Sentences with phrase «from wild elephants»

Thailand currently bans the sale of ivory from wild elephants but permits the trade in ivory from captive domestic elephants.

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This elephant was stolen from the wild so she can perform in a traveling show.

The elephant, which strayed into a residential area from a nearby Forest, damaged houses, walls and cars during its wild outing.

Researchers studying 48 wild elephant families played recordings of voices from two ethnic groups with distinct languages in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.

«Wild Sri Lankan elephants retreat from sound of disturbed Asian honey bees.»

Most of the elephants, aside from mother - juvenile pairs, were unrelated and did not live in family groups as wild elephants do.

Most working elephants are caught from the wild — itself a phenomenal feat, for wild Asian elephants are unpredictable, aggressive and fast on their feet, while their strength is beyond belief, and an admonitory slap with the trunk is generally fatal.

Elephants from zoos would stand in for mammoths and mastodons, and herds of buffalo and wild horses are already on hand to step back into their Pleistocene places.

Known from virtually every South and Central American country and major West Indian Islands, Wasmannia auropunctata is a nuisance for crops and agriculture and affects humans, domesticated animals, as well as wild animals like elephants and leopards.

A super-cute theme of elephants, giraffes, and lions in brown and ivory gives this Safari Footie and Bib Set from Little Me a hand - drawn look and a wild charm.

But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes.

Born to Be Wild, through the narration of Morgan Freeman, focuses on baby elephants and orangutans who are protected from birth and raised in captivity until they can safely be released back into the wWild, through the narration of Morgan Freeman, focuses on baby elephants and orangutans who are protected from birth and raised in captivity until they can safely be released back into the wildwild.

One Lucky Elephant (Unrated) Poignant, pachyderm - whisperer documentary examining the end of the relationship of the ailing owner of a traveling circus and the orphaned, 18 year - old elephant he'd rescued in the wild and raised practically from birth.

This fantastical assemblage, like something from a Mad Max movie, would scoop up everything in its way: predators such as lions and cheetahs, lumbering endangered herbivores such as rhinos and elephants, herds of impala and wildebeest, family groups of warthogs and wild dogs.

In Borneo, there's an impressive eco-tourism industry where you can climb Mt. Kinabalu, view pygmy elephants in the wild, and watch the human - like proboscis monkeys swinging from vines in the jungle as you head down the river in a small boat.

The retirement enclaves of Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia offer not only well - appointed villas with modern kitchens and private swimming pools — some are only a short drive away from wild pygmy elephants, monkeys swinging in the trees, and the world's most spectacular beaches.

«From the beginning animal protection groups have said that the zoos» purported concern about saving rhinos was just a cover for buying wild elephants.

The Trump Administration's FWS will issue permits to allow imports of trophies taken from elephants and lions hunted down in the wild.

St. Francis Wolf Sanctuary: September 2012: 64 - 65 Houston Zoo, Saving the Orangutan: October 2012: 64 - 65 Saving the Lions: November 2012: 62 - 64 Saving Lives in Central America: December 2012: 60 - 61 Saving Sea Turtles: Jan / Feb 2013: 62 - 63 Saving the Borneo Elephants: March 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation Corner: April 2013: 64 - 65 Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative: May 2013: 62 - 63 Conservation Corner: June 2013: 64 - 65 Protecting the Ethiopian Wolves: July 2013: 66 - 67 Saving Rhinos from Extinction: August 2013: 62 - 63 Saving Animals from Extinction: September 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation of the African Painted Dog: October 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation of Chimpanzees: November 2013: 64 - 65 Conserving Attwater's Prairie Chickens: December 2013: 64 - 65 Traveling to See Animals in the Wild with the Houston Zoo: Jan / Feb 2014: 64 - 65 Blue Billed Curassow Conservation: March 2014: 62 - 63 Houston Toad Conservation: May 2014: 60 - 61 Lion Conservation: June 2014: 58 - 61 Giant Armadillo Conservation Project in Brazil: July 2014: 58 - 59 Conserving the Gorillas: August 2014: 58 - 59

Would love to experience the wild and it would be a first vacation since those we did back in school.The chance to meet the animals we took our surname (elephant) from would be a great honour.

Additionally, removing the elephant from the wild is NOT necessary.

From an open safari vehicle, observe wildlife of all sorts — from leopards and elephants to wild dogs and impaFrom an open safari vehicle, observe wildlife of all sorts — from leopards and elephants to wild dogs and impafrom leopards and elephants to wild dogs and impalas.

Aside from rhino the reserve has over 340 species of bird, a large and healthy elephant population, cheetah, hippo, hyena, jackal, giraffe and wild dog.

More than two years after his last «house call» from The Marine Mammal Center, elephant seal Green Tie has been spotted again in the wild.

And following the world's biggest ever translocation of elephants, wonderfully wild and rugged Nkhotakota became home to 500 elephants translocated from Majete and Liwonde.

However, aside from the Orangutans, there are almost seven other species of primates and wild animals including elephants, rhinos, tigers, and even leopards.

During the rainy season, the Kennedy Vlei is littered with flamboyant colours from the seasonal wild flowers that emerge as the first rains begin and, as the grass dries out, large herds of buffalo, zebra and elephant are in abundance.

This surreal intervention was drawn from an incident in Mysore in 2011 in which two wild elephants went on a rampage killing a man and several cows.

From 2002 to 2006, 4 of every 10 dead elephants were killed by poachers, but today, poachers are responsible for 8 of 10 elephant deaths in Africa, where the animals are a threatened species, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which the United States has signed.

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The company supports the Born Free Foundation, which protects wild elephants from poachers and opposes their use in zoos and circuses, as well as Tusk, a charity that funds community - based projects in Africa to conserve wildlife and alleviate poverty.