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# Make Way for Elephants

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The endangered Asian elephant may be a conservation success story as its rapid decline appears to be stabilizing. But this has created a new set of problems. With little remaining habitat, these elephants have nowhere left to go but into roads, farms, and cities. This time on *Sidedoor*, we look at what happens when wild elephants go urban.

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      Subscribe        From the Collections-  Earth Optimism: Elephants 
-  Arrival of the groom at the palace, folio from a *Ramayana* 
-  Vessel in the form of an elephant with rider 
-  Tracking Asian Elephants with Satellite Collars 
-  Elephant (yanai) offering 
-  Elephant and attendants 
-  Baby Asiatic Elephant Water Skiing 
-  Asian Elephant Meet Up: Introductions Between Two Social Groups 
-  Spirit house figure of an elephant 
-  Asian Elephant 
-  Maharana Raj Singh I observing an elephant fight 
-  Asian Elephant 
-  Sherd 
-  Wild Inside the National Zoo: Elephant Intelligence 
-  Elephant 
-  Asian Elephant 
-  Recently Imported Large Elephant 
-  Elephant with howdah and figure 
-  The elephant Khanderao Bahadur killing Sham Mahavat 
-  Figure of a man riding an elephant 
-  Figure of Puxian (Samantabhadra) 
-  Elephant (Fil), from *Aja'ib al-makhluqat* (Wonders of Creation), by al-Qazvini 
-  Elephant (Fil), from *Aja'ib al-makhluqat* (Wonders of Creation), by al-Qazvini 
-  Spouted vessel (*he*) in the form of an elephant with masks (*taotie*), dragons, and snakes 
-  Famous Elephants Imported from India at Play (*Tenjiku torai dayhyoban zo no giyu*) 
-  Elephant 
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