Word: elephantic
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Popping half an animal cracker elephant into her own mouth, Ocon gives Bailey the other half and launches into baby talk, interrupting an otherwise articulate sentence.
So much for the cynicism. It evaporates about 30 seconds after the house lights dim and director Julie Taymor's menagerie starts appearing on the stage and in the aisles. A pair of spindly giraffes (with men on stilts hidden inside) parade regally in front of a golden sun. A...
The great thing about ballot initiatives is they offer the citizenry no scapegoat other than itself. When the elephants have to leave the Cincinnati zoo ? famous for its endangered species ? angry residents might remember they just nixed a $52 million levy for a new elephant house. When sports fans in...
The unfortunate "murder" of rhinos by orphaned elephants (and vice versa) is nothing new. The Roman naturalist Pliny observed that one of the great "antipathies of nature" exists between the rhinoceros and its natural enemy, the elephant. Pliny recounts how the rhinoceros sharpens its horn against a rock and charges...
The long-term effect of this isolation appears to be a generation of juvenile delinquents. "The whole thing has much to do with the setup of elephant society," says zoologist Marian Garai, a Swiss-born South African who has been studying the relocation. Under normal circumstances, she says, a dominant...