2005-08-27 - Pittsburgh, United States. Dwayne Pickels, PittsburghLIVE.com
A North Huntingdon Township woman says her first trip to the Westmoreland Fair ended in pain after a four-ton circus elephant grabbed her wrist with its trunk. "I guess I was just the unlucky one," Ellisha Long said Friday, nursing a bad sprain. Long, 18, said she and her boyfriend, Steve Parsons, went to the fairgrounds in Mt. Pleasant Township Thursday evening and stopped by Wambold's Circus Menagerie at 8:35 p.m.
2005-07-01 - Waterford, Ireland. David O’Mahony
A KERRYMAN is in a “stable but comfortable” condition in Waterford Regional Hospital after being gored by an elephant in Tramore. The animal was part of Circus New York, which has now left the area. Paul Dineen, 35, from Ballyheigue in Co Kerry, underwent emergency surgery on Sunday. He worked at the circus as a rigger, putting up the big top.
2005-06-28 - Knysna, South Africa. Jo-Ann Bekker
The killing of an elephant minder at the Knysna Elephant Park raises questions about whether these mammals should be kept in captivity, particularly when they have survived the trauma of a culling. These are the views of Gareth Patterson, who has been studying the small herd of wild elephants in the Knysna forest since 2001. He said the job of elephant trainer or keeper was judged the most dangerous in America, according to statistics kept by the United States bureau of labour. Tobias Ndlovu, 32...
2005-06-27 - Guwahati, India.
Two people were trampled to death by wild elephants and a pachyderm was brutally speared to death by angry villagers in Assam, wildlife officials Monday said. A wildlife warden said six elephants entered the Letukajan tea garden in Golaghat district, about 300 km east of the state's main city of Guwahati, on Sunday.
2005-06-23 - Johannesburg, South Africa.
An elephant handler was killed by a bull elephant at the Knysna Elephant Park on Tuesday during a morning excursion, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said on Wednesday. The incident at the park also raises questions regarding the safety of South Africa's burgeoning elephant-back safari and tourism industry, said Ifaw spokesperson Christina Pretorius in a statement.
2005-05-05 - Oslo, Norway.
A Polish man was rushed to hospital by helicopter after being squashed between two elephants in Oslo. The 46-year-old animal keeper at the Arnardo circus, which is currently on tour in Norway, was reportedly building a fence around the circus tent when he was suddenly squeezed between the two giant mammals. The man suffered serious injuries to his face and ribs as well as numerous fractures.
2005-04-20 - Kampala, Uganda.
An Indian tourist at a wildlife reserve in northern Uganda was killed by an elephant when he and several compatriots tried to get a close look at the pachyderm and her calf, officials said on Tuesday. The slain safari-goer was one of six Indian visitors in the Murchison Falls National Park on Sunday to have misjudged the distance between themselves and a group of elephants and were charged, the officials said.
2005-04-20 - SEOUL, South Korea.
Six elephants escaped from an amusement park Wednesday and injured a woman as they rampaged through the South Korean capital, officials said. All of the animals were eventually captured and returned to the park. One elephant charged into an alley near an elementary school and hit a 52-year-old woman, Roh In-sun, with its trunk, Yonhap news agency said. She was being treated at a hospital.
2005-04-15 - POLK CITY, United States. Amber Smith
An elephant handler who was kicked by an elephant Wednesday is expected to make a full recovery. David R. Mannes, 52, of Clermont, was airlifted to Lakeland Regional Medical Center at 9 p.m. Wednesday after being kicked by an elephant at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Elephant Conservation Center near Old Grade Road in Polk City.
2005-04-15 - POLK CITY, United States. STEVEN N. LEVINE
An Indian elephant that seriously injured its trainer late on Wednesday will most likely rejoin the herd in a few weeks, Ringling Bros. vice president said on Thursday. Bruce Read, Ringling Bros. vice president of animal stewardship, said Tova, a 36-year-old female pachyderm weighing 6-7 tons, exhibited normal elephant hierarchy behavior about 9 p.m. when it trampled David R. Mannes, 52, of Clermont.
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