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9/ 13/ 24, 2: 37 PM The New York Timeshttps:// nytimes. pressreader. com/ the- new- york- times/ 20240909 27/ 40 9/ 13/ 24, 2: 37 PM The New York Times https:// nytimes. pressreader. com/ the- new- york- times/ 20240909 32/ 40 [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the performance of "Water for Elephants," which will close at the Imperial Theatre in New York, after 301 performances, highlighting its high production costs, box office struggles, and mixed critical reception.

The article highlights the crusade of American couple Delia and Mark Owens to stop the killing of elephants in Zambia by offering local people an alternative livelihood to poaching and as part of their wildlife conservation efforts. It shows how former elephant hunter Bernard Mutondo realized the power of the Owenses and started working for them to stop poachers. Focus is given on the decision of local people to protect wildlife and to survive on subsistence farming instead of hunting.

The article discusses the comeback of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the U.S. years after its closure in 2017. Topics discussed include the traveling circus' emphasis on human-focused spectacle, challenges faced by the circus before its closure including declining attendance and accusation of animal mistreatment, and performers included in its national tour including Gemini Twins, Lauren Irving and Dmytro Nikolenko.

The article discusses Namibia's plan to kill 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, to address a severe hunger crisis exacerbated by a record drought, aiming to provide food for its population while also managing wildlife resources under dire conditions.

The article focuses on the recent killings of five bull elephants near Amboseli National Park in Tanzania, likely by trophy hunters, highlighting a breakdown in conservation efforts and differing wildlife management approaches between Tanzania and Kenya.

The article reports on the death of an American tourist in Zambia after being charged by an elephant near Victoria Falls, highlighting the rarity of such incidents, the environmental factors influencing wildlife behavior, and maintaining safe distances from wild animals during tourism.

The article focuses on research indicating that elephants use distinct, individually specific calls, akin to names, to communicate with specific family members, a behavior supported by artificial-intelligence-powered analysis of their vocalizations.

The article informs about Alabama's historic Final Four appearance, with a focus on the unconventional journey led by coach Nate Oats, who transformed the program with his data-driven approach and emphasis on efficiency. Topic include Despite past struggles, Alabama's success is attributed to Oats' meticulous analytics and commitment to a fast-paced, high-efficiency playing style that has propelled them to newfound glory on the national stage.

The article focuses on the extravagant pre-wedding ceremony of Mukesh Ambani's son, highlighting the attendance of global elite members and the intertwining of wealth, power, and influence in modern India. Topics include the concentration of wealth among a few, political alignments with big business, and the erosion of democratic values amid growing economic disparity.

The article focuses on the biotechnology firm Colossal's recent achievement of creating elephant stem cells, which could potentially be developed into various tissues and help protect living elephants, offering promising avenues for research into elephant biology and cancer resistance.

The article reviews the play "Water for Elephants," directed by Jessica Stone and starring Grant Gustin and Gregg Edelman, performed at the Imperial Theater in Atlanta.

The article discusses a study involving Hollywood-trained elephants using blindfolds and tracking devices, revealing that elephants use visual cues to time their strides, and it reports the challenges to the belief that only humans benefit from visual feedback in walking.

The article discusses Divya Anantharaman's mission to diversify the field of taxidermy through their business Gotham Taxidermy, offering workshops and creating taxidermy pieces for clients while emphasizing the connection to nature and the transformative nature of bodies.

The article features the elephant named Pang Pha at the Berlin Zoo in Germany, her ability to distinguish a ripe banana from the unripe ones, and her skill to peel a ripe banana before eating.

The article presents the discussion on elephant shows up, wandering into farmers' fields, and trampling and eats crops. Topics include human-elephant conflict feeds into the issue of local people being recruited into poaching gangs; and intolerance for the animals, eroding community supporting for the conservation and sometimes leading to retaliation.

The article focuses on the plight of the jobless elephants in a small village of Baan Ta Klang, Surin Province in eastern Thailand, which is home to captive elephants whose owners had to return them home when the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the country's tourist industry.

In the article, the author reports on the performances of the Sea Clown Sailing Circus across the islands in Greece, showcasing their aerial rope tricks, acrobatic shows, and fire juggling tricks.

The article reports on a study which showed that the skin of the elephant's trunk plays a key role in its ability to perform various tasks like tearing up foliages and suctioning up water and tortilla chips.

