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On Anderson Cooper 360° last week, there was a brief video of a elephant painting a picture in Thailand as part of a show geared towards tourists. I wonder if this is a new trick? When I was in Chiang Mai a few years back, we went to Mae Taeng ...

A sad, sad story right out of my backyard. Looks like keeping elephants around isn't as easy as it might seem. Turns out they eat a lot and need lots of room to roam. Who knew? And so it goes at the Bronx zoo where officials there have decided that ...

Here's one quirky thing about Bangkok. In the Nana red-light district, it's not surprising to see go-go dancers next to an elephant handler. Each night, you'll find on average half a dozen elephants roaming the streets of Bangkok. Their handlers, ...

A pretty interesting story about how farmers in Africa are using chilies to ward off elephants to protect their crops. Turns out the pesky pachyderms haven't acquired a taste for hot stuff, and so in the Zambezi valley in southern Zambia, the ...

Interesting news for sea mammal lovers. Check this out. A rogue elephant seal nicknamed Nibbles ran rampant near the mouth of the Russian River and killed a dozen harbor seals. He also bit a surfer and jumped out of the water to attack a pit bull ...

When Jeremy Allen McGill set out in China's "Wild Elephant Valley" nature reserve yesterday, he was probably just hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the magnificant beasts. But McGill got that and a lot more -- for unknown reasons, an elephant used ...

I've whipped out my International Calendar to see what might be left to tell about November before it slips away from Eastern Standard Time in a few hours. What I see is a whole lot of independence days and a slew of other politically geared ...

A few weeks ago I commented on Shoba Narayan's rather stuck-up dispatch about elephant and tiger watching in India that appeared in the Washington Post. These types of treks for the rich are nice and all, I thought, but what happens when nature acts ...

Carol Batrus decided to accept a job with a non-profit in Zululand when things were headed nowhere for her in the States. With no special training from her prior jobs on Wall Street and in the medical industry, Batrus headed to Africa to ...

When I was a kid, I was COMPLETELY fascinated by the Loch Ness Monster.  The thought that a real-live brontosaurus might still be swimming around in an inky Scottish lake consumed me.  And if I'm honest, there's a part of the legend that ...

Pull up a chair and start placing your bets -- it's about to get ugly. No, really, the elephant seals will be gathering soon at Año Nuevo State Park in California for their breeding season. (And have you seen one before?) All nose and gut, ...

Six a.m. and the sea is clouded by a morning mist, making the always mysterious-looking Elephant Island appear evermore ... mysterious. Its sharp rocky peaks climb out of the Southern Ocean in inverted Vs; the tide is high, washing out the few ...

Ghana is not a big tourism magnet. Unlike other African countries that offer wild safaris and impressive archaeological remains, this West African nation has relatively few attractions to offer international visitors. But that's changing under a new ...

From National Geographic News:  The Bronx Zoo is the most recent of zoos making the decision to discontinue elephant exhibits.   Officials at the zoo decided to close the exhibit for the benefit of their three current elephant ...

When travelers think about Nepal, the first thing that comes to mind is the towering peaks of the Himalaya and some of the best trekking on the planet. The tiny mountain kingdom is the home of Mt. Everest and the Annapurna Circuit, but many visitors ...