| Elephants, tigers and rhinoceroses are successfully bred at the Way Kambas National Park, which is also famous for its elephant training school. |
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| In the desolate reaches of Africa, the real thrill of hunting a leopard and an elephant is alive and kicking. |
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| Their value as gifts was established as early as 802 when the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid sent an elephant to Charlemagne. |
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| The boy possesses the uncanny ability to eat like an elephant and remain as skinny as a stick. |
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| The next morning I awoke to the bellows, grunts and snorts of a dozen huge elephant seals wallowing on the black beach below the sleeping dongas. |
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| It must be dissolved slowly in water, over several days and then filtered to remove traces of Acacia tree bark, elephant hide and rhino horn. |
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| Whereas the goat, dog, cow, and cat are domesticated, the antelope, leopard, elephant, waterbuck, manatee, and hippopotamus must be hunted. |
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| The princess and elephant puppets were also wonderfully designed with pearl-strewn costumes, jewels, and glittering fabrics. |
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| It won't risk damaging itself by joining battle with typical prey, such as an elephant seal. |
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| Plus I am kinda wacked out on pain meds so excuse me if this only makes sense to the pink elephant who is helping me write it. |
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| Fur seals, elephant seals, and the great whales were all hunted to the brink of extinction. |
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| The driver guns it and launches the behemoth into the air like a flying elephant, whereupon it crashes back down on the wrecked cars. |
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| The elephant is the largest vegetarian of all, with a sophisticated social life, loving and affectionately caring for its own. |
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| Could a new school become a white elephant if parents refuse to send their children there? |
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| Last month, Bradford Chamber of Commerce and Industry branded the idea of a Yorkshire assembly as an expensive white elephant. |
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| Suddenly, with the burgeoning stadium looming not as the salvation but as a dangerous white elephant, they sank to bottom of the table. |
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| Accused of being an expensive white elephant, the pressure's been on to re-energise the site. |
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| York would gain absolutely nothing in having an airport, except perhaps a huge white elephant that would cost a large amount of money. |
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| As such, the film stands as a beautiful white elephant, a flagrant waste of time and resources. |
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| There are many possibilities, especially for comparative research in mole rats, agouti, gerbils and elephant shrews. |
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| An elephant kill is an act of courage, and they know the meat and ivory will trade well. |
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| The rest stay aboard a 233-foot Finnish research vessel, taking day trips to see the island's king penguins, elephant seals, and giant petrels. |
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| Endangered include tapir, guar and banteng, wild buffalo, serow, red dog, Asiatic elephant, and leopard. |
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| The elephant went on to its knees and tried to roll on top of Fay, repeatedly trying to stab him with her tusks. |
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| The crater is home to elephant, buffalo, baboon, reedbuck, colobus monkeys, leopard and duikers. |
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| In the same site they also found bones from Komodo dragons and an extinct pygmy elephant called Stegodon. |
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| The African elephant is the largest living land animal and weighs up to 5,400 kg. |
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| Next to the elephant, the white rhino is the largest land mammal and can weigh up to 3.6 metric tons. |
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| South Africa too, will seek more leniency in international trade of elephant products. |
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| King Vajiravudh continued to use the three-headed elephant on the reverse of his coins. |
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| It is the one baht coin with the King's portrait on the obverse and the three-headed elephant on the reverse. |
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| On the reverse there is an elephant in the center of the Chakra device with stars around the border as above. |
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| Mopeds carrying live ducks, roadsides littered with dead snakes, a leopard, an elephant and a rhino were just some of the more unusual sights. |
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| The elephant is just short of her first birthday and is due to give birth any day! |
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| Embarrassed, Nadeem changed the subject to the damage a rogue elephant can do. |
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| He knew that because it was in the shape of an arch formed by elephant tusks. |
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| Warning bells went off for locals in the 1970s after a deluge of visitors discovered the elephant seal rookery. |
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| Could the Asian elephant fulfill the same ecological role that elephants played here 13,000 years ago? |
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| The Asian elephant featured strongly in Buddhism and Brahminism and the elephants were tamed and domesticated to be able to be used efficiently. |
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| Trunk banging displays of the Asian elephant produce a booming sound heard for a great distance. |
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| Arna is a 46-year old Asiatic elephant who was transported to Australia as an orphan from Vietnam many decades ago. |
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| From around one corner of the shrine another priest appeared sitting astride a huge elephant. |
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| Leaning sideways and striking a lucifer against the toenails on the elephant foot umbrella stand, Dimpler thoughtfully lit his last Cuban. |
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| Also present are elephant, sable antelope, reedbuck, common duiker, blue and vervet monkeys. |
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| For as long as I can remember, he has looked like an elephant, heavy and lumbering with big ears and baggy wrinkled skin. |
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| And finally tonight, an elephant at a safari park in England gave visitors something of a surprise. |
