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For them (poachers) to come when there's lions, elephants ... It's too much risk for that little piece. – Nico Jacobs	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Elephants are like our family members. If they are eating well, sleeping well, that makes me happy. – Somkit Methachotikul	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Hunting elephants may not be a standard tool of sustainable use of natural resources, or the best method of alleviating the problem of human-wildlife conflict, but I do not see a problem if the hunting is done in a proper, ethical and above-board manner. – Neil Fitt	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Elephants have killed a lot of people and destroyed livelihoods. I think government is doing the right thing in reducing their numbers. – Tiro Segosebe	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's got an earthy, grassy-type flavor, depending on where we collect the botanicals or which elephants we collect botanicals from, the gin flavor is going to change slightly. – Paula Ansley	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm very happy to see them and they are very cute. I love elephants because it dances very cute. – Patcharamon Sukpiromsunti	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The highlight is not only handing out presents, but also students and elephants are forming a Christmas tree together. – Lardthongtare Meepan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Nyoni and his accomplices' consignment is worth 4 billion shillings ($1.74 million) and involved the killing of 117 elephants going back to 2015 and earlier. – Hamisi Kigwangalla	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The arrest of Nyoni has brought us to a stage where we can say we have taken into custody all the hardcore poachers on our wanted list, except for a few who have left the country, nyoni and his accomplices' consignment is worth 4 billion shillings ($1.74 million) and involved the killing of 117 elephants going back to 2015 and earlier. – Hamisi Kigwangalla	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are talking about a few tens of thousands of giraffes, and we talk about a few hundreds of thousands of African elephants. So we need to be careful. – Tom De Meulenaer	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The giraffe is in the wild much rarer than African elephants, much rarer, we are talking about a few tens of thousands of giraffes, and we talk about a few hundreds of thousands of African elephants. So we need to be careful. – Tom De Meulenaer	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A bullhook is an outdated, circus-style training tool that resembles a fireplace poker and is used to inflict pain and punishment on elephants. – Nicole Paquette	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's like a war between ants and elephants. – Xu Caiyuan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Buddhist kings show possession of white elephants as a proof of their legitimacy, legitimate kings effortlessly attract white elephants from all corners of the kingdom. These elephants willingly submit to the authority of kings out of recognition of their moral strength. – Edoardo Siani	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is probably just as difficult for our elephants. We know that elephants grieve. They are intensely social, and weve seen some pretty dramatic responses from the rest of our herd. – Rob Shumaker	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This study potentially establishes a link between a human pathological condition and the skin of African elephants, strikingly, we show strong similarities between the normal skin morphology of African elephants and that of humans affected by' ichthyosis vulgaris,' a common genetic disorder affecting about 1 in 250 people that is known to impact shedding of the skin and cause dry, scaly skin. – Michel Milinkovitch	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The variation in the timing, space use, age and sex of problem elephants suggest hunting will have a limited effect on solving human-elephant conflict. – Mike Chase	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Hunting occurs in the dry season and targets large bulls, while elephant crop raiding coincides with the rainy season and the perpetrators tend to be young bulls or family herds, the variation in the timing, space use, age and sex of problem elephants suggest hunting will have a limited effect on solving human-elephant conflict. – Mike Chase	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Ours would look pretty much just like modern elephants if they were alive today although the Cuvieronius had spiral tusks, their legs might be a bit stubbier, but themain difference from elephants is in their molar teeth, reflectinga diet more based on browsing than that of modern elephants. – Peter Houde	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We want to change the demand from elephant riding and elephant shows toward activities that are elephant-friendly, such as observing elephants, if you can ride or have a selfie with the animal, chances are that is cruel to the animal. – Jan Schmidt-Burbach	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We wouldn't bulldoze the city of Bristol because it was built on the profits of slavery, is it really sensible to think that by destroying or stopping the trade in our cultural heritage we're going to save any African elephants? – Mark Dodgson	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Michael Jackson tweeted on March 26. The controversy over the condition of the elephant has gone all the way to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The socialist leader said that Ruperta’s condition is due to old age and that the claim that she is underfed is a conspiracy driven by enemies of the state trying to demoralize the country and, especially, children. Ruperta is 46 years old, middle aged for an African elephant that typically live to age 65 or 70. Maribel Garcia, the animal rights activist who first sounded the alarms on Ruperta’s health, told Fox News that for too long the elephant had been eating just pumpkins and some grass. The elephant should be weighing 7 tons, Maribel Garcia explained, but Maribel Garcia is currently at just 4. Elephants feed on carrots, grass, vegetables, fruits and bamboo leaves, we believe that the diet of just pumpkins and the absence of her veterinarian who has treated her for more than 10 years influenced the elephant to be in that state. – Maribel Garcia	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I felt as a photographer to progress in my career, to fulfill my ambitions, I had to work on a very long-term documentary project, i'd heard of these stories in National Geographic; some guy lived in the jungle for seven years or he spent time with African elephants for five years. I wanted something long term. – Bashar Alaeddin	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We may do well to be attentive to the good and the bad vibrations in life. Since elephants use their feet to listen to vibrations and thus capture significant codes of impending peril, they might coach humans and teach them how to become “surefooted” in hazardous times. Keeping feet on the ground, however, should not hinder us from flying high and reaching soaring heights. ("Trompe le pied.") – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 7 years ago

For them (poachers) to come when there's lions, elephants ... It's too much risk for that little piece.

