4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Dedicated keepers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Nairobi Elephant Nursery in Kenya protect baby Shukuru from the cold and rain, and the risk of pneumonia, with a custom-made raincoat. Sheldrick is fourth-generation Kenya-born and has spent the better part of her life tending wild animals.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. The fatality is one in a string of animal deaths in recent years. In November 2008, a virus killed a 15-month-old Asian elephant calf named Malti. Tags: zoos welfare violations animal welfare.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Empathy Among Elephants. by Marc Bekoff.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild. And Kenya boasts a unique orphanage … for elephants! At the London Zoo, three female gorillas gussy up for a visit from a handsome male gorilla brought in from nearby France.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. This game reserve has 900 elephants – the second largest population in South Africa, after the Kruger National Park with 13,000. The others follow, some dozen animals in all. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. Sniffing us.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”.

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