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The Elephant Rally, or Elefantentreffen, is a winter motorcycle rally, which takes place on the first weekend in February or on the last weekend in January annually in a valley between the towns of Thurmansbang and Solla in the Bavarian Forest in Germany. It is organized by the Federal Association of Motorcycle Riders in Germany.
Allen Campbell (December 30, 1956 – August 20, 1994) was an American zookeeper and elephant trainer and handler in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida before moving to work in the Baton Rouge Zoo in the mid-1970s as the elephant keeper and trainer.
James Howard Williams, also known as Elephant Bill (15 November 1897 – 30 July 1958), was a British soldier and elephant expert in Burma, known for his work with the Fourteenth Army during the Burma Campaign of World War II, and for his 1950 book Elephant Bill.
The elephant later on died, years later, at Regent Zoo in London, while in the process of being transferred to a different facility, Whipsnade Zoo. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Its death led to the foundation, Born Free, being created by the Late Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna to look after the welfare of animals, including elephants.
Peter Duff Hart-Davis (born 3 June 1936), [1] generally known as Duff Hart-Davis is a British biographer, naturalist and journalist, who writes for The Independent newspaper. He is married to Phyllida Barstow and has one son and one daughter, the journalist Alice Hart-Davis.
The Wupper river, between Schwebebahn stations Alter Markt and Adlerbrücke Painting of Tuffi on a house wall in Wuppertal facing the Schwebebahn. Tuffi (born 1946, India – died in 1989, Paris, France) was a female Asian elephant that became famous in West Germany during 1950 when she accidentally fell from the Wuppertal Schwebebahn into the River Wupper underneath.
Elephant racing, though unusual as a sporting event, is held in many parts of the world but mostly in Asia. The earliest known such racing event as a tradition is reported from Vietnam . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the 20th century, this became a major event (though it generated protests) in Germany in 1920, and an organized International Elephant Race in ...
Thunder, an African pygmy elephant, [5] is the main protagonist of the series, which takes place in Africa alongside his tribe and mother. He is very close to his mother, who teaches him how to communicate and protect himself from the savanna's many dangers, especially Uprights (a term used by the elephants in the story for humans).