When elephants fall into deep holes, they often get trapped. 

Unfortunately, in drought-ridden Kenya, nomadic ranchers frequently have to dig deep holes to find water for both themselves and their livestock. And at night, thirsty elephants seek out these wells. The adults, with great long trunks, have little problem reaching the water, but the junior, inexperienced elephants can tumble in. If the animals can’t be pulled out, the elephants are forced to abandon their young.

Over a dozen of these abandoned elephants now live at the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, being taken on daily walks into the woods and fed milk with bottles. It’s a unique form of conservation, where the local Samburu people — a semi-nomadic pastoralist group — collectively owns, manages, and profits from tourists that visit the 3,400-acre property. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | This nomadic group of people once feared elephants. Now, they rescue them.

While I too want to be remembered as someone who smiled at all dogs, I also want proper sentence structure.

On Sunday, Jen D’Angelo pointed out on Twitter that a dedicated park bench in Los Angeles probably had a very nice intention, but its unfortunate wording kinda ruined it. 

“In loving memory of Nicole Campbell, who never saw a dog and didn’t smile.” 

Wait. 

She never saw dogs and she never smiled? Surely, they really mean something along the lines of, “she never saw a dog without smiling,” right? Or maybe they were celebrating that she never smiled and managed to live a life free of canines? Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Memorial bench has a nice message, but definitely needed a better editor

New York City humans and disease-ridden sewer rats agree: one slice is never enough.

In 2015, a video went viral featuring a New York City subway rat dragging a slice of pizza down a set of stairs. That was the last good memory many of us had before Trump became president and our brains lost the ability to record positive events.

Over the weekend, however, another New York City subway rat emerged to drag a slice of pizza down the tracks — bringing joyful pangs of identification to us gross people everywhere.

Twitter user @michaelcourant posted the footage to Instagram and Twitter over the weekend. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Pizza rat reemerges from hell to score second slice

For aspiring photographers or people who just want to make their Instagram pics look damn good, Walmart has this Canon DSLR camera on sale today for $300 off.

The EOS Rebel T6i boasts a 24.2 megapixel sensor and features an EOS Scene Analysis function that automatically adjusts the camera to snap the best photos of any subject, whether you’re taking portraits or shooting a pic with friends. It even has built-in Wi-Fi for immediate sharing to social media.

Walmart lists the price at $899.99, but you can save $300.99 and get it for only $599. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Save 0 on a Canon DSLR camera at Walmart

The National Rifle Association is again incurring the wrath of the survivors of the Parkland school shooting. They’ve announced that guns will be banned at an upcoming convention because Vice President Mike Pence will be in attendance. 

The NRA says that it was the U.S. Secret Service who demanded the gun ban due to Pence’s appearance at the conference, which kicks off Friday, May 4. (The ban was implemented before the White House announced on Monday morning that President Trump would also attend.)

In a statement posted to the conference’s page, the NRA said:  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Parkland shooting survivors call BS on the decision to ban guns during Pence NRA speech

A Frenchman is suing his home country after it seized France.com, the web domain he owned for over two decades.

Jean-Noel Frydman, who was born in France but lives in New York, registered the France.com domain name back in February 1994 before launching the website in June 1995According to Frydman, the original France.com website featured “information about French culture, the Francophile community and a small section on tourism to France.” 

Frydman claims that for the following two decades, France.com was in “constant partnership” with “various entities and branches of the French government.” He says these government entities weren’t just aware of the existence of France.com, Inc., but they “consistently encouraged and supported” the site.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | French dude sues France for seizing France.com domain