https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Trees that no one wanted to take home for Christmas have come in handy at one south German zoo. https://www.thelocal.de/20180104/rejected-christmas-trees-used-to-feed-animals-in-stuttgart-zoo Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:39:53 +0100 rejected-christmas-trees-used-to-feed-animals-in-stuttgart-zoo There was a special delivery to the Tierpark zoo in the former East of the capital this week – left-over Christmas trees for the elephant herd to chow down on. https://www.thelocal.de/20160107/berlin-zoo-elephants-snack-on-christmas-trees Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:52:54 +0100 berlin-zoo-elephants-snack-on-christmas-trees The elephant herd at Hamburg's Hagenbeck Tierpark (Zoo) is now ten strong after mother Yashoda gave birth to a baby girl on Monday following a 23-month pregnancy. https://www.thelocal.de/20150714/baby-elephant-born-after-23-month-pregnancy Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:35:13 +0200 baby-elephant-born-after-23-month-pregnancy A German conservation official who caused uproar after he boasted about shooting an elephant in Botswana has been made president of a state agricultural institute rather than being sacked. https://www.thelocal.de/20140204/elephant-hunter-bureaucrat-gets-promotion Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:40:00 +0100 elephant-hunter-bureaucrat-gets-promotion Elephants in captivity are becoming too inbred, so a German researcher has amassed a sperm bank of wild elephant semen for zoos to draw on. There’s just one small problem – sperm is not a commodity bull elephants give up lightly. https://www.thelocal.de/20120316/41369 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:34:00 +0100 41369 A baby elephant in Munich will be the first in the world to undergo heart surgery, after vets at the zoo realised she had a congenital defect which will kill her within weeks if nothing is done. https://www.thelocal.de/20120120/40223 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100 40223