googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTAT_ATF’); }); Now that summer’s back in town, you can usually find me wading in still water with total strangers at any given moment in the pool behind my apartment building. Although dealing with people you don’t know when you hit the pool isn’t always ideal, it’s pretty great when it’s 400 degrees […]
Need a boost to help you power through your work week? Check out this adorable video of a group of elephants rushing over when they see their best friend — a tractor driver named Darrick, who works at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. Every morning when Darrick gets to work, a younger elephant named […]
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); Mosha the elephant was only a baby when her life became much more painful and difficult. When she was two years old, she stepped on a land mine near the Thai-Burma border. She lost most of her front leg. After that, it seemed impossible for her to live a normal life, […]
Have you ever been to the circus? Or have seen any kind of performing elephant? If you have, then you have probably seen a bullhook as well. A bullhook is an elephant goad made out of metal that is used to train the large animals. It’s an accepted practice by countless animal trainers. What most […]
In the south Indian state of Kerala, elephants hold a high place of honor and are often seen in their Hindu festivals. The gentle giants are not only protected by the various temples, but also pampered once a year with their own spa-like rejuvenation ceremony. The event takes place in July, during monsoon season, and is part of […]
They say elephants never forget… but we have a feeling this group of elephants might have some trouble remembering some things the next morning. In Kruger National Park in South Africa, a small herd of elephants were found stumbling around. No one fed them alcohol, these elephants got themselves drunk. They found and ate massive quantities of fermented marula […]
This adorable baby elephant pictured below landed itself in a right old mess after falling down a muddy ditch. The ditch was an old railway embankment and luckily, a train passed by and kind-hearted train passengers convinced the driver to stop so they could give the trapped elephant some food and rescue the poor calf […]
Nothing beats a rainy day for these elephants living in a nature park in Thailand. At one point in their lives, these elephants were kept in captivity. They were living as mere shadows of what they could be. But now, they’re loving life. In fact, unlike most of us who take the little things in […]
If a baby elephant could run for President of the United States, it’d win. That’s because baby elephants are one of the cutest creatures on this planet. It might actually be impossible to be sad when you look at a baby elephant. The gestation period for an elephant is two years. That means it takes 24 months […]