elephant health

EleFact Friday: Weather or Not…

It’s heating up at sanctuary as the dry season creeps in and some of you at home may be experiencing some warmer temperatures as well. For today’s EleFACT, we want to take a look at how abnormally warm temperatures can affect elephants around the world. ...

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Annual Elephant Checkups

It is annual checkup time at Elephant Sanctuary Brazil – the time of year when all of the elephants get a detailed, head-to-tail medical evaluation. While the caregivers do medical check-ins and treatments with the girls on a regular basis, these yearly physicals are more intensive and every part of…...

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Rana’s Sore Ankle

  The other day, caregivers noticed a small area of swelling on one of her ankles. She was not favoring it or acting like she was uncomfortable, but we brought her in to take a closer look.  Superficially, it didn’t look like much so we were keeping an eye on…...

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Five Girls at Weigh-Ins

Since it was time for weigh-ins, we took advantage of the elephants moving between Yards 4 and 5 to bring them into the barn where the scale is. The Powerpuff Girls were the first three through the chute, stopping on the scale momentarily, and then moving into the barn. They…...

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EleFact Friday: Elephant Allergies?

As winter turns to spring in some areas around the world, we humans may be experiencing some stuffy noses and itchy eyes – a telltale sign of allergies. For today’s EleFACT Friday, we want to look at the respiratory systems of elephants and look at allergies in animals, both wild…...

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Guille’s Weight is Improving

Through no fault of her own, Guillermina arrived at sanctuary as a very round young lady, who would have fallen into the clinically obese category. But we knew from the moment we met her that, with her high energy level, sanctuary would be the perfect place to help her slim…...

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