Here is a different type of baby elephant video. My friends at Painted Dog Conservation in Zimbabwe spend a lot of their time following packs of African Wild Dogs through Hwange nation park . Occasionally, they find injured animals needing their assistance along the way. They often help animals with snare (wire trap) wounds that need to be treated. One afternoon Jealous (this is actually his name, native Zimbabwean parents name children after English words they have heard or seen, but don’t understand what they mean. His name does not describe his nature.), PDC’s head tracker, found a baby elephant trapped upside down in a water trough and called Peter Blinston, PDC’s project manager, to assist in a rescue. Watch the heroic rescue below.
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Jan
22
Last Call for Borneo!
Reservation for our Borneo’s Elephants and Orangutans Tour will be closing soon with limited spaces available. The Houston Zoo is offering a one-of-a-kind experience on the island of Borneo. An encounter with elephants and orangutans in the wild along the Kinabatangan River May 13-24, 2010.
The Kinabatangan River is 560km long and the Lower Kinabatangan region is estimated to have the largest concentration of wildlife in all of Malaysia. The area is renowned for its tropical birds including all 8 species of Hornbill found in Borneo. Crocodiles, monitor lizards, wild pigs, otters, civets, 10 species of primates including the island’s own proboscis monkey and Bornean Orang-utan , and of course, Borneo’s elephants.
Contact conservation@houstonzoo.org for more information or go to our travel webpage