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It is important to have family (on the new Elephant Family strategic action plan)

By John Roberts
29 August 2010 02:13:00

Have you ever been in a relationship where folks outside can't understand why you're friends & hang out together?  You just know you like each other and are happy to support each other despite what others think? No? well, perhaps it's just me then. I have to admit that our relationship.....

Elephants in Between (a photographic exhibition by Brent Lewin)

By John Roberts
19 August 2010 01:11:00

...somebody once said a picture is worth a thousand words so, you'll be glad to hear, this is a short message from me about some powerful pictures.   It is a truth that no amount of my feeble prose can let you imagine a happy baby elephant at play or show a good mahout/ele relationship in the.....

On why elephant nervous systems give blood-suckers a chance (& it takes me longer than Amp to realise we're standing in an ant nest)

By John Roberts
18 August 2010 04:12:00

Elephants have weird skin: not (at least for the purposes of this piece) in the odd to look at, wrinkly & noduled sense, that's kind of cool (literally, as it happens, as a lot of it has to do with heat regulation) but more in the way they feel things. Just watch the babies at play with.....

An age old tale played out in Monrovia (of loggers, elephants, shamans & the modern world).

By John Roberts
6 August 2010 07:11:00

Throughout the range states of both species, those we live with and their larger, uglier cousins in Africa, elephants have held naturally large place in the traditional histories, rituals, religions and folk lore of many (though my guess would be all) the different peoples who have had dealings with.....

Now give me back my dog... (or, to put it another way, what does your consultant do?)

By Khun Prasop Tipprasert (intro. by John & typin by Dr Cherry)
23 July 2010 03:20:00

I have (yet another) secret to confess, ever since I  heard the one about the consultant and the shepherd  (& me being a shepherd of sorts, bigger sheep) I've wanted to jump the fence and become a consultant.  However, with my ageless face and tendency towards tempremental ranting.....

 

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