Osh, the lone elephant remaining from a group of four at the Oakland Zoo, will head for Tennessee to the nation’s largest elephant sanctuary this fall. After 20 years living in the Oakland Zoo, the park’s last remaining African elephant, Osh, will be relocated to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee later this year, the zoo announced in a press release. …
Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. The fossil record shows that, 20 million years ago, proboscidean teeth looked completely different. Their tooth wear measurements from fossils revealed that, about 21 million years ago, the first increase in dietary uptake of grass was achieved by the primitive “gomphothere”-type proboscideans of Africa. Statistical testing of the data showed …
Sydney: African elephant numbers have dropped from about 26 million in the 1800s to 415,000 today. Due to their unique physiology, African elephants need hundreds of litres of water each day to survive. Let elephants roam free Creating artificial water sources is a common management intervention when elephants need water. And large numbers of elephants congregating around water can permanently …
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