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The singer-songwriter Morrissey has called for a sick elephant to be relocated from a zoo in Manila to an animal sanctuary. He made the request ahead of playing a concert in the Philippines.
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Cape Town -
A man from Milnerton, Cape Town has been charged with the illegal possesion of elephant tusks and ivory products worth an estimated R10 million or approximately $1.3 million USD.
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Amsterdam -
A visionary vet has given an elephant at Amsterdam's Artis Zoo the ability to see again, thanks to an ingenious "eye"-dea: contact lenses.
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Chhouk, a now 5-year-old bull elephant rescued in 2007 in the Cambodian jungle, was profiled recently by NBC News; alone and helpless after a chunk of his left front foot at least six inches long was lost to a poacher's trap, he almost died.
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An animal welfare organization has filed a complaint in an effort to have a 54-year-old circus elephant, who was filmed after she collapsed while being loaded onto a train car, taken off of the road.
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Paignton -
Duchess, the much-loved and popular African elephant at Devon's Paignton Zoo in south west England, is being treated for the eye disease glaucoma.
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Anne, the circus elephant who was seen on video being kicked and struck with a pitchfork, has been moved to a new home at a safari park.
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Polebrook -
A hidden camera has recorded footage of circus workers in the UK kicking a 57-year-old elephant, and striking her with a metal pitchfork.
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The oldest elephant in North America, Taj, died at a theme park in California. Taj was 71 years old, and died after years of performing for crowds and even painting on canvas.
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Kyoto -
A team of scientists say they now have developed a process that will enable them to clone the mammoth and that the creature which has been extinct for 10,000 years may well walk the earth again in five years.
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A rescue attempt to help elephants in Gorangosa National Park.
 News that an endangered Asian elephant at the Calgary Zoo is pregnant is raising concern about elephant herpes and the health of the calf.
London exhibition of works of art by elephants and apes
Vast trails of seven-million-year-old fossilised footprints reveal the "social structure" of prehistoric elephants, say scientists.
A mysterious bony growth found in elephants' feet is actually a sixth "toe" that helps to support their enormous weight, scientists report.
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