2005-05-23 - Seoul, South Korea. Park Su-ryon
The barbecue restaurant that got a surprise visit from three elephants last month has become a very popular place since reopening last week. The eastern Seoul eatery was closed for a month after the April 21 incident, in which three elephants that had escaped from a nearby zoo burst in, overturning tables and breaking windows. The restaurant's owner, Geum Taek-hun, used the 18 million won ($18,000) she received in insurance compensation to remodel the shop. She also changed the name to "Restaura...
2005-05-17 - Woodbury, United States.
Police answering a complaint about parked vehicles blocking Schunnemunk Road outside Kiryas Joel Sunday night came across an unexpected scene at the unoccupied Achdus Summer Homes bungalow colony. There, at around 6:30 p.m., they found an elephant lumbering and prancing for the delight of 400 to 500 people as circus music played through loudspeakers, police Sgt. Cliff Weeks said. Parked in the vicinity were roughly 50 to 70 cars, a tractor-trailer truck, a dozen school buses and a Kiryas Joel fi...
2005-05-08 - Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand.
For years, the sight of mahouts taking their elephants through urban areas in search of food and money has exasperated successive governments. But the solution to this and the illegal trade in elephants, according to the Wildlife Fund Thailand, could lie in new technology: DNA testing.
2005-05-06 - TRIPUNITHURA, India.
The beautification of the tusks of elephants owned by the Cochin Devaswom Board is paving way for another controversy with the Forest Department registering a case against the Devaswom officials. Forest Department has registered a case against three persons, including the expert who beautified the tusks. “Action was taken against the officials because the Cochin Devaswom Board did not seek prior permission of the Forest Department to cut the tusks of the elephants,” said Kamaluddin, Kodanad ...
2005-04-16 - RANGOON, Myanmar.
As military-ruled Burma sinks deeper into economic stagnation, only the country's famed elephants may be assured of jobs. Eighty percent of Burma's 4,000 tame elephants work in the timber industry, moving 700,000 tons of teak and other precious wood for export, which annually brings in more than $300 million. As long as the country depends on the timber industry to get foreign currency, elephants will be crucial, U Aung Myint, an official of a government-owned timber company, recently told the M...
2005-04-04 - Jaipur, India. Anindita Ramaswamy, Sapa-dpa
If you own an elephant and don't know how to keep it happy, you could learn a few lessons from Parbati Barua, Asia's only female "mahout" (elephant handler). Did you know that elephants have a "sour tooth", with a particular liking for tamarind? Or that they enjoy a daily, hour-long massage, preferably in a circular motion with a pumice stone?
2005-01-28 - Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Mark Forbes
The elephants let out a mournful roar with each effort, clearing fallen trees and crushed cars, and exposing more bodies a month after the tsunami swept away much of Banda Aceh. Trained in basic circus tricks, they wrap their trunks around fallen trees or shift small trucks, one pushing, one pulling. Aceh's conservation chief, Andi Basrul, flew back to Banda Aceh the morning after the wall of water struck to find his house gone, along with his wife and son. He reali...
2005-01-20 - Bangkok, Thailand. The Daily Telegraph
Visitors to a Thai elephant camp were treated to a call of nature with a difference yesterday, as five-year-old Diew demonstrated how to use and flush an oversized toilet. The massive but immodest beast had no problem posing for the cameras as he went about his business. Handlers at the camp, in northern Thailand's Chiang Mai province, have previously taught their elephants to paint, dance and play musical instruments. But their latest feat is guaranteed to m...
2005-01-18 - South Carolina, United States. www.thestate.com
Did you hear the one about the elephant that painted a picture and raised $7,000 for tsunami relief? No, Talk isn’t telling elephant jokes here. It’s true. A record $7,000 was bid for the latest artwork by Rasha, the Fort Worth Zoo’s painting elephant, with every cent going to the American Red Cross. The painting drew 51 bids from across the country on eBay, with the winning bid coming from a Texas car dealership. The Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada, liked the ...
2005-01-09 - New Delhi, India. Prerna Singh Bindra
Much before first light, tourists at Khao Lak resort in Thailand were woken up by wails. When they tumbled out in the bitter cold dawn of December 26, they were confronted by the strange sight of agitated elephants, trumpeting. Crying, insist the mahouts, who had never seen the pachyderms behave such. The elephants ran, hurrying, for higher ground and confused, the people followed.
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