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Postcard featuring Little Bertha, the worlds most talented performing elephant from Nugget Casino in Sparks

Little Bertha, the worlds most talented performing elephant

2006-11-09 - Sparks, United States.

Trained and presented nightly by Jenda Smaha in the International Follies at the Nugget Casino in Sparks (East Reno) Nevada. Overall Condition: Excellent
Bends or Creases: None. Corner Wear: Minor Handwriting/Other markings: E60 is neatly written on the back. $6.50 postpaid to a US address, or $8.00 postpaid to anywhere else.


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Miami zoo flush with visitors for poop exhibit

2006-10-27 - MIAMI, United States. JESSICA GRESKO

Now on display is a 5,000 square foot exhibit on excrement titled "The Scoop on Poop," an educational exhibit filled with photos of animals and faeces. Elephant keepers were charged with weighing the amount of elephant poop one of the zoo's Asian male elephants, Dahlip, produces in a 24-hour period. The turd total: 540 pounds.


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Hotel Boosting awareness in elephant sanctuary

Chwen (left) and Rizal with the framed images of Embun@Siput and her footprint.

2006-10-26 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“The framed image of Embun@Siput is placed at the reception at Legend Hotel Hotel by Awareness and Preservation of Elephants (APES) spokesman Chwen Zeng and Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary assistant wildlife officer Mohammad Rizal Paimin to create awareness and let people know about the project. It is a high traffic area so tourists can see it while checking in and this will help spark interest in the project,” said Chwen.


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Indonesia to deploy soldiers to help extinguish haze-producing fires

eight endangered Sumatran elephants were released into Tesso Nilo National Park

2006-10-17 - JAKARTA, Indonesia.

Indonesia Brush fires that have sent a gray haze over neighboring Malaysia and Singapore scattered rare elephants in an Indonesian forest Tuesday, as the government prepared to have soldiers fight the blazes, officials said. The fires on Tuesday continued to ravage more than 200 hectares (500 acres) of conservation area for Sumatran elephants at the Tesso Nilo National Park and had forced some of the animals to wander on lands bordering with settlements.


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Floods force jumbos out of submerged home

2006-10-13 - Ayutthaya, Thailand. APINYA WIPATAYOTIN

Continuing floods in Ayutthaya have made life difficult for elephants. The management of the Ayutthaya Elephant Park has had to move over 12 elephants under its care onto a road near Wat Maheyong in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district as the site has been submerged since early this month. ''We have never faced such a crisis before. Water came very fast and the current was so strong that we had to move the jumbos from the park,'' manager Kannapoj Tipwong said yesterday.


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Running of the Elephants, Republican uses animals, mariachi band to critique border security

Three elephants, two African and an Asian, crossing the border

2006-10-11 - Brownsville, United States. SARA INÉS CALDERÓN

Reports of an elephant crossing the river or people trying to smuggle an elephant across were rampant Tuesday while an elaborate political stunt was taking shape near the mouth of the Rio Grande. The elephants came from Shrine Circuses, said James Plunkett, who produces the circus. They arrived in Brownsville on Monday and were scheduled to be on their way to Maybank on Tuesday afternoon. The elephants and the crew were at the Rio Grande for less than an hour, Plunkett said.


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Micro solution for Mumbai"s jumbo problem

2006-10-06 - MUMBAI, India.

Elephants in India's financial capital are to be microchipped to make sure unlicensed pachyderms don't give authorities a jumbo-sized headache. "A microchip is like a voter identity card: if an elephant doesn't have one, we'll know it's in the city illegally," said Sarfaraz Khan, deputy conservator of forests for Mumbai's Thane district and the driving force behind the initiative.


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Central region flood woes raise PM"s concern

An elephant is evacuated to dry ground as the Lopburi River floods into the Royal Elephant Kraal in the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya, 80km (50 miles) north of Bangkok

2006-10-04 - Bangkok, Thailand.

In Ayutthaya province, gradually rising waters forced mahouts to relocate all elephants in the ancient royal elephant corral to higher ground after barriers installed by the labour of the elephants themselves failed to withstand the strong currents. Most residents have been forced to travel by boats or have evacuated to other areas.


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Meeting for White Elephant in Burma

2006-09-27 - Mayu, Myanmar.

Yesterday authorities from Buthidaung Township held a meeting at the Forest Department's office to discuss searching for white elephants in the Mayu Range, which is located among Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and Rathidaung Townships, said an official report. White elephants are exalted by the Burmese community, and Burmese junta has a belief that the presence of a white elephant will bring prosperity and wealth to a country.


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Tourism official proposes elephant ban at Angkor

2006-09-20 - Angkor, Cambodia.

A tourism official proposed to prohibit elephants from entering Cambodia's Angkor Park, right after the government enforced a ban of dog at the heritage last week to ensure its peace and cleanness, local media said on Wednesday. Moeung Sonn, managing director of Eurasie Travel and president of the National Association of Tourism Enterprises, was quoted by the Cambodia Daily as saying that the pachyderms carrying visitors to the temples might be a hazard to the daily 2,000 to 3,000 walking touris...


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