1.   Moving adult elephants is dangerous and expensive, so herds cannot simply be shipped north.

2.   Comedian Ellen DeGeneres has joined supporters of a proposal to move two elephants at the Little Rock Zoo to a preserve in Tennessee where the animals could roam freely.

3.   Elephants are moved across Kenya.

4.   The elephants were being moved because they had eaten all the available plants in their native habitat.

5.   The first four elephants were moved to Tsavo last month without incident.

6.   The main way has been to move elephants to less-populated game parks.

7.   The zoo announced in October that it would move its elephants after a keeper was crushed to death.

8.   Parntep said his foundation had sent a warning message to the temple to move the elephant two years ago, which went unheeded.