In some Congo basin forests, poaching kills up to 10 percent of the elephant population annually.
This aquatic period could explain the evolution of the elephant's most characteristic feature its trunk.
Here, you can sleep high above the ground, disturbed, apparently, only by the snoring of the elephant below.
They were all gnats on the back of the elephant that was Yahoo!
Aerial shots of the elephant herd, for example, were shot using a gyro-stabilized Cineflex aerial camera system mounted to the bottom of a helicopter.
Robyn Meredith is Hong Kong bureau chief for Forbes and the author of The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us.
On the evening of April 23, 2005, Karim uploaded the first video to YouTube an eighteen-second clip of him, standing in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, wearing an ill-fitting hiking jacket.
But, says Diana McLain Smith, author of The Elephant in the Room: How Relationships Make or Break the Success of Leaders and Organizations, they could actually be your ticket to dramatic professional growth.
His cramped office at Google.org boasts psychedelic posters, medical texts and awards from aid groups, along with a statue of the elephant-god Ganesh, in Hinduism the Remover of Obstacles (with a rotund belly to match Brilliant's own).
The slaughter of rhino, the decimation of elephant, the forlorn last stand of the tiger - all had their profiles raised as the delegates in Bangkok negotiated their fate.
So being blind they had to reach out and touch the elephant as their way of seeing the elephant.
For it's a term of esteem and appreciation, and this helps explain why in 1861, an earlier Thai monarch established the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant, consisting of six separate grades, which soon became the most frequently-awarded honour in the country, as it remains to this day.
These are some of the code-names from long ago of the defended hill outposts and paratroop drop-zones set in the waving elephant grass of the Indochinese highlands at Dien Bien Phu.
One of Les Mis's student revolutionaries, Gavroche, takes refuge in the massive Elephant of the Bastille, the model for a never-built statue that stood in Place de la Bastille in the first half of the 19th century. (For the film, it was recreated at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England.) Though the pachyderm is long gone, the July Column commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 now stands in its place.
The team of volunteers, set up two years ago, is touring the resort of Pattaya, bringing free medical care to the growing number of elephant encampments that cater to the tourist industry.
Heart pounding in my chest, I stood my ground, eyes unblinkingly focused on every movement of the big elephant.
But Joshua Plotnik of the Think Elephant International Foundation modified the test.
Further down we have mythical beasts with the trunk of an elephant, the head of an ox, and the feet of a sheep.
That would be an act worthy of upstaging the elephant parade!
The peninsula is connected to the rest of the island by the Elephant Pass, a narrow causeway that the government has controlled for more than a decade from a huge military base.
The recipient of this vengeful act of royal generosity was thus confronted with the high costs of looking after the white elephant, and as often as not went broke as a result.
Female filmmakers are represented by the likes of legendary editor Anne Coates, who worked on movies like Lawrence of Arabia and The Elephant Man and Lena Dunham, one of Hollywood's hottest talents thanks to her TV show Girls.
Much of the attention on elephant poaching has been in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo but with demand for ivory growing and prices rocketing in recent years, poachers have sought out the forest elephants in the vast expanses of Minkebe.
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She has, on occasion, worn saris to work, and she keeps an image of Ganesh, the elephant-headed deity of good fortune, in her office.
Indeed, spirituality lies at the heart of Diwali, with devotees specifically seeking blessings from two prominent Hindu deities: Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and Ganesh, the elephant-headed god of good fortune and auspicious beginnings.
Are the Republicans counting on voters not having the memory of an elephant and just remembering the past four years?
Midbite into an ostrich burger at lunch one day, I watched the vanguard of an elephant herd emerge onto the lagoon shore, about 100 yards away, and each evening I trained my binoculars on the red lechwe gathered in the shallows, their russet coats burnished by the sun's slanting rays.
In one building, just past a small statue of the beloved Hindu elephant god Ganesha, robots pick up pieces of sheet metal and feed them into a series of 30-foot-tall stamping presses every ten seconds until the left-side door of a Tata Safari SUV is formed.
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