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after more than a year and a half of legal wrangling , four female thai elephants are in their new mall amid australian sydney zoo.

A pair of gaily painted domesticated elephants regard one another in a Jaipur park in India.

He said the elephants were killed Saturday.

Elephants like to have one master just as dog do, and are capable of a considerable degree of personal affection.

And the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and thirty-two elephants, trained to battle.

When the old man heard the king's reply, he took his two sons to the royal elephant stables and selected twenty of the best elephants.

I can't wait to see the elephants at the zoo. I wish I could see them in their natural habitat, but a zoo is the next best thing.

The five men, who had heard of elephants but had never been close to one, asked the rider to allow them to touch the great animal.

The hunter would not have fired the shots if he had not seen a herd of elephants coming towards his campsite.

Scientists don't yet know why wild elephants seem to fare so much better than their zoo-raised counterparts.

"And I saw the elephants, " she said, "and what do you think they were doing? Picking up peanuts with their vacuums ! "

While other elephants will be anxiously Minato over, try to help it stand up, but in fact did not of much use.

To see how much less land birch would have covered, they used elephants as a proxy.

The idea of the herd of elephants made the little prince laugh. "We would have to put them one on top of the other, " he said.

So he introduced the genes of elephants into a cat's embryo. The result was - Phooey , a cat that was as big as an elephant!

Since African elephants live where the sun is usually blazing hot, they use their trunks to help them keep cool.

Eleanor died where she fell, and was subsequently visited by elephants not only from her own family, but from four other families as well.

Mice are supposed to strike terror into the hearts of elephants - at least if Disney cartoons are to be believed.

He took God's power for granted, and went up with his infantry regiments, his horsemen by the thousands, and his eighty elephants.

Two main techniques have been used for training elephants, which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle.

They have a sense of mischief. You know, if you see elephants down at the water hole flying around, you know. . .

How much the weight of 6 elephants.

The thought of a hundred elephants-worth of water suspended in the sky begs another question - what keeps it up there?

'I've been out counting dead elephants, where else! ' Slamming the door of the truck, I stomp off to the kitchen for a cup of black coffee.

So in this case, at least, evolution selects for elephants that have memories strong enough to remember stuff from their childhood.

How much hay do the elephants eat?

he took elephants, camels, lions and monkeys to his wedding.

There were many things to see: elephants, lions, men who flew through the air on swinging bars and funny men called clowns.

As they tend to do whenever they encounter any elephant bones, the elephants first gather around the bones in a defensive circle. . .

Chimpanzees, elephants, buffaloes and a reddish-brown antelope known as the bongo also occur in this protected area.

The divergence of the two species took place around the time of the divergence of Asian elephants and woolly mammoths.

Or if you want to convert it to something that might be a little more meaningful . . . think of elephants.

The poor cat then made friends with the lion and lived with him until one day they met a herd of elephants.

Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants.

Only now it was not a stump because all the pulling had stretched it into the long trunk that elephants have now.

And over the last decade, I traveled to over 40 countries to see jaguars and bears and elephants and tigers and rhinos.

You know, elephants have all of the characteristics that we really admire. So they have that playfulness within them.

There they were glad to see a lot of their favorite animals-tigers, lions, monkeys and elephants.

Orphaned when she was young, Cherry caused problems with a local village, and, was even rejected by the other elephants.

"We got to protect the elephants, " said Mr. Lokinyi, whose hooded eyes now glow with the zeal of a convert.

If I closed my eyes, I could definitely see pink elephants, though. Dancing ones, with psychedelic trombones . . .

"At the moment the elephants have all been frightened away and you're shooting monkeys out of trees, " says Mr Howie.

'We did a survey and found that 70% of Chinese consumers did not know that elephants were killed for ivory.

Overall, the CITES trade ban seems to have worked pretty well for elephants.

Mr Crawford recalled a day when he and Mr Livingston found themselves walking down the street with a herd of circus elephants.

Although they are one of the biggest and most charismatic animals on Earth, elephants would not last long on Strictly Come Dancing.

He said six gun shots had rung out, then silence followed by another six gunshots, and screams and trumpeting of elephants.

That sounds like a wry riddle, but it's a real challenge in Southeast Asia, where hungry elephants emerge from forests to gobble crops.

The goal of our experiment is to see if elephants can sense vibrations in the ground.

The children came galumphing into the house like a herd of elephants.