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| The audience went mad with excitement when the elephant stepped on to the stage. |
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| There are 11 elephant ranges in the country, each consisting of sanctuaries, national parks, protected areas and non-protected areas. |
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| This was the result of the elephant tamers chaining the animal in order to restrict its movements, when it was very young and impressionable. |
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| Africans, for example, were criticized for not taming the elephant, which had proved so valuable in Asia. |
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| Villagers believe the shaman uses black magic to help tame the elephant and sever ties to the mother. |
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| Her group is particularly worried for the future of large mammals native to the Himalaya, including the tiger, Asian elephant, and greater one-horned rhinoceros. |
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| Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the African elephant is listed as a threatened species, and the Asian elephant is listed as an endangered species. |
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| The blood ivory trade caters to a small but hungry segment in China, yet grassroots efforts for elephant conservation do exist. |
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| Marcel the elephant takes readers on a journey through his life, recounting his memories full of travel and adventure. |
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| Like an elephant beset by bees, or the straw that broke the camel's back, this week's swarm of small irritating things could madden even tolerant Taurans. |
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| Timbavati is known for its large herds of buffalo and elephant, and the night drives are good for viewing leopards, antbears, porcupines and hyenas. |
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| O'Connell-Rodwell and her colleagues have also begun to study the nuances of elephant signals to distinguish them from the footsteps of rhinoceroses or lions. |
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| Write letters to the Environment Ministry to persuade officials to protect elephants in their own homes, stop visiting animal circuses and avoid elephant rides. |
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| Hunters scoured thick forests today searching for a wild elephant that rampaged through villages on both sides of the India-Nepal border, trampling 12 people to death. |
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| The exhibition includes a South African ficus, a tamarind with pods, elephant grass from Africa, cherry, bougainvillaea, fig, Accacia and trees collected from forests. |
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| A further displacement from the land is suggested in two tiny etchings of the foetuses of an elephant and a monkey, beautifully worked in aquatint. |
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| Other ratites, the elephant bird of Madagascar and the moas of New Zealand, have been extinct for several centuries, probably as a result of human hunting. |
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| The film describes the hunting down of a rogue elephant in Assam. |
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| At a book party at Johnny's half shell on the Hill, Boehner acknowledged the elephant in the room. |
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| At the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, you can snorkel with a retired Asian elephant Rajan. |
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| The exhibition will have a philately counter facilitating the cancellation and sale of special covers featuring the Indian elephant and Nilgiri tahr. |
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| An elephant pulls teak and rosewood logs at the Pak Lay Sawmill. |
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| It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles. |
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| It was an 18-month, gruelling journey for the elephant which was rechristened Sultan Suleyman by the king after the great enemy of Europe in those days. |
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| The wild aurochs that roamed the old Eurasian continent was midway in size between a modern bull and an elephant, too big, strong and fierce to tame. |
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| There are rumbustious animal fights and wrestling matches, and Holi is celebrated on horseback, on elephant back, on foot, in a whirl of shifting colours. |
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| I lived for my packages from home of eggplants and asparagus and tomatoes and broccoli and elephant garlic. |
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| So I felt, great, I went to James Bond and he said no, so I can now go to the doctor from The elephant Man. |
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| TopsyBy Michael Daly A tragic tale of a circus elephant who fell victim to human competition and avarice. |
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| He also won awards for Man and Elephant, the love story of a mahout and an elephant, which was been shown on 100 television channels internationally. |
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| But 19 and 12, though superficially similar in their youthfulness, are diametrically opposed regarding the elephant in the room. |
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| The mahouts would have steered pairs of kookies so as to separate a grown elephant from the herd, squeezing in on either side. |
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| The monarch-attracting butterflyweed, verbena, lantana, ornamental grass, dietes, daylilies, black elephant ears and white-topped sedge set a natural stage for the water. |
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| That's especially evident in the sequence with an elephant shrew in Africa. |
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| Another incident occurred in September, when a married couple were killed after they were attacked by an elephant in Pandan Wangi, Indragiri regency, Riau. |
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| In 1254, the sheriffs were ordered to subsidise the construction of an elephant house at the Tower. |
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| However, in reality the southern Africans have always been in a minority within the African elephant range states. |
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| Yala National Park in the southeast protects herds of elephant, deer, and peacocks. |
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| Cuyler has a sandy beach and visitors will often find themselves sharing the beach with elephant seals. |
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| It is also one of the best places to watch northern elephant seals in the winter months. |
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| The polar bear is among the most sexually dimorphic of mammals, surpassed only by the pinnipeds such as elephant seals. |
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| Two of the largest extant mammals, the elephant and the rhinoceros, are largely hairless. |
