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The Elephant Tower (Danish: Elefanttårnet) (also known as the Elephant Gate (Danish: Elefantporten)) is the most famous landmark of the Carlsberg district in Copenhagen, Denmark, the original brewery site of the Carlsberg Breweries (the area is now under redevelopment as a new neighbourhood). The tower takes its name from four large granite ...
The Order of the Elephant (Danish: Elefantordenen) is a Danish order of chivalry and is Denmark's highest-ranked honour. It has origins in the 15th century, but has officially existed since 1693, and since the establishment of constitutional monarchy in 1849, is now almost exclusively used to honour royalty and heads of state.
The Cremona elephant as depicted in the Chronica maiora, Part II, Parker Library, MS 16, fol. 151v Sketch of Hanno and mahout, after Raphael, c. 1514. The presence of elephants in Europe in historical times back to classical antiquity, but previously, during Pleistocene and before, relatives of elephants were spread across the globe, including ...
HDMS Elephanten (transl. The elephant, from the Order of the Elephant) was a ship of the line of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy that served from 1703 to 1728. [3] There were three other Danish ships-of-the line of the same name, dating from 1684, 1741 and 1773.
Elephant (de Camp book), a science book by L. Sprague de Camp; Elephant, a digital fat face typeface; Elephant folio, a book size; Order of the Elephant, the highest order of Denmark; The Elephant, a nickname for the 426 cu in Chrysler V8 engine; White elephant, an idiom for impractical possessions that are expensive and hard to dispose of
The main source is the most recent atlas survey of mammals in Denmark. [1] The atlas records 88 mammal species in Denmark . Since the atlas was published in 2007, four new species have been recorded in the country: the grey wolf, [ 2 ] golden jackal, [ 3 ] Cuvier's beaked whale [ 4 ] and grey long-eared bat.
Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals which includes the living elephants (belonging to the genera Elephas and Loxodonta), as well as a number of extinct genera like Mammuthus (mammoths) and Palaeoloxodon.
Elephants are typically grey, but African elephants look brown or reddish after rolling in coloured mud. Asian elephants have some patches of depigmentation, particularly on the head. Calves have brownish or reddish hair, with the head and back being particularly hairy.