We often see elephants in a circus act. They are cute and clever. The elephant is hardworking and strong enough to carry wood.

The Moscow Circus has resorted to vodka plenty of it to keep two Indian elephants warm while they perform in chilly Mongolia.

He seemed to have the speed of lightning, the might of a hundred elephants, and the glorious confidence of one from some other world.

Noot obeys her parents, but in her free time she decorates miniature umbrellas with her beloved elephants.

They use their own music to tell people: Yunnan is not only cross the bridge noodle and elephants, as well as the standard HEAVY METAL! ! !

It's reasonable to assume that the rhinos, like the elephants, came from elsewhere; but had they any prior experience of elephants?

The elephant has the longest memory of any member of the animal kingdom and can even remember where other elephants have died.

Two wild elephants have gone on a rampage in southern India, killing at least one person, officials say.

During the last 20 years elephants have been hemmed in by the increasing number of people moving into the area in search of arable land.

The Beijing government appears to have considered the issue of Olympic white elephants as well .

Ancestors of modern elephants lived on all continents except Australia. Ancient Asians were known as the woolly mammoth.

After that he decided that he'd had enough and stumbled back up on deck to clear his head of rum and elephants alike.

In Chad alone, at least 30 elephants are known to have been poached last month.

The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.

Hard white substance, a variety of dentin, that makes up the tusks of such animals AS elephants, walruses, and preserved mammoths.

Then he punished his adviser, the criminal minister, and returned to Kosala with all his troops and elephants.

They thought the elephants belonged to my project so they threw all their anger at me.

Dr Donlan argues, in light of this, that moving lions, cheetahs and elephants from Africa to America is not a stupid idea.

"Elephants are the ultimate symbol of intelligent strength, therefore the perfect symbol for a political party. "

Jane: No, I'm going to the zoo. I love to see giraffes and elephants. They are large but peaceful animals.

Then they compared mammoth hemoglobin to that of their living cousins, Asian elephants, at 37, 25 and 10 degrees Celsius.

As the day turned into night, this sons cheerfully led the twenty elephants back to the royal stableswent to tell their king the good news.

The fans laid the blame at the door of the coach after the Elephants lost the championship game.

Foster Partners took the challenge and is currently finishing the Elaphant House at the Copenhagen Zoo, for a group of Indian elephants.

They say that in a film or on TV we may see elephants, or monkeys, dogs, bear, or other animals doing a lot of things.

We received a radio message that Bernard Mutondo [one of the commercial poachers] was coming to camp to shoot elephants, to kill them.

If it pleases your majesty, you might send twenty elephants to tote water to save those fish.

State forest department officials said the young elephants came from forest about 35km (22 miles) from the city.

These records made it possible for the researchers to analyze 40 years of data on 800 African and Asian elephants in zoos across Europe.

Elephants comprised the most feared ranks of ancient Indian armies and spread in use through Mesopotamia and parts of the Mediterranean.

The fate of the tusks is unknown. That of the elephants isn't.

Elephants simply did not like dogs, and dogs were afraid of elephants.

Forest rangers patrol with elephants as part of a local government campaign against illegal logging in Jantho, Indonesia.

There has been a move against keeping elephants in cramped enclosures at city zoos.

Elephants would definitely be excluded; poaching of them has begun to increase again, especially as China, which loves ivory, gets richer.

It's no coincidence that elephants, like the other animals that pass the test, have complex social systems.

If one had to sum up 2009 in one sentence, it was the year in which elephants bred like rabbits.

Just add CPU, disk, and memory until the system can handle the elephants and all the problems go away, right?

yes, elephants though bulky, but they are very docile, you continue to see.

The children love to watch the large elephants at the zoo.

The cause of the excitement, elephants mating . Payne and fellow researchers shot this footage in Africa from atop an observation post .

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

With the help of computers, I can insert a herd of elephants into a scene, or create an earthquake.

It sounds as though a herd of elephants are running down the stairs.

One day the king to recruit the bridegroom, a problem, let an elephant shake, in the end make elephants nods pool, into a hospital.

At the time they were captured, only small elephants could be transported, so no adult male was present at Pilanesberg when they arrived.

I was doing a hike through the jungle as a tourist. I saw these large elephants tethered to a small stake.

Some of these paintings, when you look at them very close, odd things appear that really look like horses or birds or crocodiles, elephants.

The Sumatra elephants were caught by authorities in Riau province after they raided crops and a village earlier this month.

