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July 28, 2006

GPS Data Confirms that Elephants are Lazy

There's an ambitious research project underway in Northern Kenya.

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Some 5400 elephants were tagged with GPS locators and their movements tracked. The findings?

    1. Elephants avoid hills
    2. Why? Elephants are big

Earth Shattering!

I completely know how they feel though. After a really big meal and feeling a bit elephantesque, the last thing I want to do is go up an incline.

Click on the link below for the full article from Live Science:
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060724_elephant_climbing.html

April 6, 2008

Elephant paints its own self portrait

Not bad for an elephant!

April 19, 2008

Elephant charges a car

A car gets a little bit too close to this baby elephant.

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