Elephant Tusk Surgery

Posted by Queuebot in Animal, Medicine, Video Clips on September 29, 2009 at 6:23 pm

If you think about it, an elephant’s tusk is a big tooth. And like any tooth, a tusk can break or otherwise get damaged and the elephant would then need to see a dentist (shudder!). That’s exactly what happened in the North Carolina Zoo.

But how exactly does one operate on an elephant’s tusk? Dainty dental equipments surely aren’t enough…  Enter Dr. Gary Spodnick and his power tools!

Disclaimer:  This version of the video, although no blood is spilled, may be disturbing to some viewers, since the power tools are shown in use on the animal.

Link – via myfox8

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Happy Elephant Appreciation Day!

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal on September 22, 2009 at 8:51 am

September 22nd is Elephant Appreciation Day, celebrated since 1996. The official website has many suggestions for ways to celebrate the holiday, but you can use your imagination to honor elephants in your own way. Tell elephant jokes, send an ecard, watch elephant videos on YouTube, or make a donation to one of the many organizations dedicated to the care and protection of the world’s largest land mammal. Link -via mental_floss

(image credit: Flickr user Carmelo Aquilina)

 
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Elephant Car Wash

Posted by Alex in Animal, Car & Vehicle on July 12, 2009 at 1:38 pm

Forget bikini car wash! The new hotness in raising money in today’s tough economy is … elephant car wash!

The elephants at the Wildlife Safari near Eugene, Oregon are fundraising and they don’t seem to mind. The safari’s three African elephants, Tiki, Alice, and George, have a job at the new "Elephant Car Wash".

For $20, visitors can have an up-close-and-personal encounter with the elephants as they wash down their car.

There’s no guarantee that your car will actually get cleaned, but hey, everybody seems to be having fun!

Link (with self-starting video)

 
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Frogs Species Discovered Living in Elephant Dung

Posted by Queuebot in Animal, Science & Tech on June 13, 2009 at 1:11 pm

Sure it’s stinky, but a frog has got to live somewhere! Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, a research fellow from the National University of Singapore discovered 3 species of frogs living in elephant dung in Sri Lanka:

Campos-Arceiz examined 290 elephant dung piles and found six frog individuals in five dung piles, representing three species: the ornate narrow-mouthed frog Microhyla ornata, another narrow-mouthed species Microhyla rubra, and a frog species in the Sphaerotheca genus.

While Campos-Arceiz is uncertain why the frogs were residing in the elephant dung, he speculates that “elephant dung provides a good shelter. I found the frogs in an arid area during the dry season. Under such conditions and in the absence of litter, elephant dung is probably a good alternative to spend the day in. Elephants digest food very poorly. Their feces contain a large proportion of undigested material and are highly fibrous. When fresh, elephant dung is humid and probably cooler than the environment during the day. Moreover, frogs could eat some of the many invertebrates present in elephant dung.”

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Wildlife Photography Rule No.1: Don't Forget To Look Behind You!

Posted by Queuebot in Animal, Pictures on June 11, 2009 at 3:39 pm


Photo: Tim Greenleaf / National Geographic Expeditions

When Ford Cochran, National Geographic Blog Wild editor, asks Nat Geo photographer Tim Greenleaf for some advice, here’s what he has to say:

When I stopped by his office this morning to pick it up, he asked if I’d seen this photo he shot in view of Mount Kilimanjaro during a visit to Kenya’s Amboseli National Park.

“Photography rule number one,” he admonished. “Don’t forget to look behind you!”

In fairness, Tim noted that the photographer and videographer above might have been filming, say, Amboseli’s deeply endangered lions rather than the elephants. But still.

Link

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The Elephant Padlock

Posted by Queuebot in Gadget, Home & Garden, Pictures on May 16, 2009 at 11:54 am

Crooked Brains blog has a very spiffy collection of antique and unusual padlocks, from back in the days where any household item was an opportunity for showing off craftmanship.

Link – via somethinbeautiful

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Anti-Elephant Begging Graffiti

Posted by Alex in Animal, Arts & Crafts, Crime & Law, Pictures, Politics on May 10, 2009 at 1:18 pm

Australian artist Brooke Bobridge, who is currently living in Bangkok, Thailand, took a series of graffiti by local and international artists imploring passer-bys NOT to feed the elephants. They want to discourage "elephant begging" where the pachyderms are used to part tourists from their dollars (or technically, bahts).

Link – via amy sol blog

 
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Water Skiing Elephant

Posted by Alex in Animal, Video Clips on April 17, 2009 at 1:36 pm

If this isn’t history’s most awesome video clip of an elephant in action, then I don’t know what is … Behold the water skiing elephant which performed for the 1959 Pittsburgh Bicentennial regatta.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Canucklehead

 
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Jumbo Air Landing

Posted by Ali S. in Animal, Video Clips on April 1, 2009 at 6:28 pm


[YouTube - Link]

Here is a really neat PSA from the “International Fund for Animal Welfare” from Germany concerning the trafficking and buying of products made from protected and endangered animals such as the Elephant. Air Dumbo now landing!

 
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Elephant and Dog

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Video Clips on January 7, 2009 at 12:54 pm


(YouTube link)

A lovely story about an elephant and a dog who found each other at the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee. -via Arbroath

 
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GPS Elephant Drawing

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures, Travel & Places on December 24, 2008 at 1:41 am

Jeremy Wood of GPS Drawing has a large canvas: the world. He uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to record and render his movement into a drawing on a map.

I’m particularly fond of this 11.2 km (about 7 mi.) long GPS elephant in the streets of Brighton and Hove, UK: Link – via Forum, original post by lilrawker

 
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Elephant Paints Self-Portrait (Video)

Posted by Robert Birming in Animal, Video Clips on March 29, 2008 at 5:03 am

A video clip of an elephant painting a self-portrait. Fake? You be the judge. Or just sit back and relax, and enjoy the video.

Link [YouTube]

 
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