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| A mirror development can be found with the dwarf elephant on Malta, originating from the European species. |
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| Most people are surprised when they read that the rock rabbit's nearest relative is the elephant. |
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| In the menagerie of subcontinental art, the horse and elephant are most common. |
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| Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade. |
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| Bala, who was born in January, 2013, was taken ill over the weekend and was being treated by the elephant and veterinary teams at the zoo. |
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| Barry Island's elephant, water buffalo and lion What happened to the lion we used to have our photo taken on? |
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| A ZOO keeper was crushed to death by an elephant yesterday at one of millionaire John Aspinall's controversial wildlife parks. |
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| Then again, we thought elephant cord flares, Goblin Teasmades and powdered mash was too-cool-for-school back then too. |
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| So, for example, if you wanted a red elephant, an orange and blue tiger or a suit with a dinosaur tail and rabbit ears, you can. |
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| The species that count the forest as habitat include the bushbaby, elephant shrews and sunbirds, as well as hippos, elephants and lions. |
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| The children exclaimed with wonder when they saw the elephant. |
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| The team was able to use the elephant bird DNA to estimate when the ratite species had separated from each other. |
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| Still, with Viacom's megabucks behind it, the MTV-Showtime channel remains the lavender elephant in the cable box. |
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| Maaximo Riera's elephant chair has been produced using morph metric data to resemble the Asian elephant species. |
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| The Asian elephant is threatened by habitat degradation, conflicts and poaching for ivory. |
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| It's different when it's a cheeky meercat, a tiger, elephant or Polar bear. |
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| Kosik the elephant often talks back when his keeper asks him to do something. |
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| Fill it with bottled herbs, flavored vinegars, elephant garlic and a handheld lemon squeezer. |
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| A LIFESIZE steel elephant is one of the many weird and wonderful attractions at a lakeside sculpture park which opens near Rugby this weekend. |
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| No decent soul could be glad that an elephant was shot in a drive-by. |
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| A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism. |
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| He used a hook in one hand, called an ankhus, to guide the elephant when voice and foot commands were not enough. |
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| The mahout used his feet and an ankhus to direct the elephant, as his voice might not be heard in the din of combat. |
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| All the emblems of sovereignty including the chhatra were in place on Father's elephant and war was resumed. |
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| Even with an elephant dose of sedative, the horse was still kicking at him when he tried to clean the wound. |
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| If a viable hybrid embryo is obtained, it may be possible to implant it into a female Asian elephant housed in a zoo. |
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| The drivers remain concealed at a little distance, while the koomkies surround the goondah, as this sort of elephant is called. |
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| When an elephant is in a proper state to be removed from the keddah, he is conducted either by koomkies or by tame males. |
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| That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high. |
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| Northern and eastern Bangladesh is home to the Asian elephant, hoolock gibbon, Asian black bear and oriental pied hornbill. |
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| The decision came after several mass slaughters of African elephants, most notably the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter in Chad. |
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| You can also use GoldMine in a single-user version, but that would be like killing a fly with an elephant gun. |
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| A bull elephant gave tourists in Thailand more than they bargained for on Sunday when it sat on and rubbed itself along their cars. |
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| Henry also kept a menagerie at the Tower, a tradition begun by his father, and his exotic specimens included an elephant, a leopard and a camel. |
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| An exception to this is the northern elephant seal, which feeds on fish at great depths in the open ocean. |
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| In some species, including elephant seals and grey seals, males will try to lay claim to the desired females and defend them from rivals. |
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| Subadult elephant seals will sneak into female clusters and try to blend in by pulling in their noses. |
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| In addition, the vocals of northern elephant seals may produce infrasonic vibrations. |
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| Exploited species included harp seals, hooded seals, Caspian seals, elephant seals, walruses and all species of fur seal. |
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| The northern elephant seal was hunted to near extinction in the late 19th century, with only a small population remaining on Guadalupe Island. |
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| Other species protected are southern elephant seals, Ross seals and Antarctic fur seals. |
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| The arrival of the first humans on the island is correlated with the extinction of the Sicilian Hippopotamus and the dwarf elephant. |
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| All told, the walrus is the third largest pinniped species, after the two elephant seals. |
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| There was a comb made of elephant ivory, a rare and expensive item in Northern England. |
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| In 1914, paleontologist Othenio Abel surmised the origins of the cyclops to be the result of ancient Greeks finding an elephant skull. |
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| This process is known as polyphyodonty and amongst the other mammals, only occurs in the kangaroo and elephant. |
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| The Syrian and North African elephant populations were reduced to extinction, probably due to the demand for ivory in the Classical world. |