Other key aspects of the design are the result of research into the elephants natural habitat.

The test results suggest elephants - or at least Happy - are self-aware.

We are not like rats dropped into a psychologist's maze or elephants thrust into a circus. We made this unnatural world.

She died of thirst, in agony, one of seven being monitored with radio collars by Save the Elephants, a Kenya-based conservation group.

Elephants in various hues and lamplight around the pool create a unique romantic atmosphere of Thailand.

During the dry season, elephants in Chad's Zakouma National Park drink at the last remaining water hole.

It was more like a herd of elephants running through the room!

8th, several days elephants have suddenly died, everybody runs looks at it.

They have given their lives over to a passionate campaign to save endangered African elephants.

Wild elephants, however, can be trapped fairly easily, and they quickly become tame enough to obey their trainer's commands.

Although it may weigh as much as twenty elephants, this giant of the sea feeds on sea plants and animals.

And I have learned, you know what, cars and motorbikes and elephants, that's not freedom.

Elephants have become trapped in steep-sided drainage ditches in parts of Assam north of the Brahmaputra.

Rather than running away as they did with the smell, the elephants acted aggressively toward the red clothing.

Lions, leopards, hippopotamuses and elephants have often been more than a match for a greedy but careless crocodile.

A great Hindu temple with elephants carved in relief at the doorway stands on a hillside in the western suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee.

I'm going to the zoo. I love to see giraffes and elephants.

Both sexes of the African elephant have tusks, but only the male sex of Asian elephants have tusks that protrude beyond the lips.

Dr. Tomonaga and his colleagues have found independent invasions in other mammals, including ground squirrels, guinea pigs and elephants.

"The most powerful piece in the game, " he announced, as he removed one of Qavo's elephants.

But full-grown elephants are so heavy they often prefer not to bend their knees to lie down on the ground and so they sleep standing up.

Elephants and buffalo stroll down to the water, and leatherback turtles make their nests: his elephants, his buffalo, his turtles.

The jumbo row mounted earlier this year after several elephants died in zoos across the US, some from complications of sore feet.

EXCEPT, COULD YOU KEEP THE ELEPHANTS FROM RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE STAIRS?

Elephants would die out soon if men were allowed to shoot as many as they wish.

The World Wildlife Fund points to Sumatra's rapid deforestation rate as the main cause for the increased threat to the elephants.

Elephants would die out if men were allowed to shoot as many as they wished.

Over the decades poachers and desperate villagers raided the parks and decimated the populations of elephants, hippos, and lions.

A Thai architect took his love for elephants and designed a luxury residence and office building in the shape of a pachyderm.

Though 75% of the raw materials are elephants' feces, these paper products do not stink.

And I saw many animals in the wild droves, elephants and that was fascinating.

Women are like elephants. Everyone likes to look at them but no-one likes to have to keep one.

It was fun to see so many elephants marching and dancing.

This will inevitably include some white elephants, but in a poor country, the return on infrastructure investment is generally high.

However, the elephants showed much milder reaction to clothing previously worn by the Kamba people, agriculturalists who pose little threat.

any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long up curved tusks.

In fact, elephants dislike ants so much that they avoid acacia trees that harbor the tiny, six-legged nectar-suckers.

As symbols of peace and auspicious animals, elephants were often used in imperial rituals or ceremonies in ancient China.

Oh, it's real. In fact, a study on elephant memory shows that having a strong memory helps elephants survive in the wild.

Elephants can live up to 60 years, with females surviving long past their reproductive age.

At the end of last year Mrs Marten decided to sell a pair of jade elephants that had once stood in Emperor Qianlong's throne room.

Hey, you elephants, none of you cares about my feelings.

It's regrettable that I could not work with tambourines and elephants, giants doing cartwheels, or statues wearing high heels.

A unique aerial voyage over the Namibian desert reveals elephants on a long trek for food and desert lions searching for wandering Oryx.

wly A newly captured elephant is led out of a forest by trained elephants in Malaysia.

Elephants have the largest brain, nearly 11 pounds on average of any mammal that ever walked the earth.

They chose nine pieces, including the jade elephants and a rare imperial white jade bell of which only three others are known to exist.

In 2002 elephants in India found some rice beer and went on a drunken rampage.

During the day, we'll walk across the land, following the footprints of big animals such as elephants, lions and giraffes.

