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I could have bought 12 elephants with it. – David Kenner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s important to understand that elephants, unlike horses, are not bred to be ridden. They are not domesticated animals and are taken from the wild and kept in awful conditions. – Edwin Wiek	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are extremely happy and grateful to receive this mechanical elephant which will help us to conduct our rituals and festivals in a cruelty-free way, and we hope that other temples will also think about replacing live elephants for rituals. – Rajkumar Namboothiri	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I had my first puff on a joint when I was 24-and-a-half, and I was petrified, i thought I was gonna see elephants. Five, six years later, I’m in Hollywood. I got a little cocaine in my pocket, a couple of quaaludes. I can’t do a little of anything. – James Caan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We included seals, whales, elephants, mice, hummingbirds. We have dinosaurs of different sizes, extinct marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. We have animals that weigh several tons, and animals that are just a few grams. The spread is very big. – Matteo Fabbri	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Guests love it, as you can imagine, but we are very careful to keep them well back from the elephants and very safe. – Andy Hogg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are careful to make sure we don't leave any fruit or food behind the counter for when the elephants come in, during the time that the wild mango fruit is in season, we get elephants in the courtyard and in reception several times a day. It generally happens from late October through mid-December. – Andy Hogg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What philosophy and, more recently, science have understood but the law has not,” Professor Nussbaum writes, “is that elephants are sentient beings who can feel emotion, foster relationships, create communities, and form a conception of the self … This Court has the opportunity to create legal precedent that provides these living creatures the legal right to thrive and survive in ways that coincide with their specific capabilities, and prevent not only the infliction of physical pain, but emotional and psychological injury as well.” – Martha Nussbaum	added by AnaDay 2 years ago
During the war, Gorongosa was essentially the geographic center of the conflict, as a result there were large numbers of soldiers in the area and a lot of associated motivation... to kill elephants and sell the ivory to purchase arms and ammunition. The resulting level of poaching was very intense. – Ryan Long	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Elephants have sort of a toolkit of simple movements, and they can combine these simple movements to complex trajectories, they can adapt to the object you give them. – Michel Milinkovitch	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The most surprising thing for me is that it has taken until 2021 to recognize that giraffes have a complex social system. We have known for decades about other species of socially complex mammal, such as elephants, primates and cetaceans, but it is baffling to me how such a charismatic and well-known species as the giraffe could have been so understudied until recently. – Zoe Muller	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It could be that sharing of food resources by chimpanzees, gorillas and forest elephants in Loango National Park in Gabon result in increased competition and sometimes even in lethal interactions between the two great ape species. – Tobias Deschner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The number of species such as Siberian tigers, Amur leopards, Asian elephants, and crested ibis has increased significantly. – Cui Shuhong	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The ecologically most versatile proboscideans, mostly true elephants which were adapted to consuming various plant resources, survived. – Juha Saarinen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Remarkably for 30 million years, the entire first half of proboscidean evolution, only two of the eight groups evolved, most proboscideans over this time were nondescript herbivores ranging from the size of a pug to that of a boar. A few species got as big as a hippo, yet these lineages were evolutionary dead-ends. They all bore little resemblance to elephants. – Zhang Hanwen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We didn't foresee this result, conservatively, our data refutes some recent claims regarding the role of archaic humans in wiping out prehistoric elephants, ever since big game hunting became a crucial part of our ancestors' subsistence strategy around 1.5 million years ago. – Zhang Hanwen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
[ Lesbian bars ] are an endangered species. Why do you protect the elephants from poachers and habitat destruction ? because they know where the water is. Just like those ancient, patient, wrinkled old grandmother matriarchs, we, too, hold the history of our people. – Whitney Duggins	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I have seen elephants roaming around our town looking for food since I was young, but this is the first time they actually damaged my house. – Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The traditional buffer zones between humans and elephants are gradually disappearing, and the chances of elephants' encountering humans naturally increase greatly. – Zhang Li	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The elephants always take precedence, so our priority is letting them settle in and be undisturbed here and have the whole place to themselves for a while without construction crews, and without disturbance, and without additional elephants even, coming right away. – Michelle Gadd	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We will continue to care for elephants there throughout their lives if they can not be brought up here. – Michelle Gadd	Found on CNN 2 years ago
So our priority is letting them settle in and be undisturbed here and have the whole place to themselves for a while without construction crews, and without disturbance, and without additional elephants even, coming right away. – Michelle Gadd	Found on CNN 2 years ago
More( remains) could be found, these animals lived in herds, they didn't live alone, a little like the herds of elephants we see in Africa today. – Carlos Lopez	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I've seen so many slaughtered, butchered rhinos. What is the solution? for them (poachers) to come when there's lions, elephants ... It's too much risk for that little piece. – Nico Jacobs	Found on Reuters 3 years ago

I could have bought 12 elephants with it.

