MetaFilter posts tagged with Animals and elephants

Eco-Friendly Christmas Tree Disposal - Just Add Elephant!

grapefruitmoon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:43:19 -0800

Baby Elephants Eat Christmas Trees : in Germany, baby Elephants are put to work eating five fir trees apiece each day. You say you want MORE baby elephants? Playing the harmonica. On the beach. Learning to walk.

Won't someone think of the animals.

dobbs — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:52:13 -0800

Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow has been linked to twice before on Metafilter. However, you can now view 10 minutes of his film as part of his Ted Talk--it's the most stunning nature footage I've ever seen. In the talk he also mentions a new concept he's developing called Animal Copyright, which I think is long overdue.

...who's the grayest of them all?

salvia — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:45:06 -0800

Elephants are self aware (news story, videos). "As a result of this study, the elephant now joins a cognitive elite," said researcher Frans de Waal at Emory University. [Past posts tagged with "elephant" "elephants"]

The Elephant in a living-room-sized space

soyjoy — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:55:43 -0800

Philadelphia Zoo will close Elephant Exhibit, America's "Oldest Zoo" announced Thursday - becoming the 11th zoo in the US to stop displaying elephants since the Detroit Zoo made such a decision two years ago. Is this officially a trend yet?

The Elephant's Graveyard

SPrintF — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:22:32 -0800

Goodbye, Norma Jean. Norma the elephant was killed by a stroke of lightning. Seventy years earlier, though, Topsy was electrocuted by Thomas Edison, to "demonstrate" the danger of alternating current. Only a few years later, Mary was sentenced to death by hanging, to the amusement and edification of onlookers. It's rough being an elephant in America.

Tusks of the workers' struggle

talos — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 07:28:43 -0800

Every worker is entitled to a pension.
Kerala elephants working for the local government will enjoy a number of work benefits according to the Indian state's decision on a set of rules for their upkeeping. West Bengal seems to have taken similar measures some years ago.

Infrasound - feel the bass.

jack_mo — Mon, 19 May 2003 03:56:20 -0800

Infrasound : Elephants use it to communicate, the military have sought to harness its power as a weapon (.pdf). So have The KLF. Now, a group of avant garde musicians invite you to feel the bass. If reports of the Feraliminal Lycanthropizer are to be believed, that could be one hell of a gig.

mhaw — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 13:29:30 -0800

"PETA Wins Right to Have Newest Party Animal" Judge orders the D.C. Commission on the Arts to allow PETA to display an entry in an ongoing public street art exhibit featuring elephants and donkeys, entitled "Party Animals Public Art Project".