2008-07-17 - Toronto, Canada , Ben Kaplan

This year the Pirelli Calendar has 52 pages of what you might call the elephant metaphor. The entire ecology of the elephant is more similar to us [and our fate] than any other animal – adapting to the damage we both cause eating sand cookies, while elephants eat wood. It seems we are next. This feeling is portrayed in Africa, in the Okavanga Swamp area, with African elephants of circus background and dangerous-looking humorous sittings, with lots of beauty thanks to the outstanding top ten mo...

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20 years on Internet!

ELEPHANT NEWS was created on 2001 in Munich, and relaunched in Phnom Penh in 2020, with almost 8 000 links to news articles about elephants on the Internet

A number of articles now also have a cross reference to the elephant database, either for individuals elephants and/or to an article about the location holding

In the right column, you can also see if an elephant has birthday today, and follow the link to more facts!