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Elephant with howdah. A howdah or houdah (Hindi: हौदा, romanized: haudā, derived from the Arabic هودج hawdaj which means 'bed carried by a camel') also known as hathi howdah (हाथी हौदा hāthī haudā), is a carriage which is positioned on the back of an elephant, or occasionally some other animal such as a camel, used most often in the past to carry wealthy people ...
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Jumbo (December 25, 1860 – September 15, 1885), also known as Jumbo the Elephant and Jumbo the Circus Elephant, was a 19th-century male African bush elephant born in Sudan. Jumbo was exported to Jardin des Plantes , a zoo in Paris , and then transferred in 1865 to London Zoo in England.
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Ever since the Stone Age, when elephants were represented by ancient petroglyphs and cave art, they have been portrayed in various forms of art, including pictures, sculptures, music, film, and even architecture. Elephant scalp worn by Demetrius I of Bactria (205–171 BC), founder of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, as a symbol of his conquest.
4. How do elephants talk to each other? On the ele-phone! 5. How do elephants keep cool in the summer? Ear conditioning! RELATED: Shark Puns That Are Simply Fin-tastic. 6. What do you call an ...
They Called him Suleyman: The Adventurous Journey of an Elephant from the Forests of Kerala to the Capital of Vienna in the middle of the sixteenth Century, collected in Maritime Malabar and The Europeans, edited by K. S. Mathew, Hope India Publications: Gurgaon, 2003 ISBN 81-7871-029-3; Robin Lane Fox, 1974. Alexander the Great. Chapter 24 ...
The baby elephant is obviously adorable. But she caused a wee bit of a scandal when she was first announced. According to WTOL 11, when the animal was born in February, the zoo first believed that ...