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03/31/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Elephants have a gene that makes them resistant to cancer: Scientists find we have it too

Is it possible that certain mammals have the innate ability to adapt genetically and decrease their susceptibility to cancer? A recent study published in the journal Cell Reports seems to suggest so, indicating that elephants, the world’s largest land mammal, bear special resistance to cancer that stems from the way their genes have changed throughout […]

03/15/2018 / By Edsel Cook

More like humans than most realize, Asian elephants are very social creatures with complex personalities

The great 17th century French tragedian Peter Corneille once said that elephants are like people, only more so. Well, a new Finnish study proved that Asian elephants developed personalities and social needs in much the same way that humans do, reported a ScienceDaily article. The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Turku in Finland. They investigated a […]

11/18/2017 / By Mike Adams

President Trump saves the elephants of Zimbabwe: Big game hunting trophy ban to remain in place

Believe it or not, the murder of elephants with hunting rifles is routinely called “conservation” by government regulators. (Note carefully that human depopulation is also being promoted as a way to “save the planet” these days.) After government bureaucrats at the US Fish and Wildlife department announced a recent decision to allow big game “trophies” […]

06/29/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

These elephants just saved a baby calf from drowning, demonstrating planning, intelligence and compassion

Nature is full of marvels, from the spectacular display of the Northern Lights to the power of the sun to help our bodies produce miraculous Vitamin D. That is why it is such an outrage when people destroy what nature has given us, whether it’s via fracking, pollution, or spraying toxic weed killers on crops. […]

04/27/2017 / By Earl Garcia

Mass die-offs accelerate across the planet, by 2020 two-thirds of wild animals will be wiped out

The planet’s animal population is rapidly dwindling, with about two-thirds expected to be wiped out by 2020, a recent analysis revealed. To carry out the study, researchers from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) compiled data on animal population and found that it declined by 57 percent between 1970 and 2012. The research […]

04/21/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Elephants are conscious beings with BODY awareness, new experiments reveal… are they smarter than humans?

“Dumbo” may be a misnomer. Elephants may be more intelligent than we thought — and trust us, we already thought very highly of these gentle giants. A team from Cambridge University said in a new study that elephants have high levels of self-awareness; an ability that doesn’t develop in human children until at least the […]

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