While culling has been avoided across the region after protests from environmental activists, Botswana and Zimbabwe have in recent years asserted the right to manage their elephant numbers as they see fit.
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Elephants in circuses and roadside zoos are denied everything that gives their life meaning. Many become neurotic, unhealthy, depressed, and aggressive as a result of the inhumane conditions in which they're kept.
Elephants return to conflict-ridden national park. The appearance of nearly 600 elephants in Virunga National Park, in the DRC, suggests it's safer for wildlife than it once was. Savanna elephants have returned en masse to Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Elephants are exceptionally smart creatures. They have the largest brain of any land animal, and three times as many neurons as humans. While many of these neurons exist to control the elephant's large and dexterous body, these creatures have demonstrated their impressive mental capabilities time and time again.