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The Sheldrick Trust has had a few new elephant orphan arrivals in 2003 and need help to raise these elephants and integrate them back into the wild. Please see more information on their elephant orphans and desnaring program.
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Gildah the 4-ton Thai elephant used in the Siegfried & Roy show has died of natural causes, the performers said Thursday. Gildah, 57, died August 30, 2005 at The Mirage hotel-casino's animal habitat in Las Vegas.
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Tusks grow for most of an elephant's lifetime and are an indicator of age. Elephants are "right- or left-tusked," using the favored tusk more often as a tool... shortening it from constant wear. Tusks will differ in size, shape and direction; researchers use them (and the elephant's ears) to identify individuals.
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ELEPHANT, the designation of the two existing representatives of the Proboscidea, a sub-order of ungulate mammals, and ... extended to include their more immediate extinct relatives. As the distinctive characteristics of the sub-order, and also of the single existing genus Elephas, are given in the article Proboscidea, it will suffice to point out how the two existing species are distinguished from one another.
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Most herbivores (plant eaters, like the elephant) possess teeth adapted for cutting and tearing off plant materials. However, except for the very young or infirm, elephants always use their trunks to tear up their food and then place it in their mouth. They will graze on grass or reach up into trees to grasp leaves, fruit, or entire branches. If the desired food item is too high up, the elephant will wrap its trunk around the tree or branch and shake its food loose or sometimes simply knock the tree down altogether.
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THE suspected poaching of a desert elephant in the Ugab River was ruled out on Friday after the injured elephant cow was darted and treated by a vet. It was found that the cow was suffering from stab wounds inflicted by elephant tusks. She was too weak to get up after the treatment and died soon afterwards. The circumstances surrounding the injuries caused to the cow are baffling elephant experts.
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