The elephants can congregate here, or out in the adjacent paddocks.

Her team aims to generate stem cells for at least 10 other species, including snow leopards and some species of elephants.

Capturing wild elephants is not allowed in Sri Lanka, although the government has allowed some to be captured and tamed for special reasons.

Keepers said Asian elephants have the longest gestation period - at 22 months - of any animal in the world.

Today, the area in which elephants have been killed by farmers for trampling their crops is much smaller.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

Mr Ramdas said that the two captured elephants would be released back into the wild.

the pavilion houses a huge stone tortoise by the famous avenue of the animals, where pairs of lions, elephants, camels.

Rented to temples for use in festivals the elephants fetch about U. S $230, 000 a year in total.

The discovery that elephants used to live here was shocking to us.

When such elephants fight, bystanders are likely to be trampled.

Making matters worse, herders are driving their livestock into the elephants' domain in search of fresh pasture and competing for forage.

Adding elephants to a network where mice are already running free predictably results in lots of trampled mice.

Trunk: Elephants breathe through two nostrils at the end of their trunk, which is an extension of the nose.

Giant elephants and giraffes appeared on hoardings across the capital to mark the occasion.

When the hordes of elephants enjoy playing in the afterglow of sunset, your feelings for that?

According to contemporary histories, Roman legions either let pigs loose among elephants or suspended them from walls of a besieged city.

When dogs used to do this when they saw elephants, the elephants would get annoyed and chase them.

The blue elephants landed in the sea and their wings became fins. They are whales, the trunkless elephants of the oceans.

In general, elephants eat a higher percentage of grass during the wet season, with foliage, roots and bark predominating in the dry months.

Elephants are the only animals with four knees.

Some endangered species, such as African Elephants and Wild Horses, are beginning to recover.

Elephants can produce low-frequency vocalizations called "rumbles, " which are barely audible to the human ear.

Male elephants (bulls) are far larger than females (cows) and weigh up to 6300kg.

"Pink Elephants on Parade" and "When I See an Elephant Fly" are the only songs that stick out.

"I'd really like to meet someone who reads Murakami, " said a woman (20s, bangs, Water for Elephants).

The idea is to burn these bricks around the edges of fields to keep elephants away.

There are more elephants here than there are in any other country in Africa.

Elephants are thus on par with apes for fast learning of deliberate cooperation with a partner.

As Asian elephant herds dwindle, African elephants have become the only source of ivory.

Today the best coaches treat the media as the circus trainer treats his elephants, horses or lions.

That is the finding of a major study of how forest elephants deal with oil exploration in central Africa.

It isn't right to kill whales or elephants for their meat, but it's hard to stop the killing.

The elephants' medicines include hemoglobin boosters and live boosters among other traditional treatments.

Poisoning elephants attracts far less attention than shooting them with a gun, wildlife officials note.

For instance, let's take one of the papers I refer to in my bibliography: Rodney Brooks's 1990 article "Elephants Don't Play Chess. "

Indonesian police and forest rangers riding elephants approach illegal settlements in the Gunung Leuser national park, Sumatra.

He told Dumbledore would be tantamount to ants play with elephants, Where is the opponent.

AFRICA'S elephants are divided between the savannahs of eastern and southern Africa and the forests of central Africa.

The rich folk can worry about saving the elephants; the poor have more urgent problems at hand.

If they had never interacted with elephants before, may they not have been vulnerable to bullying by the larger creatures?

Elephants more than 30 years of age , hower, are considered a bit too old to learn new tricks and are set free.

Our primate relatives show varying degrees of convolution in their brains, as do other intelligent creatures like elephants.

DNA evidence shows that the closest living relatives of elephants are manatees , aquatic mammals found in the Atlantic Ocean.

Large animals generally, elephants, racehorses, horses generally, animals with valuable fur.

In Kenya, researchers found that elephants react differently to clothing worn by men of the Maasai and Kamba ethnic groups.

And since underground signals travel farther than airborne ones, Caitlin suggests elephants will stomp their feet. . .

GPS transponders also now track paroled criminals, errant pets, migrating elephants and retreating glaciers.

Mammoths are extinct elephants with a hairy skin and long tusks, curving upward.

Mark Owens said we had to do anything to stop them, or else the elephants would all die.

"Because there were elephants and lions, and the people were scared and went somewhere else. Let's go somewhere else. "

This exploitation of familial ties in the sophisticated social system of elephants has been repeated thousands of times in Africa.

