Aug 21

Jonas Brothers & Ariana Grande!

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The Jonas Brothers Support The Elephant Project!

The Jonas Brothers each hold up a stuffed elephant in support of The Elephant Project, an organization to raise money and awareness for the Alzheimer’s Association.

Here’s how The Elephant Project works: Celebs pose with an elephant beanie baby (because “elephants never forget”) and sign a special Elephant Project card, which are then auctioned off to raise money to fight Alzheimer’s disease. Each auction package comes with an 8″×10″ picture of the celebrity and the elephant, a signed card from that celebrity, and an elephant beanie baby.

Currently, over $21,000 has been raised for Alzheimer’s care, research and support!

Ariana Grande To Perform At Broadway In South Africa Benefit!

Ariana Grande is warming up her vocal cords not for another YouTube cover, but for a bigger benefit — The Broadway in South Africa Benefit!

The event will celebrate and benefit the funding for Broadway in South Africa (BSA), which is a non-profit venture aimed to develop a cross-cultural exchange between youth who are in need and artists who seek to use their talents for change.

Also performing are Frankie Grande, Emma Hunton, Jose Llana, Tracy McDowell, and Lisa Nicole Wilkerson.

It all takes place on October 4th @ 7PM at the Manhattan Center in NYC.

Want tickets? Log onto TicketMaster.com!

Source:

- http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/08/20/the-jonas-brothers-support-the-elephant-project

- http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/08/21/ariana-grande-to-perform-at-broadway-in-south-africa-benefit

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Aug 30

Elephant Facts!

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Check out these interesting elephant facts and learn more about the biggest land mammal in the world. Elephants are unique animals that live in parts of Africa and Asia. Scroll down for more information.

  • There are two types of elephant, the Asian elephant and the African elephant (although sometimes the African Elephant is split into two species, the African Forest Elephant and the African Bush Elephant).
  • Elephants are the largest land-living mammal in the world.
  • Both female and male African elephants have tusks but only the male Asian elephants have tusks. They use their tusks for digging and finding food.
  • Female elephants are called cows. They start to have calves when they are about 12 years old and they are pregnant for 22 months.
  • An elephant can use its tusks to dig for ground water. An adult elephant needs to drink around 210 liters of water a day.
  • Elephants have large, thin ears. Their ears are made up of a complex network of blood vessels which with regulating an elephants temperature. Blood is circulated through their ears to cool them down in hot climates.
  • Elephants have no natural predators. However, lions will sometimes prey on young or weak elephants in the wild. The main risk to elephants is from humans through poaching and changes to their habitat.
  • The elephant’s trunk is able to sense the size, shape and temperature of an object. An elephant uses its trunk to lift food and suck up water then pour it into its mouth.
  • An elephant’s trunk can grow to be about 2 meters long and can weigh up to 140 kg. Some scientists believe that an elephant’s trunk is made up of 100,000 muscles, but no bones.
  • Female elephants spend their entire lives living in large groups called herds. Male elephant leave their herds at about 13 years old and live fairly solitary lives from this point.
  • Elephants can swim – they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water.
  • Elephants are herbivores and can spend up to 16 hours days collecting leaves, twigs, bamboo and roots.


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Source: http://sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/elephant.html

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