The article reports on the increase in attacks by elephants on humans all across Africa, India, and parts of Southeast Asia. In the past 12 years, elephants have killed 605 people in Assam, India. In Africa, elephants attacking humans is becoming a regular phenomenon, ranging from Zambia to Tanzania, to Uganda to Sierra Leone, where 300 villagers left their home fearing unprovoked elephants attacks. Some scientists cite that species-wide trauma is affecting the pachyderm society

Reports on how elephants are helping in the search and recovery of tsunami victims in Thailand and Indonesia. Advantages over the use of heavy equipment; Claim that elephants are also working to clear roads and move debris in Aceh Province, Indonesia; Story on how elephants saved the lives of European tourists in Khao Luk.

Describes how a fashion photo shoot that used elephants to model outfits from top fashion designers was organized. Fashion photographer Bruce Weber's conception of the photo shoot; Challenges in creating outfits for the elephants.

The article focuses on Rembrandt's 1638 etching "Adam and Eve in Paradise," there are two symbols of good and evil, a dragon hovers over the couple as they contemplate the poison apple, representing the danger of temptation, and in the background, a little, rotund elephant romps in the sunlight.

The article focuses on Asian elephants has been lumbering its way across China for more than a year, traveling more than 300 miles through villages, forest patches and the edges of the city of Kunming, population 8.5 million.

The article focuses on Jos Pimentel-Cardoso, a 22- year-old student at Bard Microcollege in Brooklyn, checks on her dozens of houseplants and plays music for them, and she often plays Mort Garson's 1976 album, "Mother Earth's Plantasia.

The article discusses that U.S. researchers have examined ancient DNA preserved in elephant tusks that were among the cargo of a 487-year-old shipwreck.

The article offers information about the devastation and loss brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, along with mentions the challenges faced by the young L.G.B.T.Q. people in the U.S.

The article reveals that neurotoxins produced by cyanobacteria, a type of microscopic algae, were the cause of the elephant deaths in Botswana's Okavango Panhandle in May and June 2020.

The article report on the scientists assumed that when it came to elephants on the African savanna, matriarchs were the only leaders, and the old males were seen as loners whose social al contribution ended at breeding, and the new evidence suggests that male elephants do have social lives.

The article describes the role elephant seals as lab assistants to help track under-ice ocean currents in the marginal ice zone of Antarctica.

The article reports that the conservationists were flying over Botswana's Okavango Panhandle counted something disturbing as169 dead elephants whereas second flight has revealed more carcasses, bringing the total to 356 in which some of appeared to have died suddenly or running.

The article offers information on resolve of preservation battle over a pair of tenement buildings in New York City; and mentions that Landmarks Law requires the owner to keep the buildings in good repair.

The article reports on Elephants get drunk because they can't metabolize alcohol. Topics include One scientific paper describes elephant trainers rewarding animals with beer and other alcoholic beverages, with one elephant in the 18th century said to have drunk 30 bottles of port a day; and Humans, chimpanzees, bonobas and gorillas have an unusually high tolerance for alcohol because of a shared genetic mutation that allows them to metabolize ethanol 40 times faster than other primates.

The author discusses her experience of observing tuskless elephants in Gorongosa National Park located in Mozambique, Africa. Topics include the tendency for tuskless elephants to have tuskless kin as it is a genetic trait, the tendency for missing lateral incisors to be the second most common form of tooth agenesis, and the physiology and purpose of various tusks in nature.

The article reports on the move of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in November 2017 to allow hunters to bring home trophies from elephants killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia. The agency outlines in their report that well-managed trophy hunting has no adverse effect on the species but can further efforts to conserve the species in the wild. The hunters were said to be undeterred by Zimbabwe's political turmoil before the trophy suspension.

The article reports that the bodies of five wild elephants have been discovered below a steep waterfall in Khao Yai National Park in central Thailand.

The article offers information on Jurassic World live Tour show from Feld Entertainment in which T. rex, dinosaur is the main attraction of the tour.

The article offers information on the tourism in Thailand and the protection it provide to the wild animals. Topics discussed include efforts of several global organizations to stop elephant tourism; views of Delcianna Winders, a lawyer for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; and views of Jan Schmidt-Burbach, senior wildlife for World Animal Protection.