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Odisha: Wild elephants create mayhem in Mayurbhanj village
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Mayurbhanj (Odisha) [India], Aug 4 (ANI): Residents of Karanjia village in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha have claimed that a herd of wild elephants wreaked havoc in the area by destroying crops and even damaging houses.
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Elephant extinction may raise carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere: Study
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 3 (ANI): Forest elephants engineer the ecosystem of the entire central African forest, but their catastrophic decline toward extinction has catastrophic implications for carbon policy.
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Juvenile elephant dies after being accidentally electrocuted in Andhra's C
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 21 (ANI): A juvenile elephant on Sunday died after being accidentally electrocuted in Palamaner mandal of Chittoor district.
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Birds three times larger than Ostrich existed in Taurida Cave, finds study
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 6 (ANI): Researchers have discovered that early Europeans lived alongside some of the largest known birds ever, which could have been the source of meat for early humans.
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Bird three times larger than ostrich discovered
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 27 (ANI): Researchers have discovered that early Europeans lived alongside birds which were three times larger than ostrich and weighed about 450kg.
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PIL in Gauhati HC against move to transport four elephants to Ahmedabad
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], June 25 (ANI): A PIL has been filed in the Gauhati High Court against the decision of Assam Forest Department to send four elephants through train from Tinsukhia to Ahmedabad to take part in a temple ritual.
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Assam: Gaurav Gogoi writes to centre over transportation of elephants to G
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 20 (ANI): Gaurav Gogoi, Member of Parliament of Indian National Congress from Kaliabor in Assam, has sought centre's help to prevent the transportation of four juvenile elephants from Assam to Gujarat.
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Andhra Pradesh: Woman killed, one injured in attack by elephants
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Srikakulam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 17 (ANI): A woman was killed while another was critically injured when a herd of elephants created panic in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh on Monday.
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Wild elephant dies due to electrocution in Udham Singh Nagar
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Udham Singh Nagar (Uttarakhand) [India], June 15 (ANI): A wild elephant died due to electrocution at Jaspur here on Saturday. The mishap took place when he was trying to enter a sugarcane field fenced with electric wires. The elephant was an adult male of about 20 years, said Forest Ranger M
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Disgruntled by allotment of land in middle of elephant corridor, 47 famili
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kamarajpuram (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 1 (ANI): A hamlet of 47 families, who were issued land deeds by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami three years ago, have finally been allotted the land in the middle of an elephant corridor.
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Blind adults do recognise animal appearances
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Contrary to the idea that blind people learn about animal appearance from sighted people's descriptions, a recent study claims that with the help of logical inference blind adults gets a rich insight into what hippos and sharks look like.
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Thrissur: One-eyed celebrity elephant opens Thrissur Pooram festival
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Thrissur (Kerala) [India], May 12 (ANI): Scores of devotees cheered as Kerala's beloved one-eyed elephant waded through the corridor of the famed Vadakkumnathan temple here on Sunday after it was given a conditional nod by the district authorities to participate in the Thrissur Pooram fes
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