As well as destabilizing human communities, logging also threatens to decimate an ecosystem that is critical for the survival of wildlife including forest elephants and endangered apes such as gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos.

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Kalou has missed call-ups in the past, including for the Elephants' last friendly match, against Sweden.

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The first of the three parks we visited was Lake Manyara National Park, a lush nature reserve teeming with all kinds of animals, including giraffes, elephants, exotic birds and baboons.

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He was showered with gifts from the walkabout including a number of enamelled elephants.

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But Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell of Stanford University, who is one of the speakers at the symposium, suspects that a number of large terrestrial mammals, including rhinos, lions and elephants, also use vibration as a means of communication.

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Elevated wooden walkways connect the great house to guest rooms and the villas, and nature is on display day and night, including a herd of more than two dozen elephants that visit frequently.

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Then, to peruse the city's colonial past (it fell to the British in 1815) ramble the lanes of the British Garrison Cemetery, whose deaths, detailed on carved Victorian headstones and including sun stroke, jungle fever and rampaging elephants, paint a fascinating picture of colonial perils.

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Though the snakes here are metaphorical, there are plenty of animals to spot in the jungles of the vast Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary, including monkeys, tigers and about 1, 000 elephants.

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