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    Pakistan's Madhubala elephant gets relief after years of dental pain

    18 Aug 2022

    Madhubala is one of four African elephants being treated in Karachi by an eight-member team from global animal welfare group Four Paws.

    Mexican zoo live-streams birth of elephant named 'Zoom'

    16 Aug 2020

    A baby African elephant whose birth was live-streamed by a safari park in Mexico has been named Zoom after the video chat app made popular by the coronavirus pandemic.

    Islamabad’s only zoo shuts after last animals moved

    16 Dec 2020

    "The Islamabad zoo is now completely closed for both public and officials," Saleem Shaikh, a spokesman for Pakistan's ministry of climate change said.

    Pakistan's only Asian elephant prepared for new home

    04 Sep 2020

    A team of international vets using tranquilliser darts, flatbreads and the soothing lyrics of Frank Sinatra conducted a medical examination on Friday on Pakistan's only Asian elephant, ahead of his planned move to Cambodia.

    Over 2,000 Thailand's tourist elephants face starvation

    01 Apr 2020

    Underfed and chained up for endless hours, campaigners warn many elephants working in Thailand's tourism sector may starve, be sold to zoos or shifted into the illegal logging trade as the coronavirus decimates visitor numbers.

    Fun, music and few tears as Pakistan’s lonely elephant Kaavan leaves for Cambodia

    25 Nov 2020

    With music, treats and balloons, friends of Pakistan's only Asian elephant threw a farewell party for the creature ahead of its relocation to Cambodia following years of campaigning by animal rights activists.

    Marijuana test for stressed-out Warsaw Zoo elephants

    27 Aug 2020

    Medical cannabis has been used worldwide to treat dogs and horses but "this is probably the first initiative of its kind for elephants," Agnieszka Czujkowska, the veterinarian in charge of the project, said.

    Sengis, popularly known as elephant shrew, rediscovered after half a century

    24 Aug 2020

    The animal is only a few inches long, resembling a mouse, and it was lost to science for at least half a century, until being rediscovered in the Horn of Africa.

    Foreign veterinarians save sick elephant Noor Jehan at Pakistani zoo

    05 Apr 2023

    The team included veterinarians from Egypt, Bulgaria and an elephant husbandry expert from Germany. The governor of Sindh province was at the zoo for the procedure, as were animal rights activists.

    Elephant Noor Jehan unable to stand after fall at Karachi Zoo, remains critical

    15 Apr 2023

    "Her condition is very critical at the moment. We are trying everything to save her," Four Paws spokeswoman Katharina Braun said by email.

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