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A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.

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Anything huge and ponderous.

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Used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second

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Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant, two elephant, three elephant...

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Ivory.

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A large size of paper, measuring 23 by 28 inches, or sometimes 22 by 30, or (double elephant paper) 26 by 40 inches.

The appearance of the Asiatic elephant is familiar to all.

Further, the skin is stated to be much less rough, with fewer cracks, while a more important difference occurs in the trunk, which lacks the transverse ridges so distinctive of the ordinary African elephant, and thereby approximates to the Asiatic species.

The Indian region is the home of the Indian elephant - one of the two sole remaining representatives of the order Proboscidea.

South of the Thames the thoroughfares crossing the river between Lambeth and Bermondsey converge upon two circuses, St George's and the Elephant and Castle.

Mahmud ordered Hasan Maimandi to take the poet as much gold as an elephant could carry, but the jealous treasurer persuaded the monarch that it was too generous a reward, and that an elephant's load of silver would be sufficient.

The Asiatic elephant inhabits the forest-lands of India, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Cochin China, Ceylon and Sumatra.

A herd of wild elephant can do a great deal of damage to a farmer's crops.

In addition to various sounds produced at other times, an elephant when about to charge gives vent to a shrill loud 'trumpet'.

In size the male African elephant often surpasses the Asiatic species, reaching nearly 12 ft.

Do you really want the mating call of an African elephant blaring out at you at two o'clock in the morning without warning?

He considers pictographic languages ranging from the natural Mayan hieroglyphics and Sumerian cuneiform, to recent experiments such as Elephant's Memory.

You ca n't dunk an elephant in your cup of tea!

This was in response to the untimely death of Pole Pole, a young captive elephant.

Animals include giant panda, elephant, lion, horse, cow, lamb, pig, monkey and teddy bears.

South through Tanzania, our route takes us through Mikumi National Park where we may well see giraffe or elephant grazing along the roadside.

The goad is an elephant goad, used to produce movement from inertia.

Let's untie that knot in the elephant's trunk together!

We also visit a nearby elephant camp and get to know these playful pachyderms!

The fauna includes the elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, giraffe, lion, leopard, cheetah, roan-antelope, hartebeeste, kudu and many other kinds of antelope, wart-hog, hares, quail, partridge, jungle-fowl, bustard and guinea-fowl.

Made from elephant ivory, an image of a snake or reptile resides at the base.

These images can then be analyzed to ascertain what normal elephant locomotion is like.

The Elephant Man you see at once is in monochrome.

Indian nightjar Several of these small, delicate nightjars seen pre-dawn at Bundala together with one spotlighted elephant which gave us rather a start.

Just under 2 fluid ounces of its venom is enough to kill an elephant or twenty people within minutes.

We saw elephant seals and chinstrap penguins that were totally unfazed by our presence.

However, elephant polo in Thailand is not just about the sport.

He's trying to open his eyelids, but he'd have better luck trying to bench press a small elephant with them.

Animals present included red deer, roe deer, horse, boar, bear, wolf, elephant, rhinoceros, lion and hyena!

Atop an elephant in the jungle, go in search of the elusive Royal Bengal tiger and the one-horned rhinoceros.

Asian elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros, orangutan, and tiger populations are all declining because palm oil plantations are encroaching on their habitats.

Now, like the rest of the facility, the elephant's foot is under the thick concrete sarcophagus.

We will visit enormous penguin rookeries, land on beaches ruled by antarctic fur seals and observe southern elephant seals wallowing in mud pools.

In season you can spot various species of penguins, occasionally fur seals, sea lions and elephant seals.

Born Free were shocked to learn of a huge illegal shipment of elephant ivory that has been seized in Hong Kong.

Dodging a charging cheetah or causing an elephant stampede is just a typical afternoon for tiny Tarzan!

The symbol of the Zoo, which was an elephant, will now be the Sumatran tiger.

Be careful not to buy poached ivory souvenirs in Thailand and watch out for elephant ivory trinkets in Hong Kong and China.

The little mouse hopped on the elephant's big long trunk.

Ivory Strictly speaking, the word ivory only applies to the material from which elephant tusks are comprised.

Possibly visit vast penguin rookeries, land on beaches ruled by Antarctic fur seals or observe wallowing southern elephant seals.

Matt's birdwatching buddy, Daffyd, takes a closer look at an elephant seal, and the seals have a good wallow!

It is a parade of wild animals Our world is now a pitiful weakling It groans with the burden of an elephant corpse!

Since we have no way of knowing the future submission rate and it might fall, investment might become a white elephant.

In addition people saw millions squandered by an incompetent Government or the biggest white elephant ever the Dome.

This is proof positive of all the lies we've ever been told about the great nuclear white elephant.

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There is no way of telling the detail of what sporting events they held you can only imagine, perhaps elephant mud wrestling.

In addition to various sounds produced at other times, an elephant when about to charge gives vent to a shrill loud ` trumpet'; and on such occasions rushes on its FIG.

Except where exterminated by human agency (and this has been accomplished to a deplorable extent), the African elephant is a native of the wooded districts of the whole of Africa south of the Sahara.

Several local races of African elephant have been described, mainly distinguished from one another by the form and size of the ears, shape of the head, &c. The most interesting of these is the pigmy Congo race, africanus pumilio, named on the evidence of an immature specimen in the possession of C. Hagenbeck, the well-known animal-dealer of Hamburg, in 1905.