The sando's muted color palette was inspired by the typical hues of large terrestrial animals, like elephants and whales.

Now let's see the African elephants, it is the largest mammal and second highest animal on land with a alert and irascible temperament.

On dreams: Oh , but for flying elephants and impossible staircases and weeping willows and talking walruses ------where would we be?

The Indo-Malayan lowlands are home to Asian elephants, clouded leopards, wild water buffalo, gaur, hornbills, cobras and geckos.

Learning of this, the King of Kosala began marching his troops and elephants towards Benares.

Despite being banned from streetwalking in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, roving elephants are relatively common on city outskirts.

From just above the treetops, elephants can be seen bulldozing through thick brush.

ELEPHANTS are not fazed by dynamite explosions, but change their behaviour significantly to avoid humans.

He conceded he would kill elephants, "for the right price. "

Elephants are very powerful and can be tamed. An array of elephants on the battlefield is invincible. 300 B.

When two elephants fight, a senior International Monetary Fund official once told the Financial Times, the grass gets trampled.

He loves the elephants so all the killing made him very upset.

The photographer took a photo of a herd of elephants.

Elephants are social creatures. They sometimes hug by wrapping their trunks together in displays of greeting and affection.

Their cousins are the manatees, the trunkless elephants of the rivers.

When they finally did see a small family of elephants, by a river, they noticed their skittishness.

Why is the snake coming out of the box? Do elephants like bamboo?

The trees are found across the African savanna and are normally devoured and trampledby hungry elephants.

Many plants and animals are going extinct. Mammoths, which are related with Asia elephants, are now extinct.

Construction, destruction and disillusion of the dreams: Thematic comparison of "The Cat in the Rain" and "Hills Like White Elephants"

While observing elephants in Tsavo, I was focused on an older female the matriarch of the group.

Elephants are highly intelligent animals whose sophisticated social ties are exploited by poachers.

The aggressive elephants are simply defending their territories, apparently.

Elephants were the original source, but the business has since expanded to other non-meat-eating animals.

Given the scale of China's investment, some white elephants were perhaps to be expected.

In south-eastern Zimbabwe and elsewhere, elephants were the innocent victims of callous land mine warfare.

In recent years some elephants, apparently overworked, have turned on their trainers, sometimes killing them.

The authorities are now on the hunt to catch the criminals, having extracted bullets from the bodies of both elephants.

Kenya has two million interrogatory animals which include wildebeests , elephants and elands.

According to one popular anecdote, one of Nunb's lines translates to "one thousand herds of elephants are standing on my foot. "

Wild elephants are increasingly entering villages in search of food as deforestation destroys their habitat.

Forested areas which were once the home to large herds of elephants are now being developed for farming, forcing the elephants out.

Some people hunt elephants for ivory. The hunted animals are often killed cruelly.

The elephants can quickly learn to know man. s voice. They even know when his master is happy ang when he is angry.

All the great apes 'pass' the test, along with dolphins, whales and elephants.

Unable to chew, elephants consume food in large gulps.

The best part of the day was when elephants took bananas from tourists.

At the 2, 700-acre preserve, the 19 African and Asian elephants in residence are allowed to exist as they would in the wild.

A jumbo-sized prosthesis , the first of its kind given to elephants, helped Mosha get back on sure footing.

Both male and female African elephants have tusks they use to dig for food and water and strip bark from trees.

Either way, the Congo basin is " haemorrhaging elephants" , says TRAFFIC, which monitors trade in wildlife.

But there are limits: Such huge flows of wealth can be squandered on corruption or showcase projects that turn into white elephants.

One official blamed the rampage on human encroachment into areas traditionally inhabited by elephants.

These beetles subsist entirely on the undigested nutrients in the waste of herbivores like sheep, cattle, and elephants.

Hunting elephants wasn't also illegal and many of these giant mammal die of natural causes every year.

Hemingway strategically used deviation and repetition in the creation of "Hills Like White Elephants" .

Santa shot at in Rio. Electric eels light up Japanese Christmas tree. Singapore elephants get festive gift of boots for jumbo pain.

The notion that mice and elephants and dolphins and sharks should be housed separately is intuitive.

The snake is long, The giraffes are tall, The elephants are very big, The mother lion is scary and the baby lions are cute.

Elephants walking away, taken from the air, Okavango Delta, Botswana.