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elephant

noun as in large mammal

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Yet cetaceans and elephants can fast for much longer, “and this somehow tells us that they must have found different ways to fuel their brain during periods of starvation,” Hiller said.

The tusks of the dead elephants are still in place and, as yet, no other species have died under similar circumstances.

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The new study reopens the long-running debate over whether elephants truly get tipsy gorging on marula fruit.

Descriptions of elephants behaving oddly after binging on overripe fruit go back at least to 1875, Janiak says.

Previous administrations, Democrat or Republican, had not really confronted China as the elephant in the room.

Marcel the elephant takes readers on a journey through his life, recounting his memories full of travel and adventure.

This video, shot in Zambia, shows a young elephant being attacked by a pride of 14 lions.

By 1998, their star elephant, Kenny, became ill and was ordered not to perform by a circus veterinarian.

The gentle, erudite soul within a body the public considered an oddity is the contrast at the heart of “The Elephant Man.”

Want to fight ‘Taxers’ and ‘Mudslingers’ as a patriotic elephant in the new ‘Giopi: 2014 Mission Majority’?

The female elephant killed by our hunters at this time was a comparatively small one.

The elephant ran straight on and went right through the whole party, but came near no one.

The elephant did not follow, but the hunters, having discovered her retreat, were not slow to follow and attack her.

But he soon got over his fear, and was so busy feeding the elephant, that his papa had to coax him away.

Suddenly the Elephant trumpeted aloud as though men had goaded him.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to elephant, such as: boar, mammoth, mastodon, pachyderm, and tusker.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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