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Elephant was a Natural sciences good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
April 5, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
September 28, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 28, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
December 31, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted
February 20, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
August 11, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
Current status: Former good article nominee

Olifant was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 30 October 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Elephant on November 2009. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Tuskless Elephant Population Increasing?

Every now and then, I come across articles online saying that elephants' tusks are disappearing/getting shorter due to poaching. Can anyone tell me if this is true? Because I just returned from Kruger National Park, South Africa and I saw plenty of elephants during my stay, all with long, perfectly healthy tusks. User:Dinolover45, 13:31, 5 April 2010

Mating behaviour

Exerpt : "(image 1). (...) (image 5)"

What image 1 ? What image 5 ? Is this copied from a book ? Unless I missed something, it looks like it was. 216.221.33.38 (talk) 02:06, 30 June 2010 (UTC) L.D.[reply]

Looks like nobody cares. 216.162.79.230 (talk) 05:44, 30 July 2010 (UTC) L.D.[reply]

Noticed this too, and should probably be fixed. 68.187.192.30 (talk) 23:45, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Largest elephant

In the 2. paragraph of the article you find this sentence:

The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. This male weighed about 24,000 lb (11,000 kg).

In the section "African elephant" you find a max. weight of 12,000 kilograms (26,000 lb).

Both figures refer to the same animal but come from different sources. Which one is correct?

In the German WIKI an animal shot in 1978 is named as largest animal; a height of 4,21m is given but no weight. --83.135.48.91 (talk) 15:54, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invalid link

Remove last external link: "Elephant Conservation Science and Veterinary Medicine Group" This site has been suspended. Bad article is protected.. --79.118.39.24 (talk) 15:15, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. Thanks.--RegentsPark (talk) 15:36, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does this article really still need to be protected?

We all know it. Stephen Colbert pointed out that you can 'change' the population of elephants to make them not an endangered species by editing wikipedia. This article has been protected ever since. But that was in like 2006. It's 2010 now. This article may not need to be protected anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 00Eregos00 (talk • contribs) 04:15, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article was protected at my request because of the huge amount of vandalism it receives from anon users. The article has been unprotected many times however vandalism continues to surface again and again, as a consequence the article has been protected. ZooPro 05:32, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As ZooPro stated, this page sees constant, massive amounts of vandalism. Furthermore, many of the vandals appear to be totally oblivious to the fact that the elephant tripling population is a tired and unfunny joke.--Mr Fink (talk) 05:51, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree - protection should stay. Unapproved editors can still make suggestions on this talk page. Bob98133 (talk) 15:05, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Milk

Is the milk of an elephant safe for human consumption.