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The elephants draw the same painting each time and have learned to draw it line-for-line. [9] In Thailand, several elephant centers exhibit painting elephants. A zoologist who visited one such elephant show concluded that the elephants were being instructed by their trainers on the directions of their brushstrokes through tugs on their ear. [10]
The elephant is the state animal of Kerala and is featured on the emblem of the Government of Kerala, and previously on the coat of arms of Travancore. The elephant is also on the flag of the Kingdom of Laos with three elephants visible, supporting an umbrella (another symbol of royal power) until it became a republic in 1975. Other Southeast ...
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The other elephants immediately realise that the grey elephant must be Elmer and applaud him for his best joke ever. When it begins to rain, the grey paint that Elmer has covered himself with starts to disappear, and Elmer's "true colours" are revealed, much to the delight of his friends, who preferred his multicoloured and fun loving personality.
WCS.org: Forest Elephant Program; ARKive .org: Images and movies of the forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) BBC Wildlife Finder - video clips from the BBC archive; PBS Nature: Tracking Forest Elephants Archived 2008-05-03 at the Wayback Machine; Elephant Information Repository Archived 2009-03-18 at the Wayback Machine — in-depth resource on ...
Many stories tell of isolated young elephants returning to or finding a family, such as "The Elephant's Child" from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, Disney's Dumbo, and Kathryn and Byron Jackson's The Saggy Baggy Elephant. Other elephant heroes given human qualities include Jean de Brunhoff's Babar, David McKee's Elmer, and Dr. Seuss's Horton ...
The African bush elephant is listed as Endangered and the African forest elephant as Critically Endangered on the respective IUCN Red Lists. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] Based on vegetation types that provide suitable habitat for African elephants, it was estimated that in the early 19th century a maximum of 26,913,000 African elephants might have been ...
Elephant and Piggie is a book series for early readers created by Mo Willems. [1] The series, which began in 2007 with two books, features two friends: an antsy male elephant named Gerald, and a vivacious female pig named Piggie. [ 1 ]