[Surnetkids] Elephants

Dear Reader,

Not apropos elephants at all, but I have been looking for research that summarizes the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines. Something that is easy to understand, and easy to share. I found what I’ve been seeking in a New York Times article that summarized research recently published by the CDC. Here’s the quote:

“Compared with vaccinated adults, those who were not fully vaccinated were 4.5 times as likely to become infected, 10 times as likely to be hospitalized, and 11 times as likely to die of Covid.”

* New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/health/coronavirus-vaccine-mandate.html

Oh, and getting back to elephants, September 22, 2021 is National Elephant Appreciation Day.

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The elephant is the earth’s largest land animal. Asian elephants (also known as Indian elephants) are found in Southeast Asia, and can be distinguished by their arched back which is slightly taller than their shoulders or rump. African elephants live in Africa, south of the Sahara desert and are the larger than their Asian cousins. The biggest elephant ever weighed was an African bull weighing more than 14,500 pounds!

The Elephant Sanctuary

The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee provides refuge for 10 elephants retired from zoos and circuses. “Elephants that have lived their lives in captivity have an opportunity at The Sanctuary to live in an expansive habitat that allows for a range of natural behaviors. Many of the elephants suffer long-term health and complex behavioral issues common to elephants that have spent their lives in captivity, such as tuberculosis, osteomyelitis, obesity, arthritis, and aggression.”

Elephant Voices

The Elephant Voices project studies elephant communication in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. Elephants are large-brained animals with complex communication skills that include hearing, smell, vision and touch. For high school and college students the site is chock full of terrific resources for research reports, especially in Elephant Communication, and Elephant Sense & Sociality. “At one end of the spectrum elephants communicate by rubbing their bodies against one another, at the other end they may respond by moving toward the sounds of other elephants calling, perhaps 10 kilometers away.”

National Zoo: Elephant Trails

“Asian elephants are endangered in the wild, where perhaps only about 30,000 still live in forests of south and southeast Asia. They are endangered in North American zoos, too. That’s why the 2001 birth of Kandula, the result of artificial insemination, was such a triumph.” Cams and photo galleries are the highlight of this National Zoo site. Scroll down the page for links to Elephant Enigma (“How do you get a four-ton animal to open up and say, ‘Ahhh’?) and savannah (or African) elephants.

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