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• South Africa will sell ivory to Japan, China
It said that more than 20,000 elephants a year are killed illegally in Africa and Asia for the ivory black market, with Chinese nationals implicated in illegal ivory seizures in more than 20 African nations. Five years ago, the Chinese government ...
• Learn a new skill while on vacation
The elephant riding course (which focuses on learning to care for and train with elephants) is three days long, while the tango courses are offered as part of four and eight-day packages. The glass-blowing courses given at Chihuly’s Pilchuck School ...
• Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson have new CDs
Rachael Yamagata, “Elephants/Teeth Sinking Into Heart” Four years after the release of her impressive debut, “Happenstance,” singer/pianist Rachael Yamagata returns with an ambitious two-part album. On the first part (“Elephants”), she ...
• Super-sized dinos had super-sized stomachs
Brachiosaurs and other long-necked giants of the dinosaur world weighed as much as 10 African elephants. Researchers now think they know why the tubby vegetarian beasts got so big: They swallowed high-energy foods whole. Their small heads helped, too ...
• Two-ton rhino adopted by Kenya park rangers
Preserving big animals like rhinos and elephants means a lot of habitat has to be protected, which also helps preserve smaller species that may be in danger." Milk won rhino over When Max first arrived from a neighboring reserve, Muriithi and his ...