Big Foot
This is Mosha. She lost her leg to a landmine on the Thai-Burmese border. Now she has become the first elephant with a working prosthetic leg. [Zooillogix]
Pampered Pachyderms
Check out what goes on in northern India when the temperature drops: The elephants get hot oil massages. Yes, that's right: jumbo beauty treatments. Clip embedded after the jump. [Reuters]
Pachyderms Rise Up Down Under
[Sydney, Australia; January 6. Image via AP]
Elephant Nurses Best Dog Friend Back To Health
When elephants retire to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, it's common for them to befriend a fellow elephant. But one elephant, Tarra, has befriended a dog named Bella.
The Elephant In The Room
Elephants in zoos live less than half as long as their leathery siblings in the wild, according to a new study.
Lindsay's Still In Love; Madge Sues The Mail
- Lindsay Lohan says that she and Samantha Ronson are still going strong, and if they were to break up, we'd hear it from the mouths of babes, or rather, Lindsay's MySpace blog. "all in all-[paparazzi] should just stop asking altogether, once and for all if she and i are broken up because frankly, if we ever ever did….…
Baby Babar
Who wants to see a
newborn baby elephant lolling about in the sand at a German zoo? If you do, click on the pic of a different, equally adorable wee pachyderm. []
Horton Hears A Poo
Elephant dung is
so hot right now: press releases for the upcoming DVD release of are all printed on paper made from recycled . (The paper is meant to impart economic value to Sri Lankan elephants, which are often killed because they compete with local farmers for space.) But it's not just press releases: the dung is…
Happy Hump Day!
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In the past year, poachers in Congo have killed
a fifth of the Savannah elephants in Virguna National Park. In the past ten days alone, Rwandan rebels have killed seven of the elephants in Virunga, along Congo's eastern border with Rwanda and Uganda."We've definitely lost 20 percent of the population this year and…
The Elephant In The Room
What happens when wild elephants BEGIN destroying farms and homes in areas where the human population is encroaching onto the elephants' natural habitat?
Turn other elephants against them! is a group in Indonesia that uses four domesticated and specially trained elephants (2 male and 2 female) to "patrol" villages to…
Is It Time To Leave Yet?
Elephants eat fruits during the round table feeding ceremony Thursday, March 13, 2008 at the ground in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, Thailand. Sixty-nine tamed pachyderms from Ayutthaya elephant camp were brought to take part at the ceremony to celebrate national Elephant Day. — AP
Is It Winter Yet? Check The Panda Poo
Winter is almost here (two days, folks!) and your toes are cold. What about the critters? An article in today's Washington Post explains about how zoo animals deal with cold temperatures. Most beasts adopt the same measures in captivity that they do in the wild: Some grow thicker and longer coats — or like deer,…
Designer Marc Jacobs Is Something Of A Narcissist
- So all that time at the gym bashing John Galliano paid off! Such that Marc Jacobs saw it fit to run nude photos of himself in the latest issue of the tres exclusif magazine Visionaire in honor of his guest editing stint. [WWD, 1st item]
- International Herald Tribune fashion critic Suzy Menkes: "I'm afraid my British…
Our Mother's As Cold-Hearted As Anna Wintour
Once in a while we get emails from our mothers (when we're on speaking terms with them, that is!) about issues of importance in the world, like the genocide in Sudan, the fact that New Orleans is being ignored, and whether Bush 43 is back on the sauce. These emails make us feel bad, mostly because we spend all day…
"Jane" Editor To Cut Her Hair Short, Start Nagging
- Jane Magazine's Brandon Holley got hitched. Like two weeks ago! [Gawker]
- Anna Wintour isn't the only one with a grudge against pachyderms: EBay has got it in for them too. [CNN]
- Angelina Jolie says she's going on hiatus. Wee! This might mean that more biological "blobs" are on the way! [USAToday]
- Veronica Mars dies a…
Vogue Magazine: Oh The Irony Of It All
We just came across this item, which references the horrible Keira Knightley/baby-elephant spread in the new issue of Vogue. For those of you who haven't seen it, the item is essentially a collage of the above image with a handwritten note reading "Maybe if they knew how to accessorize they wouldn't be going extinct?"…
