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Topic: Elephants

Elephants are lightweights and can get drunk on rotten fruit

Anecdotes about wild animals seemingly getting drunk after eating rotting fruit are widespread. There may be some truth to it after all.

Human beings are pushing larger animals like rhinos & elephants to extinction faster

The future belongs to smaller, faster, more fecund, more generalist and preferentially insect-eating species.

Study shows saving elephants helps us fight climate change

What elephants eat and how they eat contribute significantly to forest biomass, research has shown.

African nations demand lifting ban on hunting elephants, ivory trade

Heads of states such as Botswana and Zimbabwe, which are home to most of the world’s elephants, are unhappy with "others" debating and taking decisions on the issue.

To protect India’s elephants, we have to preserve wildlife corridors not just forests

Although forest cover in India has increased, crucial wildlife corridors are shrinking leading to both human and animal deaths.

Wild elephants in India have killed more than 1,700 in four years

The deaths have prompted the government to step up measures to minimise potential clashes of elephants with humans.

India has lost nearly 500 elephants to unnatural factors since 2013

Of the 490 deaths recorded in the past 5 years, more than half the deaths — 267 — occurred due to electrocution.

India’s first & only elephant hospital is ‘illegal’, says Central Zoo Authority

Central Zoo Authority says elephant hospital run by NGO never took permission. NGO claims it doesn’t need CZA permission.

Mathura hospital to give elephants a real healing touch

The 'Wildlife SOS Elephant Hospital', the first-of-its-kind facility, is expected to help in the treatment of elephants, many rescued from circuses.    

Avni row still on, Maneka Gandhi now urges CM Naveen Patnaik to save Odisha’s elephants

Gandhi shoots off a letter to Naveen Patnaik weeks after seven pachyderms died of electrocution in Odisha’s Dhenkanal forest.

On Camera

Rahul Gandhi must stop with irresponsible SIR comments. There’s no ‘click’ to delete voters

No matter the rhetoric spun by the Opposition, the people of Bharat have faith not just in the system, but also in the intelligence of the voters.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.