Elephant Sanctuary Did You Know That Elephants Are a Lot Shirley and Bunny Have Like People? Both Elephants and People Found a Good Home at the Elephant Sanctuary
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release dates: August 30-September 5 35-1 (08) TM TM Go dot to dot and color. © 2008 Universal Press Syndicate BETTY DEBNAM – Founding Editor and Editor at Large from The Mini Page © 2008 Universal Press Syndicate A Peaceful Habitat The Elephant Sanctuary Did you know that elephants are a lot Shirley and Bunny have like people? Both elephants and people found a good home at the Elephant Sanctuary. • are very social, or friendly; Because they are so large, • love to play; they need a great deal of • are very intelligent; food. An elephant may • have long childhoods, becoming weigh from 9,000 to 12,000 pounds. (An average car adults when they are about 20. weighs about 2,000 Many of these smart animals have pounds.) been taken from the wild in Africa or Adult elephants need to eat Asia to live in zoos and circuses. from 150 to 220 pounds of In zoos and circuses, elephants may be food per day, and they eat only plants. They need a lot confined to small spaces. Imagine if you of space to roam and find were forced to sit still in school all day, food. with no recess and no play time after school or on the weekends. It would not photos courtesy The Elephant Sanctuary be healthy for you, and you would not be Carol meets Tarra happy. You might start to feel a little Carol Buckley is the co-founder of the When Carol was a child, she always from The Mini Page © 2008 Universal Press Syndicate crazy. Elephants need to be able to move Elephant Sanctuary*. Her dream of a brought animals home. Her family had a around as well. sanctuary began in 1974 when she met large backyard that became like a little TM This week, The Mini Page learns about an unusual friend, a baby elephant. The farmyard. There were rabbits, chickens, Rookie Cookie’s Recipe the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, baby’s name was Fluffie, but Carol later ducks, guinea pigs, dogs, cats and other where old, sick and needy elephants can changed it to Tarra (TAR-rah). animals. Pudding Parfait find a new home. *A sanctuary is a safe place. Carol went to college to learn how to You’ll need: care for animals in a zoo or circus. She met • 1-ounce package instant sugar-free, fat-free lemon pudding mix • 2 cups reduced-fat milk Tarra when the elephant was walking • 1 large peach Carol studied while keeping Tarra down Carol’s street with her owner, Bob. • 1 cup fresh blueberries company at the tire store where Tarra Bob had bought the Asian elephant to • 2 cups fat-free whipped topping lived. Carol began taking Tarra home be a mascot for his tire store. (People What to do: each night so the elephant wouldn’t be would probably not be able to get a 1. Prepare lemon pudding according to directions lonely. Bob kept Tarra in a truck at night. with 2 cups milk. Chill for 20 minutes. Carol drove the truck to her country permit to keep an elephant today.) Carol 2. Meanwhile, chop peach into small chunks and combine with blueberries. house each evening and parked it on her was delighted when Bob said she could 3. Spoon 1/4 cup pudding into 4 dessert dishes. Layer 1/4 cup whipped front lawn near a big window. That way, help care for the little elephant. Finally, topping next. Tarra and Carol could see each other all 4. Divide fruit mixture in half and spoon 4 equal portions on top. the time. he allowed Carol to buy her. Carol and 5. Repeat layers of pudding, whipped topping and fruit. Serves 4. Tarra began a new life together. *You will need an adult’s help with this recipe. from The Mini Page © 2008 Universal Press Syndicate from The Mini Page © 2008 Universal Press Syndicate Meet the Cheetah Girls Kiely Williams as Aquanette, Adrienne Bailon as Chanel and Sabrina Bryan as Travels With Carol and Tarra Dorinda star in the Disney Channel movie “The Cheetah Girls: One World.” They have all A new life Carol and Scott help care appeared in the previous two Cheetah Girls for the elephants at the films, and they tour and record for the Cheetah Girls. Carol and Tarra started performing Elephant Sanctuary. There photo courtesy Disney Channel From left to right: Kiely Williams, Kiely and Adrienne also sing in the rhythm together at an amusement park circus. are now 17 elephants there. Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan and blues/pop music group 3LW. The elephants spend their Kiely, 22, was born in Alexandria, Va., and grew up in New Jersey. Her mother Carol taught Tarra to hold a stick and manages the careers of music artists, and her family has a home recording studio. play an instrument called a xylophone. days walking through the Kiely learned about the music business and how to sing from her mom. She has grounds, eating and three older sisters. Then Tarra learned how to play a drum, enjoying each other’s Adrienne, 24, grew up in New York City. She has an older sister. Adrienne got a a bell, a whistle and a harmonica. company. They know where break when she was singing in her church choir. Singer Ricky Martin came in one their favorite plants are. For day and asked that the four best singers in the choir sing backup for him at his Kids were concert that night. Adrienne was one of those singers. amazed that example, Tarra loves to pick Sabrina, 23, was born in Yorba Linda, Calif. She has one sister. Sabrina was a ripe blackberries. member of the song team in high school. She studied public relations and Tarra could pick advertising in college and has appeared in several TV shows. She loves to play up a little soccer, wake-board and snowboard. from The Mini Page © 2008 Universal Press Syndicate harmonica with her big trunk. photos courtesy The Elephant Sanctuary TM Asian elephants Building a sanctuary Barbara arrives have a kind of Tarra snags a berry with Tarra and Carol lived at an animal A year after Tarra moved to the Supersport: Cliff Lee finger at the end her “finger.” park in Canada for a while. There they sanctuary, they brought a second Height: 6-3 Birthdate: 8-30-1978 of their trunks. (African elephants have met Scott Blais, an elephant keeper at elephant, Barbara, to the sanctuary. Weight: 190 Hometown: Benton, Ark. two.) Elephants can pick up small the park. Tarra was unhappy there, and Barbara had been in circuses If Major League Baseball gave out post-season awards, Cliff Lee objects with these Carol and Scott dreamed of building a throughout her life. When she came to would be a viable candidate for Comeback Player of the Year. After suffering an injury in 2007 and posting a puny 5-8 “fingers.” They can good home for elephants. the sanctuary, she weighed about 2,000 pitching record, the Cleveland Indians lefty has ascended to all- also lift whole trees They bought 110 acres of land in pounds less than she should have. star status. In his first 16 decisions this year, Lee went 14-2 and from The Mini Page © 2008 Universal Press Syndicate with their strong struck out 125 batters in 146.2 innings. His previous best year was in 2005, Hohenwald, Tenn., in 1995. The Elephants must chew to wear down when he was 18-5. trunks. They have sanctuary now covers 2,700 acres and is their teeth. New teeth form even if the Now in his seventh and best big-league season, Lee also was chosen for the more than 100,000 the largest natural-habitat refuge for old ones are still there. Barbara hadn’t American League All-Star team. Lee, who played at Meridian (Miss.) Community College and the University of muscles in their elephants in America. There, elephants been fed enough for the food to wear Arkansas, also does a lot off the mound. trunks. can roam as they do in Africa and Asia. down her teeth. As a result, she had too He takes an active role in several community projects. In 2006, Cliff and his Carol and Tarra later went on the There is enough room at the sanctuary many teeth and had trouble eating. Her wife, Kristen, were honorary chairs of a fundraiser for cancer research and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, a project especially close to their hearts. The road with their show. Tarra added roller to keep 100 elephants. teeth were fixed at the sanctuary. She Lees’ son, Jaxon, has survived leukemia. skating to the act. died after five years there. from The Mini Page © 2008 Universal Press Syndicate from The Mini Page © 2008 Universal Press Syndicate Keeping Elephants Safe TM All the following jokes have something in common. Tarra and Carol today Elephants in danger Can you guess the common theme or category? Carol travels around the country People have Elmer: How do elephants get down from a tree? educating the public about the needs of killed or captured Elsie: They sit on a leaf and wait for autumn captive elephants and the crisis facing so many elephants, to arrive! elephants in the wild. or destroyed so Eloise: What’s the difference between an Asian The sanctuary much of their elephant and an African elephant? is supported by habitat, that they Erin: About 3,000 miles! people and are in danger of extinction. organizations Experts say so many Asian elephants that give money have already been killed that their Erica: Why do elephants’ tusks stick out? and by earnings species will probably not survive in the Esther: Who ever heard of an elephant photos courtesy the Elephant Sanctuary orthodontist? Elephants need a lot of space to roam.