1. Karesh yells and waves his arms to drive off the other elephants. 2. The four elephants will stay. 3. A campaign to capture and relocate a herd of wild elephants in central Vietnam began disastrously with the deaths of the first two elephants, an official said Thursday. 4. First, Donna is isolated from the other elephants and coaxed to stand by a fence. 5. Riccardo Ghiazza, who owns the animals through his company, African Game Services, asked the judge on Monday to allow the export of the seven elephants. 6. The first four elephants were moved to Tsavo last month without incident. 7. The two elephants were struck by the snapped wires from an electric pole they uprooted in the rice field outside the forest, a local police officer said. 8. The seven elephants destroyed a house and several farms this week in a village in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam, then chased residents. 9. The seven elephants have conditions ranging from broken and deformed bones to open wounds and blindness. 10. The white elephant is more calm and steady than the other seven elephants and has distinctive characteristics, including pearl-colored eyes and white hairs on the body. |