Word: africas
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...Susi campaign. "But as long as she had Alicia she was more or less O.K. Now, though, she's apathetic, her trunk hangs on the ground and she's eating her own excrement. Clearly, she's depressed." (See pictures of how one conservationist manages elephants in the wild in Africa...
...that their complaints have had an impact. However, they would like to see the zoo go further. "Susi's condition keeps getting worse," Garcia says. "She's not going to get better unless she's released to a reserve." (See a story about managing elephants in the wild in Africa...
...would be abnormal for an adult elephant in the wild," says Dr. Joyce Poole, director of the conservation group Elephant Voices. At the behest of Libera and FAADA, Poole plans to travel to Barcelona to examine Susi's behavior for herself. But based on her studies of elephants in Africa, she admits to a certain bias. "Personally, I don't think we should have elephants in city zoos," Poole says. "Elephants in the wild are active in mind and body 24 hours a day - listening over long distances, smelling predators with their extraordinary sense of smell, interacting with friends...
...final offensive, the Sri Lankan army hunted Prabhakaran for months, even as rumors floated that he might have escaped by boat to the Persian Gulf, East Africa or Southeast Asia. By the end, he was reduced to his core group of about 250 loyalists. The body of Prabhakaran's son Charles Anthony was recovered first and displayed on television within hours of his death. Prabhakaran's life ended in Mullivaikal, a strip of land on the northeastern coast, a place not much different from where he began...
From Beach to Isle. Spanish airline Air Europa will begin flying weekly from Miami to Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, on June 20. The Saturday flight to the volcanic isles, just off the northwestern coast of Africa, leaves Miami at 5 p.m., arriving in Tenerife 7:35 a.m., and costs about $700 round-trip...