– David Kenner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s important to understand that elephants, unlike horses, are not bred to be ridden. They are not domesticated animals and are taken from the wild and kept in awful conditions.

– Edwin Wiek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are extremely happy and grateful to receive this mechanical elephant which will help us to conduct our rituals and festivals in a cruelty-free way, and we hope that other temples will also think about replacing live elephants for rituals.

– Rajkumar Namboothiri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I had my first puff on a joint when I was 24-and-a-half, and I was petrified, i thought I was gonna see elephants. Five, six years later, I’m in Hollywood. I got a little cocaine in my pocket, a couple of quaaludes. I can’t do a little of anything.

– James Caan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We included seals, whales, elephants, mice, hummingbirds. We have dinosaurs of different sizes, extinct marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. We have animals that weigh several tons, and animals that are just a few grams. The spread is very big.

– Matteo Fabbri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Guests love it, as you can imagine, but we are very careful to keep them well back from the elephants and very safe.

– Andy Hogg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are careful to make sure we don't leave any fruit or food behind the counter for when the elephants come in, during the time that the wild mango fruit is in season, we get elephants in the courtyard and in reception several times a day. It generally happens from late October through mid-December.

– Andy Hogg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What philosophy and, more recently, science have understood but the law has not,” Professor Nussbaum writes, “is that elephants are sentient beings who can feel emotion, foster relationships, create communities, and form a conception of the self … This Court has the opportunity to create legal precedent that provides these living creatures the legal right to thrive and survive in ways that coincide with their specific capabilities, and prevent not only the infliction of physical pain, but emotional and psychological injury as well.”

– Martha Nussbaum

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

During the war, Gorongosa was essentially the geographic center of the conflict, as a result there were large numbers of soldiers in the area and a lot of associated motivation... to kill elephants and sell the ivory to purchase arms and ammunition. The resulting level of poaching was very intense.

– Ryan Long

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Elephants have sort of a toolkit of simple movements, and they can combine these simple movements to complex trajectories, they can adapt to the object you give them.

– Michel Milinkovitch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The most surprising thing for me is that it has taken until 2021 to recognize that giraffes have a complex social system. We have known for decades about other species of socially complex mammal, such as elephants, primates and cetaceans, but it is baffling to me how such a charismatic and well-known species as the giraffe could have been so understudied until recently.

– Zoe Muller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It could be that sharing of food resources by chimpanzees, gorillas and forest elephants in Loango National Park in Gabon result in increased competition and sometimes even in lethal interactions between the two great ape species.

– Tobias Deschner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The number of species such as Siberian tigers, Amur leopards, Asian elephants, and crested ibis has increased significantly.

– Cui Shuhong

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The ecologically most versatile proboscideans, mostly true elephants which were adapted to consuming various plant resources, survived.

– Juha Saarinen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Remarkably for 30 million years, the entire first half of proboscidean evolution, only two of the eight groups evolved, most proboscideans over this time were nondescript herbivores ranging from the size of a pug to that of a boar. A few species got as big as a hippo, yet these lineages were evolutionary dead-ends. They all bore little resemblance to elephants.

– Zhang Hanwen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We didn't foresee this result, conservatively, our data refutes some recent claims regarding the role of archaic humans in wiping out prehistoric elephants, ever since big game hunting became a crucial part of our ancestors' subsistence strategy around 1.5 million years ago.

– Zhang Hanwen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[ Lesbian bars ] are an endangered species. Why do you protect the elephants from poachers and habitat destruction ? because they know where the water is. Just like those ancient, patient, wrinkled old grandmother matriarchs, we, too, hold the history of our people.

– Whitney Duggins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I have seen elephants roaming around our town looking for food since I was young, but this is the first time they actually damaged my house.

– Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The traditional buffer zones between humans and elephants are gradually disappearing, and the chances of elephants' encountering humans naturally increase greatly.

– Zhang Li

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The elephants always take precedence, so our priority is letting them settle in and be undisturbed here and have the whole place to themselves for a while without construction crews, and without disturbance, and without additional elephants even, coming right away.

– Michelle Gadd

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will continue to care for elephants there throughout their lives if they can not be brought up here.

– Michelle Gadd

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So our priority is letting them settle in and be undisturbed here and have the whole place to themselves for a while without construction crews, and without disturbance, and without additional elephants even, coming right away.

– Michelle Gadd

Found on CNN
2 years ago

More( remains) could be found, these animals lived in herds, they didn't live alone, a little like the herds of elephants we see in Africa today.

– Carlos Lopez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I've seen so many slaughtered, butchered rhinos. What is the solution? for them (poachers) to come when there's lions, elephants ... It's too much risk for that little piece.

– Nico Jacobs

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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