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An 1899 newspaper correspondent [14] and Sir Theodore James Tasker, in an article published by the Kipling Society in 1971 suggested that "Petersen Sahib, the man who caught all the elephants for the Government of India" in the Jungle Book story, Toomai of the Elephants by Rudyard Kipling, was a reference to George Peress Sanderson.
The last elephant in the vicinity of the Cape Peninsula was killed in 1704, and elephant populations west of the Knysna region were extirpated prior to 1800. By 1775, the remaining Cape elephants had retreated into forests along the foothills of the Outeniqua / Tsitsikamma coastal mountain range around Knysna, and dense scrub-thickets of the ...
There were 13,000–16,500 working elephants employed in Asia in 2000. These animals are typically captured from the wild when they are 10–20 years old, the age range when they are both more trainable and can work for more years. [157] They were traditionally captured with traps and lassos, but since 1950, tranquillisers have been used. [158]
The refuge takes in mistreated elephants, and gives them food and a home, as they can no longer survive by themselves in the wild. This particular elephant has a broken hip (left side of pic), as ...
Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals which includes the living elephants (belonging to the genera Elephas and Loxodonta), as well as a number of extinct genera like Mammuthus (mammoths) and Palaeoloxodon.
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Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo starts with a boy, Will Robert, riding an elephant along a beach, whilst on holiday in Indonesia. Will is grieving for his father, Robert, who died in the Iraq War. The elephant, Oona, is in an odd mood that day: her handler mentions that she refused to go into the sea for her usual morning dip.
This category includes books primarily about elephants. Articles must contain the specific reference ("Category:Books about elephants") to be listed below. Wikidata has data related to Books about elephants .