovers-mother-died--refuses-leave-side.html

A SWEET baby elephant is SAVED

I LOVE elephants.  This article is the best medicine from my last blog post. It is from DailyMail online.  To read more, click here.

Excerpt from the article:

"A baby elephant who was almost hacked to death by ivory poachers is walking again thanks to an ingenious new boot and lots of TLC.  The 17-month-old calf called Suni was found in Zambia almost a year ago dragging herself along by her front legs, weak and dehydrated, after suffering severe axe wounds."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311547/Orphaned-baby-elephant-nearly-hacked-death-left-paralysed-ivory-poachers-walks-thanks-special-boot.html#ixzz2QxfIMbZD
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This gruesome story is happening in the few locations on the planet where elephants still live.  According to DailyMail Online, this and other violence to elephants continues, because:

"Elephant poaching across Africa is now at its highest level for more than 20 years, which campaigners say is due to increased demand for ivory from newly affluent Chinese consumers."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311547/Orphaned-baby-elephant-nearly-hacked-death-left-paralysed-ivory-poachers-walks-thanks-special-boot.html#ixzz2QxgDE5kU
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So basically we are wiping out the entire population of pachyderms that still exists on our planet (approximately 200,000 to 300,000), with great brutality I might add, simply to provide another trophy in the hobby/collection for/of a rich person.   I quote DailyMail article:

'The sale of any ivory - legal or not - is creating demand. No one needs ivory. It is a beautiful substance, but the only ones who need it are elephants'

 Cynthia Moss of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311547/Orphaned-baby-elephant-nearly-hacked-death-left-paralysed-ivory-poachers-walks-thanks-special-boot.html#ixzz2QxkmRZQx
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There are so many organizations that you can support to eliminate the descimation of this noble species by our pathetic, ignoble species.  Please support them in any way you can.

Vets preparing Suni for her operation: Specialist flew in from Norway and the U.S. operate on the orphaned youngster and fit her with the aluminium leg support which has put her back on her feet


• Elephant Orphanage Project     http://www.davidshepherd.org/project/zambia-park-protection-programme-incorporating-the-elephant-orphanage-project/

• Amboseli:  Africa's Elephant Park

http://www.amboseli.com

• Elephant Orphanage Project http://worldwildlife.org/species/elephant

I LOVE Elephants

A protective elephant charges at a pack of hyenas to protect its injured calf

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These amazing pictures were captured by American photographer Jayesh Mehta, 47, in the Savuti region of the Chobe National Park in Botswana

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303350/Heart-stopping-moment-protective-elephant-charges-pack-hyenas-protect-injured-calf.html#ixzz2QGgCKQo2 
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A Magnificent species: the ELEPHANT

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2299872/Elephant-Savuti-Game-Reserve-Botswana-charges-photographer-Ben-Cranke.html

I LOVE Elephants

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289506/Mother-knows-best-Touching-snaps-host-patient-parents-bonding-boisterous-babies-animal-kingdom.html

This photos is from a Dailymail article about motherly love.  To see the article:  click here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289506/Mother-knows-best-Touching-snaps-host-patient-parents-bonding-boisterous-babies-animal-kingdom.html).

Bali Hotel where 30 elephants are STAFF members

I will travel to this hotel just for the accommodations and the pachyderm help on staff.

This a hotel that incorporates elephants as part of your stay in every aspect of your visit. It is also a luxury spa experience located in the historic historic village of Taro, Bali, Indonesia.

Elephant Safari Park & Lodge

Jalan Elephant Park Taro, Taro Village, Tegallalang, Ubud Bali 80561, Indonesia

Lodge: Tel +62 361 8988888 Fax +62 361 898888

Sales Office : Tel +62 361 721480

Fax +62 361 721481

Email: info@elephantsafariparklodge.com

Reservation: online booking

Click here for their website http://www.elephantsafariparklodge.com

AN Elephant who can SPEAK

Photo below: Current Biology, Stoeger et al. Koshik, an elephant at the Everland Zoo in South Korea, can speak Korean aloud. Here Ashley Stoeger and Daniel Mietchen record his vocalizations.

"A zoo elephant in South Korea can speak Korean out loud, researchers say. The pachyderm is capable of saying "hello," "good," "no," "sit down" and "lie down" — all by using its trunk to do the work of lips in a process scientists don’t fully understand. The elephant likely does not understand the actual meaning of what he says, researchers said.

Past reports have suggested both African and Asian elephants were capable of vocal mimicry like parrots."

From Today

ELEPHANTS are magnificent

Just not the Republican kind.