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| Southeast Asian kingdoms included tusks of the Indian elephant in their annual tribute caravans to China. |
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| In the first half of the 20th century, Kenyan elephant herds were devastated because of demand for ivory, to be used for piano keys. |
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| Large species such as the tiger, rhinoceros, orangutan, elephant, and leopard, were once abundant as far east as Bali, but numbers and distribution have dwindled drastically. |
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| Rodents were successful, and elephant populations increased. |
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| Lacking context, the folklore artifacts in the Smithsonian Folklife Archive contain as much life as the stuffed elephant down the street in the Natural History Museum. |
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| The enormous nasal passage in the middle of the forehead could have looked like the eye socket of a giant, to those who had never seen a living elephant. |
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| The zoo says fourteen-year-old Asian elephant Karishma has turned out to be quite the talented painter since first picking up a brush two years ago. |
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| Their work also helps people and many other species of wildlife connected to the Asian elephant including orang-utans, tigers and countless exotic birds. |
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| In San Diego, at the zoo, this cousin's four-year-old son, left loose-handed by a gossipy mother, had been drawn between the bars and trampled on by a suddenly rogue elephant. |
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| The stunning series offers an amazing perspective on their lives, including that of the sengi, a species of elephant shrew that has to eat every three hours, or die. |
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| Alfie is a little boy from India who is curious and imaginative and goes on adventures with his baby elephant best friend, Haathi and their magical bioscope. |
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| In Hinduism, they are forbidden to mount a horse, ox, or elephant, although there is no mention of all the skydiving women do in the tampon adverts. |
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| You can't help but love the way Amos plays chess with the elephant, and hides with the tortoise, and the way the owl understands the zookeeper is afraid of the dark. |
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| Aepyornis maximus, known commonly as elephant birds, was found exclusively on the island of Madagascar up until 1,000 when the species became extent. |
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| In addition to these birds, hear the gray wolf, humpback whale, western diamondback rattlesnake, American alligator, African elephant, or smoky jungle frog. |
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| Polygynous species include elephant seals, grey seals and most otariids. |
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| The zoomorphic Hindu god Ganesha has the head of an elephant. |
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| The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet. |
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| Anyone wanting to find out how a monkey would use a bazooka or if an elephant is a good shot with a machine gun will have all their questions answered. |
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| At the same time, Lusung warriors fought alongside the Siamese king and faced the same elephant army of the Burmese king in the defence of the Siamese capital at Ayuthaya. |
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| Other African countries oppose this position, stating that renewed ivory trading puts their own elephant populations under greater threat from poachers reacting to demand. |
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| The talking point was Chris Ofili's use of balls of elephant dung attached to his mixed media images on canvas, as well as being used as supports on the floor to prop them up. |
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| The elephant shaped litterbin was officially presented to the school in Hemlington in December 1983 to replace the well loved, but well worn, Kermit the Frog bin. |
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| The second platform surrounds the base of the prang proper, whose closed entranceways are guarded by four statues of the Hindu god Indra on his three-headed elephant Erawan. |
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| The great elephant, when the cage was being placed, would, at a signal from its keeper, place its ponderous head against one side of the cage and push. |
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| After a long journey, Deshin Shekpa arrived in Nanjing on 10 April 1407 riding on an elephant towards the imperial palace, where tens of thousands of monks greeted him. |
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| Stumpy, a blue elephant was the mascot for the 2011 World Cup. |
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| The search for a substitute for ivory use was not for environmental concerns but based on economic motivation and fear of danger for elephant hunters. |
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| The use and trade of elephant ivory have become controversial because they have contributed to seriously declining elephant populations in many countries. |
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| It describes the elephant and hippopotamus in detail, as well as the value and origin of the pearl and the invention of fish farming and oyster farming. |
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| When a female elephant seal or grey seal is mounted by an unwanted male, she tries to squirm and get away, while croaking and slapping him with her tail. |
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| The fossil record is also poor for moa and the aepyornid elephant birds, in that both are mainly known from remains that date from historical times. |
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| She had to be put to bed with an elephant dose of tranquilizers. |
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| A statue of a young elephant was put in place of a former chalet. |
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| I've set him an elephant trap. If he falls in he'll look like a clown. |
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| Royal palms flank a long rectangular pool, a great fallen tree forms a bridge across the water, and heliconias bloom among the elephant ears and banana shrubs. |
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| Meanwhile, a Harvard University team is already attempting to study the animals' characteristics by inserting some mammoth genes into Asian elephant stem cells. |
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| So far, the team placed mammoth genes involved in blood, fat and hair into elephant stem cells in order to study the effects of these genes in laboratory cultured cells. |
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| The projects are based on finding suitable mammoth DNA in frozen bodies, sequencing its genome and, if possible, gradually combining the DNA with elephant cells. |
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