Elephants are one mode of transport for park guards, who also make their rounds on foot and, during monsoon floods, in small boats.

对公园守卫来说，大象是一种不错的交通工具，但他们也会步行巡视，而在雨季洪水泛滥的时候，他们又改乘小船。

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When it comes to locomotion, elephants are not exactly fleet of foot. And they seem to hold their legs straighter than other animals do, at least when they walk.

说到行动的话，大象走起路来腿伸得要比其他动物直，并不敏捷。

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Rather than scanning the horizon with their ears, elephants tend to freeze their posture and raise and lower a single foot.

它们不是用耳朵搜索地平线，而是保持静止，然后提起和放下一只脚。

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Another is the foot-lifting that many elephants display prior to the arrival of another herd.

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He gave the elephants access to an 8-by-8-foot mirror and allowed them to feel it, smell it and look behind it.

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But we weren't going to spend our days there after breakfast the next morning, accompanied by the snort of elephants hidden in nearby trees, we trooped down to the dock and boarded a 30-foot catamaran owned by the lodge.

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