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Photos: 4 elephants call former citrus farm home

Photos: 4 elephants call former citrus farm home

At the newly opened National Elephant Center in Fellsmere, Fla., the pachyderms have discovered how to pluck the fruit from the trees with their trunks and pop it into their mouths.

Scenes from Kenya mall hostage siege

Scenes from Kenya mall hostage siege

 
  • ICELAND - MAY 16: The Eyjafjallajokull volcano releasing ash on May 16, 2010 in Iceland. Air passengers are warned they could face further disruption after ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland moves towards UK airspace. (Photo by Orvar Porgiersson / Barcroft Media / Getty Images)
  • SUMATRA, INDONESIA - JUNE 4. EXCLUSIVE: A strombolian eruption from Anak Krakatau volcano at night on June 04, 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia. German electrical engineer Martin Rietze specialises in astronomical and meteorological equipment, his work takes him to strange environments such as the Arctic and volcanos around the world. As a lover of photography Martin always documents his trip with pictures and noticed how alien landscapes can look despite being here on earth. Martin has produced a stunning set of images entitled Alien Landscapes on Planet Earth which he hopes one day will form a book. (Photo by Martin Rietze / Barcroft Media / Getty Images)
  • (FILE) A column of fire bursts from the crate of the Pacaya Volcano, some 50 km (31 miles) south of Guatemala City, March 1, 2000. Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom on May 28, 2010 has declared a state of emergency after a powerful eruption at the southern Pacaya volcano killed one person and forced the international airport to close. Ash blanketed the region as rocks and lava spewed from the volcano south of the capital, as Colom late Thursday issued the emergency decree lasting at least 15 days for the three departments nearest the eruption, which began Wednesday night and has since built in intensity. AFP PHOTO/Jorge UZON. (Photo credit should read JORGE UZON/AFP/Getty Images)
  • The Lokon volcano erupts near Tomohon on July 15, 2011. The Indonesian volcano erupted late July 14, spewing rocks, lava and ash hundreds of metres into the air, an official said, three days after its alert status was raised to the highest level. There has been a significant rise in volcanic activity at Mount Lokon on Sulawesi Island since June 9, prompting hundreds of people to evacuate the area. AFP PHOTO / TENGKU (Photo credit should read TENGKU/AFP/Getty Images)
  • The Tungurahua Volcano is seen from Juive Grande, Ecuador, on November 28, 2011. Authorities in Ecuador upgraded a possible eruption warning from yellow to orange, as the activity of the volcano raised suddenly. AFP PHOTO / Pablo COZZAGLIO (Photo credit should read PABLO COZZAGLIO/AFP/Getty Images)
  • ST. PIERRE, MARTINIQUE - MAY 8: Mount Pelee volcano erupts and kills 30,000 people on May 8, 1902 at St. Pierre, Martinique. (Photo by Archive Farms/Getty Images)
  • A little girl watches a mushroom-shaped cloud forming in the sky as the nearby Guagua Pichincha volcano near Quito, Ecuador, spouts boiling water and ash during the third consecutive phreatic eruption of the day 7th October 1999. (Photo by Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images)
  • NUKU'ALOFA, TONGA - MARCH 18: An undersea volcano is seen erupting off the coast of Tonga, sending plumes of steam, ash and smoke up to 100 metres into the air, on March 18, 2009 off the coast of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga. The volcano, which is situated approximately 6 miles off of the main Tongan island of Tongatapu, is one of around 36 undersea volcanos clustered in the area. There is currently no danger to residents of the island as the gases are blown offshore, and residents noted the eruptions began on Monday after a series of sharp earthquakes were felt in the capital. (Photo by Dana Stephenson//Getty Images)
  • ALASKA - MAY 23: (FILE PHOTO) In this photo provided by NASA, The eruption of the Cleveland Volcano is seen as photographed by an Expedition 13 crewmember on the International Space Station May 23, 2009 in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The Cleveland Volcano has erupted again yesterday sending a cloud of ash 15,000 feet into the sky according to reports on December 30, 2011. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)
  • One of the many eruptions of Mayon Volcano, near Legazpi City in the Philippines, 1938. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  • NEW ZEALAND - APRIL 07: Mt Ruapehu erupts again following it's major eruption in September 1995. This was the view looking north east 31,000 feet above the Taranaki coast from an Ansett commercial flight. The pilot estimated the ash cloud had risen 40,000 feet. (Photo by Ross Land/Getty Images)
  • ROTA, NICARAGUA - NOVEMBER 23: The Cerro Negro Volcano, 130kms northeast of Managua, erupts 22 November, sending lava 200 meters into the air. Vulcanologist say the population living around the volcano is in no danger for now. (Photo credit should read RODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • CHILE - APRIL 22: Picture taken in May 1960 of an eruption of the Puyehue Volcano, some 1120 km south from Santiago of Chile. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STF/AFP/Getty Images)
  • AMBATO, ECUADOR: Tungurahua an Ecuadorian volcano erupts 07 September 2001. Una explosion de gases y cenizas se produjo en el volcan Tungurahua cuando se realizaba la inaguracion de los XIV Juegos Bolivarianos en la Ciudad de Ambato, Ecuador, el 07 de setiembre de 2001. El volcan Tungurahua vecino a la ciudad de Ambato mantiene actividad volcanica desde hace dos anos . AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)
