Story By: Keith Longpeng , Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash Newsflash/PETA Asia This is the shocking moment an elephant visibly flinches with every whack on its head by an animal handler during a popular elephant festival in Nepal. According to the animal rights NGO PETA Asia, the elephant handler stuck the poor…
CEN/HERD Elephant Orphanage South Africa This heartwarming footage shows Khanyisa the cute albino elephant calf frolicking in her new surroundings after being rescued from a wire snare and suffering deep maggot-ridden wounds. According to local media, little Khanyisa was rescued from the snare in January when she was just four…
CEN/@ZooLaAurora This is the moment Trompita the elephant rescued from a circus over a decade ago enjoys a 300-lb cake made with all her favourite treats as she celebrates her 59th birthday. The special birthday event took place at La Aurora Zoo in the southern Guatemalan capital Guatemala City and…
AsiaWire This is the moment a huge male elephant takes a casual stroll through a Chinese village as residents hide indoors in order to avoid provoking it. Footage taken by residents in the village of Gasai, which is in Menghai County in China’s south-western province of Yunnan, shows the large…
CEN/ Zoo Zurich This adorable baby elephant has just been born in Zurich zoo in Switzerland after it's Mum carried it for almost two years. The birth went smoothly for the baby's mother, the 35-year-old elephant Indi, with the baby elephant arriving in the early hours of the morning at…
