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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in the journal Animal Cognition, Dr. Dalila Bovet from Paris West University Nanterre La Defense showed how African grey parrots are capable of cooperating and performing tasks as a team, but let their personalities lead their decision. http://phys.org/news225018544.html Biology Thu, 19 May 2011 10:10:08 EST news225018544 (PhysOrg.com) -- Three different dinosaur footprints have been found on a 50 kilo boulder from an Isle of Wight beach, providing evidence of life on a riverbank 130 million years ago. http://phys.org/news221741554.html Other Sciences Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:53:02 EST news221741554 Thai customs said on Friday they had seized two tonnes of ivory worth over $3.3 million hidden in a shipment of frozen fish -- equivalent to more than 120 elephants killed. http://phys.org/news220873451.html Biology Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:20:02 EST news220873451 The founder of website domain hosting firm Go Daddy was under fire on Thursday for an online video showing him proudly killing an elephant in Zimbabwe. http://phys.org/news220813460.html Technology Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:04:33 EST news220813460 A rare Sumatran elephant has died in Indonesia after blocking a village street for a week, an official said Sunday. http://phys.org/news220502574.html Biology Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:00:02 EST news220502574 (PhysOrg.com) -- The value of mature female experience may be something that human society needs to be reminded of from time to time but elephants, it seems, have good reason never to forget. http://phys.org/news219508504.html Biology Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:35:27 EST news219508504 Elephants quickly learn to lend each other a helping hand - ah, make that a helping trunk. http://phys.org/news218744988.html Biology Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:30:07 EST news218744988 (AP) -- A tuberculosis outbreak among workers at a Tennessee elephant sanctuary in 2009 is being blamed on one of the pachyderms, even though some of the employees didn't have close contact with the animal. http://phys.org/news217089201.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:33:35 EST news217089201 Sri Lanka is planning its first ever census of elephants as the animals increasingly come into conflict with villagers, a top official said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news217053182.html Biology Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:10:02 EST news217053182 Despite increased poaching and a recent severe drought, Kenya has recorded a rise in elephant population in its flagship park, wildlife authorities announced Saturday. http://phys.org/news216798443.html Biology Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:20:07 EST news216798443 An enraged bull elephant that killed its owner and then went on a 10-day rampage in the Cambodian countryside has been taken in by a wildlife rescue centre. http://phys.org/news212682569.html Biology Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:32:18 EST news212682569 Contrary to the belief of many scientists (as well as many members of the public), new research confirms that Africa has two—not one—species of elephant. Scientists from Harvard Medical School, the University of Illinois, and the University of York in the United Kingdom used genetic analysis to prove that the African savanna elephant and the smaller African forest elephant have been largely separated for several million years. http://phys.org/news212175742.html Biology Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:49:38 EST news212175742 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research from The University of Western Ontario leads investigators to believe that woolly mammoths living north of the Arctic Circle during the Pleistocene Epoch (approx. 150,000 to 40,000 years ago) began weaning infants up to three years later than modern day African elephants due to prolonged hours of darkness. http://phys.org/news212150997.html Other Sciences Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:50:10 EST news212150997 Three endangered Sumatran elephants have been found dead after their herd rampaged through a village in western Indonesia, a conservationist and officials said Thursday. http://phys.org/news211090501.html Biology Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:50:01 EST news211090501 (AP) -- Five endangered Sumatran elephants have been found dead in Indonesia, and conservationists said Sunday that they suspect farmers poisoned the animals to stop them from damaging crops. http://phys.org/news210136761.html Biology Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:40:01 EST news210136761 Researchers demonstrate that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago made way for mammals to get bigger - about a thousand times bigger than they had been. The study, which is published in the prestigious journal Science, is the first to show this new pattern of increased body size of mammals after the exit of the dinosaurs. http://phys.org/news209917263.html Other Sciences Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:21:29 EST news209917263 (PhysOrg.com) -- A German automation company has come up with a new design for a flexible robotic arm, taking inspiration from the trunk of an elephant. http://phys.org/news209886094.html Technology Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:20:01 EST news209886094 (PhysOrg.com) -- By examining the development of bones in the vertebral column, limbs, and ribcage, scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered how sloths evolved their unique neck skeleton. http://phys.org/news206635940.html Biology Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:53:23 EST news206635940 Hong Kong customs officers have seized over one and a half tonnes of smuggled elephant ivory worth 10.9 million Hong Kong dollars (1.3 million US) shipped from Tanzania, they said Friday. http://phys.org/news203339821.html Biology Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:17:10 EST news203339821 (PhysOrg.com) -- Elephants are not bothered by dynamite explosions, but nearby human activity prompts them to dramatically change their behavior, reports a Cornell study that used automated listening devices to monitor elephant behavior in Gabon. http://phys.org/news203181692.html Biology Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:21:46 EST news203181692 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ants are not out of their weight class when defending trees from the appetite of nature's heavyweight, the African elephant, a new University of Florida study finds. http://phys.org/news202651455.html Biology Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:04:25 EST news202651455 (AP) -- India should protect its elephant population by securing its wildlife reserves, curbing poaching and restricting development in the corridors they use to travel between forested areas, a panel recommended. http://phys.org/news202548435.html Biology Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:28:20 EST news202548435 Scientists in Brazil say a fossil of an elephant's tooth found in the Amazon jungle proves the presence of pachyderms in South America some 45,000 years ago, a report said on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news198856050.html Other Sciences Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:47:44 EST news198856050 (AP) -- Carefully, the Chinese ivory dealer pulled out an elephant tusk cloaked in bubble wrap and hidden in a bag of flour. Its price: $17,000. http://phys.org/news193153872.html Biology Sat, 15 May 2010 14:51:38 EST news193153872 The Wildlife Conservation Society announced the results of the first-ever evaluation of a large, "landscape-wide" conservation approach to protect globally important populations of elephants and great apes. http://phys.org/news192375477.html Biology Thu, 06 May 2010 15:20:04 EST news192375477 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time elephants have been found to produce an alarm call associated with the threat of bees, and have been shown to retreat when a recording of the call is played even when there are no bees around. http://phys.org/news191523025.html Biology Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:50:38 EST news191523025 Elephants' legs work like a four-wheel drive vehicle, making them probably unique in the animal kingdom, scientists said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news189160019.html Biology Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:27:13 EST news189160019 (AP) -- A proposal by Tanzania to weaken the 21-year ban on ivory sales was rejected by a U.N. conservation meeting over fears the African country has been failing to crack down on rising incidents of poaching. http://phys.org/news188458755.html Biology Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:50:26 EST news188458755 Urgent law enforcement action by governments in Central and West Africa and South-east Asia is crucial to addressing the illicit ivory trade, according to a new analysis of elephant trade data released today. http://phys.org/news188035730.html Biology Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:09:06 EST news188035730 A baby elephant thought to have died in the womb made its first public appearance at Sydney's Taronga Zoo on Sunday, amid predictions it will make a full recovery from its arduous birth. http://phys.org/news187764381.html Biology Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:46:52 EST news187764381