elephants
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If You Slept Like A Wild Elephant You’d Be Dead
You probably need anywhere from seven to ten hours of sleep a night. But if you’re someone who especially enjoys a full night of shuteye, just be thankful you aren’t an elephant.
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Kenya Torched 5 Per Cent Of The World’s Stockpiled Ivory
Over the weekend, Kenya set ablaze 105 tonnes of stockpiled ivory in a measure designed to discourage the poaching of elephants and rhinoceros in the country. The blaze was the biggest of its kind in history.
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A Journalist Used An Artificial Tusk To Track The Illegal Ivory Trade
Tracking the movement of ivory through the nebulous, international black market is extraordinarily difficult. But we need to start doing a better job of it if we want to stamp out the illegal trade that claims 100 elephant lives every day. One journalist’s solution? Build the world’s most convincing fake tusk, and stick a tracking…
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Elephants Can Sense Rainstorms From 240km Away
Elephants are amazing creatures for a lot of reasons. The latest one to be confirmed by science? They can sense rainstorms from 240km away. What’s more amazing is that researchers think they do it by simply listening to the sound of the air.