Word: loxodonta
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Randera-Rees has worked as an African analyst at Credit Suisse, and he is planning to start a small financial-services company in Johannesburg, called Loxodonta Capital, with classmate Kwame L. Osseo-Asare...
...great elephant," Leonardo da Vinci wrote, "has by nature qualities which rarely occur among men: namely probity, prudence, and the sense of justice and of religious observance." Later zoologists in Africa have noticed more human traits in Loxodonta africana -long childhoods and close nuclear families, high intelligence and a habit of wrecking their environment and destroying their own food supply. The suicide ground of the retreating herds of African elephants has been, for the past quarter-century, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, a place ringed by political (and thus, from the elephants' point of view, irrational) boundaries. This...
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