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Stone Age elephant remains foundThe skeleton was found at the site of a new station Construction work on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) in Kent has unearthed the 400,000-year-old remains of an elephant. The skeleton was found on the site of the new Ebbsfleet station, an area thought to be an early Stone Age site. Bones from other large animals, including rhinoceros, buffalo and wild horses, have also been found nearby. The remains were preserved in muddy sediment near what was once the edge of a small lake, a spokesman said. The elephant, which has been identified as a...

Swedish man files complaint against circus elephant This story was published Wednesday, May 19th, 2004 The Associated Press STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The father of a 10-year-old boy filed a police complaint after a circus elephant trampled his child's bicycle, a police spokesman said Wednesday. Dennis Horvath parked his bicycle close to the elephant compound at the Cirkus Mustang in Finspaang, 110 miles southwest of the capital, Stockholm, Tuesday to watch as the circus came to town. While he watched the parade, one of the elephants in the pen used his trunk to pick up the bicycle for a closer...

Elephant kills three in Nepal 20/02/2004 - 10:17:42 Three people were trampled to death by wild elephants while collecting firewood in western Nepal, a local newspaper reported. Two others, including a five-year old girl, were injured in the incident, The Rising Nepal newspaper said. The three ? aged 42, 35, and 28 ? were killed while collecting wood near Arjundhara village, around 310 miles west of the capital, Kathmandu.

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AUCKLAND (Reuters) - An elephant briefly escaped from New Zealand's Auckland zoo on Friday after dropping a log on an electrified fence and crashing through a gate. Twenty-year-old Burma, one of two elephants at the zoo, was free for about half an hour, forcing some road closures during the morning commuter rush, but posed no threat to people and did no damage to any other property. The 2.8-tonAsian elephant, which stands about two-and-a-half meters (eight feet) tall, was found in a park behind the zoo and keepers walked her back to her enclosure to join the other elephant. "When the...

False teeth for Thai elephantFrom correspondents in Bangkok January 7, 2004 AN aging elephant in Thailand has gotten a new lease on life after a veterinarian fitted the animal with custom-made dentures, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Morakot, an 80-year-old pachyderm in captivity at a park in the western province of Kanchanaburi, had been unable to chew her food because she had lost her teeth, the Bangkok Post quoted Dr. Somsak Jitniyom saying. Kept alive with injected saline solution, vitamins and antibiotics, she had become so weak she had collapsed four times and needed to be supported by a sling of...

All her life, Heather Uber loved adventure and the outdoors, so when her older daughter joined the Peace Corps and moved to the West African nation of Cameroon in September 2002, Uber eagerly made plans to travel there. But that visit ended tragically Thursday morning when Uber, a 55-year old mother of four, was killed by a rampaging elephant while visiting a wildlife park with her husband and daughter. Uber, of Point Breeze, suffered internal injuries when she was knocked down by the elephant, which suddenly charged at the group from a distance of about 40 feet, said Ned Uber....

ELEPHANT / **** (R) November 7, 2003 BY ROGER EBERT Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" is a record of a day at a high school like Columbine, on the day of a massacre much like the one that left 13 dead. It offers no explanation for the tragedy, no insights into the psyches of the killers, no theories about teenagers or society or guns or psychopathic behavior. It simply looks at the day as it unfolds, and that is a brave and radical act; it refuses to supply reasons and assign cures, so that we can close the case and move...

Mary the Elephant. The town considered guns, electrocution and dismemberment before setting on hanging. There's A Skeleton In A Trainyard In East TennesseeBY JOAN VANNORSDALL SCHROEDER It was 1916, and things were changing fast. World War I raged in Europe. Dadaism, ripe with comic derision and irrationality, took hold in artistic circles. Freeform jazz took hold of the American music scene. Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic. It was a good year for scapegoats. It was a good year to hang an elephant.

My fellow FReeper, if you aren't informed about the elephant incident, you need to be. How will people think you're informed if you don't find this? I checked this morning and didn't see it here in the forum. I checked this afternoon, and nothing. Not in 'search' or in the side bar. We must stay cutting edge when it comes to hold-muh-beer moments such as this. I am very proud of the way GW reacted when he encountered the elephant incident. He had no 'party boy' wit. He is too straight laced a guy. So is his wife. While many...

