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Article: When elephants fly - a new migration: To help cull its population, South Africa will fly 16 elephants to Angola this weekend.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 8, 2000
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A South African wildlife-management professor, Wouter van Hoven, is wowing conservationists and captivating the public here with his larger-than-life plan to capture, crate, and airfreight 16 portly pachyderms to Angola this weekend.
Migrating the modern way, two complete families of elephants will be traveling to Quicama National Park, about 35 miles south of the Angolan capital, Luanda. (No word on whether peanuts will be served on the flight).
Transplanting young South African elephants to foreign parks and zoos has been done before. But never on this scale. This will be the first time entire families have made such a move. And conservationists laud ...