KOMOON!—CAPTURING THE CHAD ELEPHANT (219 pp.)—Heinrich Oberjohann —Pantheon ($3). The elephant in captivity, says Heinrich Oberjohann, is a pious fraud—a nine-foot canting hypocrite that gives the ...
Last year, when the Oregon Zoo celebrated the birth of a new elephant, visitors showing up to see baby Samudra helped push annual attendance to 1.62 million. The first time the zoo clocked in more ...
“If we lose the elephants and the other animals we will have nothing to return to. We will lose our minds.” —Pacquo Lesorogol, Samburu elder When it comes to fascinating stories, Cyril Christo has ...
"My own view is also that the various new laws being introduced in the western world to prevent ivory trafficking are for the most part useless and entirely miss the point. They are just sops to the ...