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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.

Elephants and lions are found in the interior.

They are famous, too, as hunters of big game, attacking even elephants with sword and spear.

The mode of succession of the teeth in the mastodons exhibits so many stages of the process by which the dentition of elephants has been derived from that of more ordinary mammals.

Elephants, tigers, bears, leopards and other wild animals are found.

In this connexion it is of interest to note that, both in the Mediterranean islands and in West Africa, dwarf elephants of the African type are accompanied by pigmy species of hippopotamus, although we have not yet evidence to show that in Africa the two animals occupy actually the same area.

The idea of an Incarnation of God is absurd; why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker?

Mastodons, like elephants, always have a pair of upper tusks, while the earlier ones likewise have a short pair in the lower jaw, which is prolonged into a snout-like symphysis for their support.

This process is, however, less fully developed than in elephants, and as many as three teeth may be in place in each jaw at one time.

The Hindus are fond of painting the outside of their houses a deep red colour, and of covering the most conspicuous parts with pictures of flowers, men, women, bulls, elephants and gods and goddesses in all the many forms known in Hindu mythology.

Like elephants and buffaloes they lie asleep during the heat of the day, and feed during the night and in the cool hours of early morning and evening.

The remaining and less typical subordinal groups - sometimes ranked as orders by themselves - include among living animals the Proboscidea, cr elephants, and the Hyracoidea, or hyraxes, and among extinct groups the Amblypoda, Ancylopoda, Barypoda, Condylarthra, Litopterna and Toxodontia.

The ancient Greeks and Romans kept in captivity large numbers of such animals as leopards, lions, bears, elephants, antelopes, giraffes, camels, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses, as well as ostriches and crocodiles, but these were destined for slaughter at the gladiatorial shows.

These latter discoveries supply us with the ancestry of the elephants and many other forms. They round out our knowledge of Tertiary history, but leave the problems of the Cretaceous mammals and of their relations to Tertiary mammals still unsolved.

After a severe fight, Anang-pal's elephants were so terror-struck by the fire-missiles flung amongst them by the invaders that they turned and fled, the whole army retreating in confusion and leaving Mahmud master of the field.

Dinotherium is a member of the group Proboscidea, of the line of descent of the elephants.

Even timber cannot be floated down it without the assistance of elephants.

In feng shui, you can use a set of elephants for a source of strength.

In Asia they gave rise to the elephants, while they themselves originated in Africa from ungulates of more normal type.

The molar teeth are six in number on each side, increasing in size from before backwards, and, as in the elephants, with a horizontal succession, the anterior teeth being lost before the full development of the posterior ones, which gradually move forward, taking the place of those that are destroyed by wear.

Mastodons have fewer ridges on their molar teeth than elephants; the ridges are also less elevated, wider apart, with a thicker enamel covering, and scarcely any cement filling the space between them.

Certain of the molar teeth of the middle of the series in both elephants and mastodons have the same number of principal ridges; those in front having fewer, and those behind a greater number.

The wild animals found in the district comprise a few tigers, leopards and wild elephants, deer, wild pig, porcupines, jackals, foxes, hares, otters, &c. The green monkey is very common; porpoises abound in the large rivers.

Arsinoitherium is the precursor of the horned Ungulata; while Moeritherium and Palaeomastodon undoubtedly include the oldest known elephants.

The favourite mode of shooting the tiger is from the back of elephants, or from elevated platforms (machdns) of boughs in the jungle.

There was plenty of time to tour southern India at weekends and to meet elephants to which Tom Lock became particularly attached.

Asian elephants live in groups of about 20 adult females with their young.

Talk of pink elephants calls to mind Dorothy B. Hughes, whom I discovered recently.

They were used to carry virtually anything, from milk in churns to circus elephants.

Male zoo elephants are often kept in solitary confinement due to the greater difficulty in handling them.

Then, after a brief buffet breakfast, the entire entourage follows the elephants to the national park.

The story of elephants being frightened of mice probably came about because elephants are frightened of sudden, unexpected noises or movements.

It included Japanese gymnasts, Sanger's elephants, Henning Orlando's Horses, and trick cyclists.

No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit.

The park is well known for its herds of elephants, and for its unusual tree-climbing lions.

The mahouts have generally worked with the elephants for many years and the elephants respond quickly to the mahouts signals and commands.

In these films cameraman Martyn Colbeck and I followed the lives of one family of elephants led by the distinguished matriarch Echo.

For this study they also took digital photographs, automatically dated and timed, to record visits of elephants to the dead matriarch.

One night we left droppings splattered around in my grandmother's penthouse while elephants scratched mom 's favorite pink Cadillac.

Fossils can be found dating back from when elephants, rhinos and giant moose roamed the land.

A large variety of methods are used, predominantly automobile speedometers, but no method is ascribed to the estimate for elephants.

One idea would be to inject frozen mammoth sperm recovered from the ice into the eggs of female elephants.

Is it a herd of elephants kicking up a dust storm, or a giant caldron of maize being cooked?

Occasionally we saw wide swathes of crushed forest where elephants had passed through, leaving giant piles of dung.

With the Asian elephants, only some males grow large ivory tusks.

Most of these elephants had large ivory, however small tusks of the two small elephants were not taken.

This view may receive some support from the occurrence of a dwarf form of the African elephant in the Congo; and if we regard the latter as a subspecies of Elephas africanus, it seems highly probable that a similar position will have to be assigned to the pigmy European fossil elephants.

It also shows that the anterior molars of elephants do not correspond to the premolars of other ungulates, but to the milk-molars, the early loss of which in consequence of the peculiar process of horizontal forward-moving (From Owen.) FIG.

In elephants there are only two, the last milk-molar and the first true molar (or the third and fourth of the whole series), which are alike in the number of ridges; whereas in mastodons there are three such teeth, the last milk-molar and the first and second molars (or the third, fourth and fifth of the whole series).

In the first place, they lessen the number of separate facts to be explained; in the second, they limit the field within which explanation must be sought, since, for instance, if a particular mode of repetition of parts occur in mosses, in flowering-plants, in beetles and in elephants, the seeker of ultimate explanations may exclude from the field of his inquiry all the conditions individual to these different organic forms, and confine himself only to what is common to all of them; that is to say, practically only the living material and its environment.

It is among the Invertebrata that epidemics of destruction are referred to, though we should bear in mind that it is only the difference in numerical proportion that prevents our speaking of an epidemic of elephants or of rabbits, though we use the term when speaking of blight insects; there is little consistency in the matter, as it is usual to speak of an invasion or scourge of locusts, caterpillars, &c. Insect injuries are very varied in degree and in kind.