Politics Buzz The video, via Oxfam America, is calling on Washington to stop wasting food aid money. The elephant's a man, and the donkey's a woman, btw.
You don't see this every day. An elephant named Baby escaped from his keepers and went for a run through a parking lot in Ireland.
This is all real, no film trickery, post-production or hidden cuts — Peter's just a very clever elephant.
Politics Buzz He's right behind you, Callista…RUN!!!! These children are now forever scarred.`
Culture Buzz This will melt your cold heart. Baby Mumba is currently chilling at the Royal Amsterdam Zoo.
The rare sight of an elephant swimming in the ocean was spotted in Mozambique this week, and recently there was a story about an Asian elephant that swims as a sea taxi in the Indian Ocean. It helps to have a built in snorkel!
Culture Buzz Reason one: See video. Reason two: See reason one. (via The Daily What)
Culture Buzz When I sneeze all over myself, people think I'm disgusting or coming down with a zombie virus. When animals sneeze all over, it's a Youtube goldmine. Adorable double-standards!
Culture Buzz It's a sad day when you hear another species has gone extinct. According to USA Today, the African Black Rhino has been officially declared extinct and two other subspecies of rhinoceros are going down that same path. Read the whole story at USA Today. (via usatoday.com)
Culture Buzz See? Our species isn't always awful. Following in the prosthetic footsteps of Motala, this is Mosha. An organization called Friends of the Asian Elephant provided Mosha with an artificial limb after she lost her leg to a landmine in Thailand.
Culture Buzz I wish elephants had LiveJournals. Every entry would be about feeling fat, and being the only elephant in the room.
Culture Buzz They just kind of awkwardly put their butts on each other until one of them falls down. Aww. (via ziza.qip.ru)
Science Buzz I am dead from adorable overdose. Keepers at the Nairobi Elephant Nursery created a custom slicker to keep Shukuru dry and warm.
Meet Motala. She lost her leg after stepping on a land mine in Thailand in 1999, but learned to walk again with a temporary prosthesis. Her keepers have just given her a new longer-lasting leg. I hope it last for ears! (Much more at The Huffington Post.) (via huffingtonpost.com)
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The perks of being a pachyderm.
Culture Buzz This is horrifying. And get this: Apparently every year hundreds of people across India die when wild animals wander into cities because their natural habitats shrink and they have to range farther for food.
No, the better question is, “Why wouldn't a lady stormtrooper hug an elephant heart?” Great thigh highs, too.
Celebrity Buzz In what was surely just a camera flash away from a gory trampling rampage, resulting in Robert Pattinson's face being even flatter and weirder than usual, here's RPat and ReSpoon (that's your new tabloid nickname, Reese Witherspoon) posing with a weeping pachyderm. A ham-fisted photo-op promoting “Water for Elephants” in Sydney. More over at Celebuzz. Use our Photo Editor at the bottom of the page to put the Crying Elephant in a sad photo of your choosing!
Elephant is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Elephant.
Celebrity Buzz Or is it a guy pretending to be Banksy? Or is it Banksy pretending to be a guy pretending to be Banksy? Even the Daily Mail doesn't know.
Culture Buzz A menagerie of internet animals who enjoy massive amounts of cocaine. But seriously, kids, don't do drugs (with animals).
Culture Buzz Happy Elephant Appreciation Day! If I could genetically engineer an elephant to stay a baby forever, I'd totally keep one as a pet. These guys are just too cute!
No big deal. It's just another elephant driver taking his elephant out for a swim — at Radha Nagar Beach in Havelock, Andaman Islands.
Sabu, a 10' tall Elephant spent 2 hours wandering around the streets of Zurich yesterday after escaping from a circus. Can we keep him, ma? Pleeeeeaaase? Via.
Animals are doing pretty well, but there is definitely a lot of room for improvement.
Stephen Colbert recommended the Republicans rebrand themselves with a new logo - the cockroach (or as Tony from Scarface would say, “Cock-a-roach”). Unlike elephants which are presumably getting murdered by GOP policies, the cockroach is resilient and will be around forever! I like?