– Nico Jacobs

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Elephants are like our family members. If they are eating well, sleeping well, that makes me happy.

– Somkit Methachotikul

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Hunting elephants may not be a standard tool of sustainable use of natural resources, or the best method of alleviating the problem of human-wildlife conflict, but I do not see a problem if the hunting is done in a proper, ethical and above-board manner.

– Neil Fitt

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Elephants have killed a lot of people and destroyed livelihoods. I think government is doing the right thing in reducing their numbers.

– Tiro Segosebe

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's got an earthy, grassy-type flavor, depending on where we collect the botanicals or which elephants we collect botanicals from, the gin flavor is going to change slightly.

– Paula Ansley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm very happy to see them and they are very cute. I love elephants because it dances very cute.

– Patcharamon Sukpiromsunti

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The highlight is not only handing out presents, but also students and elephants are forming a Christmas tree together.

– Lardthongtare Meepan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Nyoni and his accomplices' consignment is worth 4 billion shillings ($1.74 million) and involved the killing of 117 elephants going back to 2015 and earlier.

– Hamisi Kigwangalla

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The arrest of Nyoni has brought us to a stage where we can say we have taken into custody all the hardcore poachers on our wanted list, except for a few who have left the country, nyoni and his accomplices' consignment is worth 4 billion shillings ($1.74 million) and involved the killing of 117 elephants going back to 2015 and earlier.

– Hamisi Kigwangalla

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are talking about a few tens of thousands of giraffes, and we talk about a few hundreds of thousands of African elephants. So we need to be careful.

– Tom De Meulenaer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The giraffe is in the wild much rarer than African elephants, much rarer, we are talking about a few tens of thousands of giraffes, and we talk about a few hundreds of thousands of African elephants. So we need to be careful.

– Tom De Meulenaer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A bullhook is an outdated, circus-style training tool that resembles a fireplace poker and is used to inflict pain and punishment on elephants.

– Nicole Paquette

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's like a war between ants and elephants.

– Xu Caiyuan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Buddhist kings show possession of white elephants as a proof of their legitimacy, legitimate kings effortlessly attract white elephants from all corners of the kingdom. These elephants willingly submit to the authority of kings out of recognition of their moral strength.

– Edoardo Siani

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is probably just as difficult for our elephants. We know that elephants grieve. They are intensely social, and weve seen some pretty dramatic responses from the rest of our herd.

– Rob Shumaker

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This study potentially establishes a link between a human pathological condition and the skin of African elephants, strikingly, we show strong similarities between the normal skin morphology of African elephants and that of humans affected by' ichthyosis vulgaris,' a common genetic disorder affecting about 1 in 250 people that is known to impact shedding of the skin and cause dry, scaly skin.

– Michel Milinkovitch

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The variation in the timing, space use, age and sex of problem elephants suggest hunting will have a limited effect on solving human-elephant conflict.

– Mike Chase

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Hunting occurs in the dry season and targets large bulls, while elephant crop raiding coincides with the rainy season and the perpetrators tend to be young bulls or family herds, the variation in the timing, space use, age and sex of problem elephants suggest hunting will have a limited effect on solving human-elephant conflict.

– Mike Chase

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Ours would look pretty much just like modern elephants if they were alive today although the Cuvieronius had spiral tusks, their legs might be a bit stubbier, but themain difference from elephants is in their molar teeth, reflectinga diet more based on browsing than that of modern elephants.

– Peter Houde

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We want to change the demand from elephant riding and elephant shows toward activities that are elephant-friendly, such as observing elephants, if you can ride or have a selfie with the animal, chances are that is cruel to the animal.

– Jan Schmidt-Burbach

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We wouldn't bulldoze the city of Bristol because it was built on the profits of slavery, is it really sensible to think that by destroying or stopping the trade in our cultural heritage we're going to save any African elephants?

– Mark Dodgson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Michael Jackson tweeted on March 26. The controversy over the condition of the elephant has gone all the way to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The socialist leader said that Ruperta’s condition is due to old age and that the claim that she is underfed is a conspiracy driven by enemies of the state trying to demoralize the country and, especially, children. Ruperta is 46 years old, middle aged for an African elephant that typically live to age 65 or 70. Maribel Garcia, the animal rights activist who first sounded the alarms on Ruperta’s health, told Fox News that for too long the elephant had been eating just pumpkins and some grass. The elephant should be weighing 7 tons, Maribel Garcia explained, but Maribel Garcia is currently at just 4. Elephants feed on carrots, grass, vegetables, fruits and bamboo leaves, we believe that the diet of just pumpkins and the absence of her veterinarian who has treated her for more than 10 years influenced the elephant to be in that state.

– Maribel Garcia

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I felt as a photographer to progress in my career, to fulfill my ambitions, I had to work on a very long-term documentary project, i'd heard of these stories in National Geographic; some guy lived in the jungle for seven years or he spent time with African elephants for five years. I wanted something long term.

– Bashar Alaeddin

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We may do well to be attentive to the good and the bad vibrations in life. Since elephants use their feet to listen to vibrations and thus capture significant codes of impending peril, they might coach humans and teach them how to become “surefooted” in hazardous times. Keeping feet on the ground, however, should not hinder us from flying high and reaching soaring heights. ("Trompe le pied.")

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
7 years ago

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