Ancient Mammals Fill Elephant Family Tree

Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News

Moeritherium

Elephants and hyraxes might have later been pushed into more terrestrial habitats, while dugongs and manatees might have already become adapted to salt water.

read it here: Discovery News : Discovery Channel

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de Kleine Waterolifant.

Wat is een kleine waterolifant en … is hij echt?

Kleine waterolifanten leven een verborgen leven in de vele modderige watertjes die de Thaise jungle rijk is. Ze worden niet groter dan zo’n 12 centimeter en ze zijn giftig. Naar verluidt kunnen de olifantjes met hun giftige slachttanden een volwassen man doden.

Grenswetenschap.nl - [ Het mysterie van de Kleine Waterolifant. ]

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How the elephants really do make their trunk calls

An Irish-American scientist reveals how elephants use their feet and trunks to communicate.

By Christina Park
Sunday February 17 2008

Cailtin O'Connell

Oneworld, €22.20

ELEPHANTS can stand on tiptoe -- they can run on tiptoe and hardly make a sound. And they can use their sensitive feet to hear through the ground. You would think such behaviour would have drawn attention before but, as the writer Henry David Thoreau (quoted in this book) points out, "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see".

And Irish-American scientist Dr Caitlin O'Connell, author of The Elephant's Secret Sense, has a keen eye.

Employed in 1992 by the Namibian government to study elephant behaviour, with a view to keeping marauding animals away from farmers' crops, O'Connell soon noticed odd goings-on at a waterhole in Etosha National Park. Elephants would often freeze in tandem, face in one direction and lift one front foot to stand on tiptoe. This ritual always preceded the arrival of another animal or herd. It was as if, O'Connell thought, they were listening through their feet.

How the elephants really do make their trunk calls - Books, Entertainment - Independent.ie

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An elephant that can paint elephants

An elephant that can paint elephants

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Elephantine elephant shrew discovered

There is an exciting new mammal species in the news this week: the gray-faced sengi (Rhyncocyon udzungwensis). This is a record-setting animal, it is the largest known species of shrew, weighing in at a hefty 700 grams (about 1.5 pounds), 50% more than the next largest species.

Elephant shrews are extremely fascinating animals, and the name of the group is relevant to both a misconception and a surprising taxonomic truth about them. In spite of their small furry body form, they are actually more closely related to true elephants than they are to the North American shrews that we know and love. Elephant shrews, along with tenrecs, manatees, elephants, hyraxes, aardvarks, and golden moles, are members of the superorder Afrotheria, which is a mammalian clade distinct from the one that brought us the soricid shrews.

Pondering Pikaia: Elephantine elephant shrew discovered

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stories from Wuppertal: Tuffi the monorail elephant -><- Alice in the Cities

Tuffi was a 3-year-old circus elephant. In 1950, her owner decided that it would be great publicity for Tuffi to take a trip on the monorail. Tuffi, on the other hand, wasn't too keen, broke through the window and jumped out of the car, falling five metres into the river below.

(Tuffi was fine, by the way.)

martyn amos: Tuffi the monorail elephant

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Wim Wenders in Wuppertal: Alice in the Cities

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The cacophony may not have scared the elephants away for good

Jorhat wetlands go off bird radar

- Cracker burst to keep jumbos away puts off avian visitors
PULLOCK DUTTA

Jorhat may be missing its winter guests, but the avian visitors have not abandoned their Nagaon home. A flock of ducks take flight at Jamuna wetland on Thursday. Picture by Eastern Projections

Guwahati, Dec. 6: Assam is having a lean season not only in terms of winter tourists but migratory birds, too.

If violence is keeping tourists away this winter, migratory birds are staying away from one of their favourite seasonal habitats in the state because of the man-elephant conflict.

For the past three months, the forest department and residents of villages in Jorhat district have been bursting crackers regularly to keep rampaging elephant herds at bay. The cacophony may not have scared the elephants away for good, but it has certainly kept winged avian visitors from roosting in the wetlands they used to unfailingly visit until last year.

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast

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Elephant Proof Printmakers

26 Oct—21 Nov 2007

In the Gallery Café

Philippa Merrett, The Pink Elephant – Ajanta, 2007. Hand-coloured etching

Elephant Proof is the name given to a group of artist printmakers from the Saturday printmaking classes at the London College of Communication. This group show includes current students, former students and staff at the college formerly known as The London College of Printing. Many are experienced printmakers who produce work that is diverse in subject matter using techniques such as etching, screen printing and lithography. The London College of Communication has a long tradition of excellence in training students in all methods of print production.

Elephant Proof Printmakers - The Gallery Café - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of Arts


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