Dmitry Stepanov/Soviet News

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218015/African-elephants-tangle-battle-mating-rights.html

Elephant. COOL PHOTO

ELEPHANTS

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Elephant Tracks

An elephant crosses a railway track, which runs through the Mahananda Wildlife sanctuary in west Bengal.

Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/today-in-pictures/0,31511,2019772,00.html#ixzz10TboFpB8

ELEPHANTS

AMAZING moms of the animal kingdom TIME photo essay

DLILLC / Corbis

African Elephant
The largest land mammal also has the longest pregnancy among mammals, averaging a staggering 22 months. Elephants usually give birth to one calf, who will rely on the mother's milk for four to six years. One would think that years of devotion to her calf and the protection of the herd would lead to a healthy adult elephant, but in reality, very few calves live to adulthood.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1987961_2134847,00.html#ixzz0ndfB1k2w

Frans Lanting / Corbis

Emperor Penguin
Successfully raising a chick is a truly remarkable accomplishment for this mom and dad. Courtship for a typical couple starts in March and April, when temperatures in the Antarctic are about –40°F (–40°C). Emperor penguins are serial monogamists and will wait for their previous year's mate before breeding again. The female produces one egg and leaves it in the care of its father while she makes the nearly 74-mile (119 km) journey back to sea to capture the fish she will need for feeding. Upon returning to the nesting site, she must relocate her mate and chick. Then the pair switch roles, Mom caring for the offspring while Dad makes the same long journey to the ocean and back for food.

Help out these amazing moms through the World Wildlife Fund.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1987961_2134851,00.html#ixzz0ndg0ucAX

Beautiful Pachyderms (not of the US political kind I might add)

Damir Sagolj / Reuters

If you follow this blog you'll know that I love elephants. This is the sweetest gesture. The Haiti situation was indeed hideous before the earthquake and is beyond disastrous at this point. My heart truly goes out to that country. I encourage everyone to please donate something. They needed it before....but now. I donated to the Red Cross using the text-messaging effort--it involves sending the word "Haiti" in a cellphone text message to the number 90999, which automatically adds a $10 pledge to a person's phone bill.

The picture above is from TIME.com picture of the day, January 21, 2010.

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Thai elephants walk through the backpackers' area of Khao San Road to collect money for the survivors of Haiti's earthquake.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/today-in-pictures/0,31511,1955736,00.html#ixzz0dYSH8ptw

Cool Photo. A baby elephant.

Michael Dalder / Reuters

I want a baby elephant! Isn't it the best.

TIME Pictures of the Week
December 23, 2009

Tell Me All About It
Baby elephant Jamuna Toni cuddles with a zookeeper at Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/today-in-pictures/0,31511,1949916,00.html#ixzz0ae2OcDtc

I love ELEPHANTS. Take a look at these elephant ARTISTS!

I've you've been tracking with this blog for a while, you know how much I love elephants (among other things). This is an amazing sight. These elephants are artists. See the painting of the tree by this wise old pachyderm!

I found these at a really fun website called Damn Cool Pics: Here was the caption: "these amazing images were made by the Elephant Artist Sri Siam at the Lamphang Elephant Camp in Thailand. It is hard to tell whether the elephants actually know what they are drawing, or that they have learned to imitate a teachers work or their caretaker is directing them how to draw. Nonetheless it is unnaturally fascinating to see them busy."




Check this out.....a self-portrait by one of the elephant artists:
Absolute beauty in every way.

I love ELEPHANTS.....and other endangered species and reincarnation

Isn't it tragic that these magnificent animals (Pygmy elephant, Sumatra tiger, polar bear, giant panda) are species on the brink of nonexistence? I love elephants and if I HAD to return to this pathetic planet again because of reincarnation, I would come back as an elephant.

Except if they are going to be extinct (thanks to our pathetic worthless species) then I suppose I'd have to make another choice. Maybe a hummingbird or a dolphin (dolphin and elephants are my favorite).

Or maybe a great white shark who could eat up mankind and make that species extinct :)

It is so very sad to look at these photos and think of their extinction. They are all such beautiful creatures. For more information read this great Time article at http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1888702_1863797,00.html or visit the world endangered species website

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I just LOVE elephants--more cool photos

TIME Pictures of the Week: Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009

Boris Roessler/DPA/Landov

Just Your Average Day in the Park
A sunbather and an elephant enjoy the sunshine in Frankfurt, Germany.

http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1913801_1916774,00.html

(Remember you can click on photos to enlarge)

TIME Pictures of the Week: Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009
Caters News/Zuma Press

All Aboard
A doting mother swan takes her brood of six under her wing at Bicton Park
Botanical Gardens, in Devon, England.

http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1915076_1919057,00.html

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