  • ETNA, ITALY: A car arrives at the Etna volcano, in the night of 26-27 July 2001. Europe's most active volcano is in eruption since 12 July 2001. The lava was closing in Thursday on the deserted Sapienza tourist center at an altitude of nearly 2,000 meters (6,600 feet), and by late Thursday had flowed to within only 100 meters (yards) of built-up strctures. AFP PHOTO GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)
  • 1943: Paricutin volcano, in Mexico, during its eruption. On the first day it reached a height of 100 feet and within three weeks it had covered an area of 1square mile with lava. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
  • March 1944: A cloud of ash hangs over Vesuvius during its worst eruption in more than 70 years. In the foreground is the city of Naples. The nearby towns of Massa and San Sebastiano were destroyed by the flow of lava. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
  • April 1958: Naturalist photographer, Charles Lagus filming for the BBC from the crater lip of 'Bromo', Java's most spectacular volcano as a cloud of volcano ash and smoke fill the sky. (Photo by Charles Lagus/BIPs/Getty Images)
  • Ash spew from Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City, as seen from San Mateo Ozolco, in the Mexican central state of Puebla, on July 4, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Pablo Spencer (Photo credit should read Pablo Spencer/AFP/Getty Images)
  • A family watches the Copahue volcano spewing ashes from Caviahue, Neuquen province, Argentina, some 1500 km southwest of Buenos Aires on December 22, 2012. The authorities of Chile and Argentina issued yellow alerts due to the eruption of the Copahue volcano, placed in the border between both countries. AFP PHOTO / Antonio Huglich (Photo credit should read Antonio Huglich/AFP/Getty Images)
  • N 360995 48: Mount Saint Helen in Washington state erupts on May 22, 1980. (Photo by John Barr / Liaison Agency)
  • Lava spews from a crater of the giant Etna Volcano on the southern Italian island of Sicily on January 6, 2012. A column of hot ash spewed high into the sky from Italy's Mount Etna on the Mediterranean island of Sicily on January 5, as Europe's highest active volcano rumbled back to life. AFP PHOTO/ MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO (Photo credit should read MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO/AFP/Getty Images)
  • 381403 01: A yellow flag flies in the foreground near the base of the Popocatepetl volcano November 6, 2000 in Puebla, Mexico as an indication of an increased state of alert regarding the activity of the volcano. The yellow flag was put up one day earlier, and if the flag next moves to red, the population of the village would be evacuated by the army. (Photo by Susana Gonzalez/Newsmakers)
  • Lightning is seen amid a cloud of ash billowing from Puyehue volcano near Osorno in southern Chile, 870 km south of Santiago, on June 5, 2011. Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in half a century on June 4, 2011, prompting evacuations for 3,500 people as it sent a cloud of ash that reached Argentina. The National Service of Geology and Mining said the explosion that sparked the eruption also produced a column of gas 10 kilometers (six miles) high, hours after warning of strong seismic activity in the area. AFP PHOTO/CLAUDIO SANTANA (Photo credit should read CLAUDIO SANTANA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • A cloud of smoke and ash is seen over the Grimsvoetn volcano on Iceland on May 21, 2011. The cloud rising up from Grimsvoetn as a result of the eruption was seen first time around 1900 GMT and in less than an hour it had reached an altitude of 11 kilometres (6.8 miles),
  • UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Eruption of Vesuvius' by Pierre Jacques Votaire,(1729-1790) French painter. Oil on canvas. Musee des Beaux Arts, Le Havre. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
  • As seen from inside the almost deserted US Clark Air Base, a giant volcano mushroom cloud exploses some 20 kilometers high from Mount Pinatubo, 12 June 1991. (Photo credit should read ARLAN NAEG/AFP/Getty Images)
  • A plume of smoke rises from the crater of Mount Shinmoedake in the Kirishima mountain range of Kagoshima prefecture on Japan's southern island of Kyushu on February 4, 2011. The 1,421-metre (4,689-feet) Shinmoedake volcano in the Kirishima range, featured in the 1967 James Bond film
  • After laying dormant fo 18 years, the Kilauea Crater suddenly erupted on June 27th and gave a magnificent and spectacular display of red hot lava, Hawaii, June 1952. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
  • MOUNT MERAPI, INDONESIA - NOVEMBER 12: This satellite image shows the eruption and lava flow November 12, 2010 of Mount Merapi, Indonesia. In a series of eruptions that began October 26 and has killed over 250 and forced 400,000 people from their homes. (Photo by DigitalGlobe/Getty Images)
  • The Tungurahua volcano erupts on May 29, 2010. The Tungurahua, in the central Andes Mountains of Ecuador, started erupting May 28, forcing the evacuation of at least seven villages and closing down the airport and public schools in Guayaquil, the country's largest and most populated city. AFP PHOTO / RODRIGO BUENDIA (Photo credit should read RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • INDONESIA - JANUARY 01: Indonesia, Java Island. Merapi Volcano Eruption In The 1920'S. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
  • SUNDA STRAITS, INDONESIA - NOVEMBER 25: A new cone on the Anak Krakatau, a volcano in the Sunda Straits, spews lava and volcanic debris 25 November. Anak Krakatau, which rises out of the sea in the former crater of Krakatau, has shown renewed activity since early November. Krakatau exploded in 1883 with ash coloring sunsets around the world for two years. The 1883 eruption generated a tidal wave that killed approximately 36,000 people. (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
 

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