In a video, an anxious elephant is pacing back and forth. However, the animal instantly calms down upon hearing a song of American singer and actress Cher. The video was the evidence of the pop singer and animal activists' four-year-long efforts to save Kaavan, the world's loneliest elephant.

Kaavan was just a year old when Sri Lankan officials gifted him to Pakistan in 1985. The now 36-year-old Asian elephant spent a large part of the next three decades chained in a small space at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan. He was only brought out regularly to entertain zoo visitors. To make matters worse, his partner Saheli, a female elephant who arrived at the zoo in 1990, died in 2012, leaving the social animal with no companion. Lonely Kaavan's mental and physical health rapidly became worse.

The poor animal's sufferings first caused activists to start a social media campaign that urged Pakistani officials to move him to an elephant sanctuary（保护区）. However, their request fell on deaf ears. In 2016, Cher was looking through her Twitter when she noticed messages by fans urging her to help Kaavan. Cher reached out to fellow animal activists Mark Cowne and his wife, Gina Cowne, to help her launch a social media campaign to help Kaavan. They first pushed for Kaavan to rid chains and then persuaded the zoo to add a tin roof over his shelter, water in the pool, and a tire for him to play with.

While the reforms were encouraging, the team soon realized that more needed to be done and set up Free the Wild, a nonprofit organization devoted to rescuing Kaavan and other wild animals in similar situations. It took four years, but in 2020, an Islamabad high court ordered the Marghazar Zoo to shut down and relocate all its animals to new homes.

For Kaavan, that meant taking a seven-hour flight to the beautiful Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary. The elephant is adjusting extremely well to his new home and has even picked his favorite female elephant from the three he has been interacting with since arrival.

People often say that man can change nature or human being is the king of nature. According to the power of nature, however, man cannot live without nature that is offering man with fresh air to breathe, clean water to drink and various food to eat. Besides, animals in nature can help our human in some way.

One man shared his story with some special animals on TikTok.

Ten months ago, Ben started living on his own in Sydney because of the outbreak of the COVID-19. He was feeling very lonely during lockdown（封锁）-he missed his families and friends so much-and that’s when the birds started visiting him.

At first it was just one. He began interested in the regular friend and named it Peter.

“I couldn’t leave for the next hour and a half-I just sat there just let him play. It’s full of life and hope,” Ben told ABC News.

Over the next few months, Peter would come and go. Eventually, Peter started bringing his “girlfriend”.

“That was a turning point,” he said. “And it was strange, because it was when I started to really feel my loneliness in lockdown that the birds were coming more and more often. And whether or not that happened by chance, that’s when I started to take notice of them. They saved me from the deep and helpless loneliness and began to value life.”

Ben posted a video of his new friendship to TikTok where it instantly went viral.

Bats appear many times in literature and history, and have different roles depending on where you find them. But bats have an important role to play in our eco-system, and some of them are becoming endangered. International Bat Night was established to help people grasp some facts about bats. While we often think of bats as predators (捕食者) feeding on blood, the truth is quite different. Yes, there are bats that feed on blood, but they mostly feed on insects.

Bats are one of the major factors in reducing the numbers of obnoxious night insects like mosquitoes (蚊子) . If you’re a camper, you’ll know how uncomfortable mosquitoes can make an otherwise pleasant camping. There are also bats that feed on nectar (花蜜) , and help to spread the seeds of plants, in many cases where they’re the only ones working to help those plants produce! These are just a few of the qualities that bats own. There are far more than that, and International Bat Night is a great time to learn about them.

At International Bat Night, you can enjoy the quiet of the evening and watch the skies in your nearest bat habitat. Maybe it’s a night out in the woods, or just sitting at your front door if you’re fortunate enough. If you’re feeling both generous and adventurous, you can head out to one of your local Bat Conservatories and celebrate the night with the workers there while making a contribution to their work. Volunteer with them and help protect our flying friends!