1/29/12 EMERGING APPETITE 4 ELEPHANT MEAT THREATENS SPECIES: "...new taste for eating elephant meat — everything from trunks to sex organs — has emerged in Thailand and could pose a new threat to the survival of the species Wildlife officials told The Associated Press that they were alerted to national park in western Thailand."The poachers took away the elephants' sex organs and trunks .. for human consumption," Damrong Phidet, director-general of Thailand's wildlife agency, said in a telephone interview. Some meat was to be consumed without cooking, like "elephant sashimi," he said." Http://m.yahoo.com/w/news_america/ap-exclusive-taste-thai-elephant-meat-035353902.html?back=%2Fscience%2F&.ts=1327735867&.intl=us&.lang=en

1/29/12 EMERGING APPETITE 4 ELEPHANT MEAT THREATENS SPECIES: "...new taste for eating elephant meat — everything from trunks to sex organs — has emerged in Thailand and could pose a new threat to the survival of the species Wildlife officials told The Associated Press that they were alerted to national park in western Thailand."The poachers took away the elephants' sex organs and trunks .. for human consumption," Damrong Phidet, director-general of Thailand's wildlife agency, said in a telephone interview. Some meat was to be consumed without cooking, like "elephant sashimi," he said."

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