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Sunday Smile: Rumbles From Bambi

For this week’s Sunday Smile, we’re giving you a quick glimpse of Bambi up close and rumbling. It’s just a brief video, so perhaps those of you who love hearing elephant vocalizations can keep it playing on your bedside at night and relax to the soft sounds of Bambi. Enjoy!...

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Mara and Rana Lose Sight of Each Other

The Asian elephants have a good understanding of how the yards and fences are laid out in their habitats. They’re used to roaming from one space to another, so they know where the gates are between fenced-in areas. That doesn’t stop them from “losing” each other on occasion. Mara and…...

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Hide and Seek With Mara and Rana

Just because they’re our resident grandmas doesn’t mean that Rana and Mara can’t get silly when they want to. The two of them are some of the chattiest of all the elephants, and they regularly have vocalization sessions that you can hear all the way across the habitat and up…...

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Mara’s Party Where Bambi Listens

Listen carefully for the vocalizations in this video! Mara had a solo party this week, and the whole sanctuary probably heard it. It was after breakfast when she and Rana were getting ready for treatment, and Mara started to play in a dirt mound. She was kneeling on the ground,…...

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EleFact Friday: Asian Elephant Communication

As we know, elephant vocalization plays a key role in their survival in the wild. For this week’s EleFact, we look at a recent study that delved into the complex system of sounds they make, from low-frequency rumbles and roars to high-frequency chirps and squeaks. Much of the research on…...

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Making Sure Bambi Feels Safe

Yesterday morning, Bambi, Maia, and Guillermina were all in Yard 1, hanging out and grazing. The caregivers heard Bambi call out to the other two, but no one answered. This caused Bambi to get a little agitated. She put her tail up in the air and quickly walked over to…...

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