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Pete Muller/Magnum Foundation/Prime Hundreds of elephants gather each day at this “bai,” or clearing, in Dzanga Bai National Park, deep in the jungles of the Central African Republic.
According to common account, Emperor Claudius made use of war elephants during his invasion ... London Zoo’s first African elephant was arguably the most culturally important elephant who ...
Speculation on the crossing place stretches back more than two millennia to when Rome and Carthage, a North African city-state ... 11 years later and brought war elephants along, too.
India and China are not about, or expected, to go to war in the near future ... about China’s real intentions before the Elephant and the Dragon can dance together. India must, hence, exercise ...
It is the habitat of many endemic endangered species, such as the dwarf chimpanzee, the Congo peacock, the forest elephant and the African slender-snouted or ... is divided into two sectors (North and ...
Pupy the elephant has arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, following a 2,700-kilometer journey from a zoo converted into an ecological park in Argentina’s capital where she ...
In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.
Israeli society became aware of the events of World War II in North Africa far too late. North African Jews themselves only gradually came to realize that their wartime experiences bore ...
As the Ukraine war rages on, Russia has at last admitted the presence of North Korean troops at the frontline. Speaking at an event on Saturday, the Russian Chief of General Staff was heard ...
So much rubber was imported by Leopold that tiny Belgium had become Europe’s fifth-largest economic power by the outbreak of World War I ... But not local African elephants — at least not ...