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Elmer Elephant arrives in the yard below Tillie Tiger's treehouse, where several other animal children are celebrating Tillie's birthday. He has a crush on Tillie, and attempts to give her a bouquet of flowers, but Joey the Hippo blows out the candles a bit too hard as Elmer arrives, spattering cake icing all over Elmer's face.
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.
An elephant joke is a joke cycle, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant. Elephant jokes were a fad in the 1960s, with many people constructing large numbers of them according to a set formula. Sometimes they involve parodies or puns. [1] [2] [3] An example of an elephant jokes is: [1 ...
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.
Horton the Elephant is a fictional character from the 1940 book Horton Hatches the Egg [4] and 1954 book Horton Hears a Who!, [5] both by Dr. Seuss.He is also featured in the short story Horton and the Kwuggerbug, first published for Redbook in 1951 and later rediscovered by Charles D. Cohen and published in the 2014 anthology Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories.
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A 1936 black and white Soviet cartoon of How the Whale Got His Throat. [1]A 1938 black and white Soviet cartoon of How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin. [2]The Elephant's Child was twice made into a Soviet cartoon by the Soyuzmultfilm studio, in 1936 (The Elephant's Child [] [3]) and in 1967 (The Elephant's Child [] [4]).
This list of fictional pachyderms is a subsidiary to the List of fictional ungulates.Characters from various fictional works are organized by medium. Outside strict biological classification, [a] the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses; this list also includes extinct mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons, etc.