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Harry Manners and Wally Johnson began elephant hunting in partnership in Mozambique in 1937, and both used off-the-shelf Winchesters (Harry owned four during his lifetime, one of which having a ‘bull-barrel’, which he discarded on the grounds of it being too heavy), both used only Kynoch 300-grain solids, and both averred that this rifle/cartridge combination was all that any professional ivory hunter ever needed. They were both expert shots and could place their bullets accurately from any angle for brain-shots on elephant, but both used shoulder shots when these were convenient, alleging that this was the largest and safest target....

HANOI, Vietnam -- A drunk Vietnamese tourist who ran into an elephant he didn't see standing in the street was injured when the animal picked him up and tossed him aside, an official said Monday. Vu Quang Phuc, 39, was rushed to a hospital after Saturday's attack, said the official of Buon Don tourist site in Daklak province, some 220 miles northeast of Ho Chi Minh City.

MANILA (Reuters) - A runaway Thai elephant brought chaos and cheers to the streets of Manila on Thursday until a passing beer truck helped herd him back to an animal show. Children cheered the elephant as police kept back crowds trying to catch a glimpse of an animal not native to the Philippines, let alone the traffic-clogged streets of Manila. 'The elephant crossed over a fence and just ran away during a practice. This is unusual since Jumbo is obedient,' said one handler at the 10-elephant show. Organizers credited the driver of a San Miguel beer delivery truck for eventually...

PARIS - Cecile de Brunhoff, the inspiration for Babar, the enchanting little elephant whose adventures captivated generations of children, has died in Paris. She was 99. De Brunhoff suffered a stroke Saturday night and died Monday in a hospital in Paris, where she lived, said Mathieu de Brunhoff, one of her sons. She first invented the tale of a little elephant as a bedtime story for her boys in 1931. They in turn told their father, painter Jean de Brunhoff, who illustrated the story and filled in details, naming the elephant Babar and creating Celeste, Zephir and the "Old Lady,"...

Scientists from the Novosibirsk center of virology and biotechnology 'Vector' discovered a living cell in the remains of a mammoth excavated from the ice, and believe it could be suitable for cloning the Ice Age mammal. Oleg Taranov, a researcher from the center, arrived in Yakutsk, the capital of the Russian northeastern republic of Yakutia, Tuesday to report the results to his colleagues at the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North. Last summer a joint team of Russian and Japanese scientists mounted an expedition into Russia's far north with the expressed aim of trying to bring a mammoth back...

Animal Rights activists are baffling police in Germany after going on the run with a circus elephant. A national hunt was launched earlier this week following Kenia's abduction from Karl-Heinz Koellner's Harlekin circus. The animal was taken from a site near Dessau in central Germany where the circus is spending a winter break. Local police spokesman Marcus Benedix told German DAP: "It's hard to hide an elephant. We still have several places in mind where we'll look." The circus has been under attack for months from animal-lovers who say the animals were mistreated and underfed. Its other elephant, Rani, suffered...

THE CASE OF THE MISSING ELEPHANT The ruins and remains of Mexico's pre-Columbian civilizations enchant, intrigue, fascinate and puzzle. Of them the oldest and earliest, that of people referred-to as Olmecs, is the most enigmatic -- for they challenge present-day scholars to explain how had people from Africa come and settled and thrived in this part of the New World, thousands of years before Columbus. The Discovery We know how they looked because they left behind countless sculptures, marvelously carved in stone, depicting them; some, in fact, are stone portraits of Olmec leaders; colossal in size, they immortalize in...

Reports on radio stations,in newspapers and on television flooded across the land in the middle of the week 12 days before Christmas Eve. Is an Oregon political savoir about to be born? Let us tally the signs and portents. He resides in the holy city of Salem, namesake descendant of the equally holy (and even more political) city of Jeru-Salem...(snip) For Complete Article, Click Here.