In January 2023, pictures of three Asian elephant mothers and seven elephant babies are popular on the Internet. They are eating, playing and sleeping in Pu’er, Yunnan. People follow them online. They say that the pictures are very fun.

These years, Chinese people are working hard to protect (保护) wild Asian elephants. Their number is from about 150 to more than 300 in China now. But when more elephants go into villages, they begin to affect people’s lives. They eat crops or damage (破坏) people’s homes.

People do many things to make it better. They want to live a happy life and protect the animals, too. Cameras and drones (无人机) take photos of Asian elephants in the wild. People make an app to tell where elephants are. What’s more, many people make fences (栅栏) to stop elephants from going into schools and homes. Villagers even grow food for elephants in some places.

Things work well. People are now living happily with elephants.

Jeff has a pet. It’s a dog. It is white. Jeff likes it very much. He thinks the dog is very smart. It can play ball games and it can buy newspapers for Jeff. Every morning, Jeff puts one dollar into the dog’s mouth and it goes to the shop to buy newspapers for Jeff.

Jeff has a good friend Mark. Jeff tells Mark about his smart dog. But Mark doesn’t believe it. Today, Mark comes to see Jeff in the morning. Jeff is playing with his dog. Mark says, “I will give your dog money. I don’t think it can buy newspapers.”

“Have a try,” says Jeff.

Then Mark puts money into the dog’s mouth and the dog walks out. After ten minutes, the dog doesn’t come back. After an hour, the dog doesn’t come back.

“How much money do you give the dog?” asks Jeff.

“Five dollars.”

“Well, if it has five dollars, it will go to the movies,” says Jeff.

Penguin 337 is one year old. He lives in an aquarium(水族馆) in Japan with his other friends. But about two months ago, the penguin climbed over a tall wall and swam away in Tokyo Bay. The workers in the aquarium said the wall was about 13 feet tall.

After the penguin lost two months ago, the aquarium called on people of the city to look for the penguin. They were worried that the penguin could be dangerous in the water because of the dirty water. But to their surprise, the penguin is happy and healthy swimming in the water when people find him.

On May 24, workers in the aquarium caught the penguin after someone called them. Then Penguin 337 came back to meet his other penguin friends after having a two-month vacation.