Elephants

Bad 'Pee-R': Elephant in the room urinates on Republican convention floor, sparking condemnations

Paige, an African elephant, was paraded through the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston after Governor Greg Abbott’s keynote speech, and was seen wearing a large banner supporting Abbott.

Paige the elephant at Texas Republican party’s annual convention, June 12, 2026.
Thai ambassador to Israel, Boonyarit Vichienpuntu, in front of the elephants at Jerusalem’s Tisch Family Zoological Gardens. June 4, 2026.

Elephant diplomacy: Ambassador marks mark 72 years of Thai-Israeli relations with zoo visit

Illustration: The skull of an asian elephant.

Early humans may have begun eating elephants, large animals 1.8 million years ago - study

A general view of the excavation of Gesher B'not Ya‘acov Acheulian site, April 14, 2026.

Ancient charcoal found in northern Israel sheds new light on how early humans lived - study


500 drunken elephants: The untold Hanukkah story with no Maccabees

A different kind of redemption from Greek tyranny

Ptolemy IV Philopator's drunken elephants turn on their masters, by Jan Luyken, 1700.

Animal-rights NGO persuades El Al to stop shipping hunting trophies

LA resident Aaron Raby will no longer be able to use El Al to fly his hunting trophies to the US after the airline joined 40 other carriers in similar ban

Elephant being killed by a hunter on a trip in South Africa, El Al decided to join other airlines and not fly hunting trophies. The US leads the world with 650,000 hunting trophies flown to it every year.

Warsaw zoo will administrate CBD to its elephants to reduce their stress

The lucky elephants chosen to take part in the first-of-its-kind pilot, are three African elephants that will be administrated with the liquid doses of CBD extract through their trunks.

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Ramat Gan Safari elephant celebrates 46th birthday

Born on August 11, 1974, Yossi was a small baby elephant who grow up to mighty size, reaching the impressive height of 3.8 meters (12.46 feet) and weighing 7 tons.

Elephant (illustrative).

Woolly mammoth skeleton found in lake in Russia's Arctic

Part of its skull, several ribs and foreleg bones, some with soft tissue still attached to them, were retrieved from Russia's remote Yamal peninsula above the Arctic circle on July 23

Skeleton of a mammoth, in the George C. Page Museum, Los Angeles, California

Elephants, hippos central to prehistoric human diet, Israeli scholars say

Two Israeli researchers have proposed a new theory about the prehistoric human diet and how its evolution led to significant cultural and technological developments.

Prof. Ran Barkai at the Middle Pleistocene elephant butchery site of La Polledrara, Italy.

Mystery deaths of 275 elephants in Botswana under investigation

Poaching has been ruled out as the carcasses were found intact.

Elephant (illustrative).

'The Elephant in the Sukkah’

The elephant is both inside and outside the sukkah. Which is similar to living with grief: You’re part of the world but at the same time, you’re not fully in it.

‘THE ELEPHANT in the Room,’ by #Banksy

Israeli Nature and Parks Authority imposes new regulations on ivory

The NPA will prohibit all trade in ivory and products resembling ivory, such as mammoth ivory.

Two elephant ivories retrieved by the Civil Administration at the Allenby Bridge crossing in October 18, 2018

Knesset rejects domestic Israeli ban on ivory trade

The Knesset plenum rejected a bill on Wednesday that proposed a nationwide ban on the domestic trade of ivory products.

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