elephants in English

noun
1
a heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
The sale of new ivory was banned in 1989 to curb the slaughter of elephants in Africa.
2
a size of paper, now standardized at 28 × 23 inches (approximately 711 × 584 mm).
Further, if we recall the great size of a typical elephant , the figure of Coryate is out of scale, much too large.

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1. We are researching reproduction in elephants/the reproduction of elephants.

2. African elephants have bigger ears.

3. Triceratops weighed more than elephants.

4. Elephants relish taking dust baths too.

5. The elephants rampaged through the forest.

6. Of all the elephants, African bush elephants live in the hottest climates, and have the largest ear flaps.

7. Elephants have a very tough hide.

8. The myth that elephants never forget.

9. Lions and elephants are wild animals.

10. You find elephants, rhinos, monkeys, pigs, etc.

11. Elephants collaborate in looking after their young.

12. The Tagua Nut—Can It Save Elephants?

13. They pursued elephants here, there and everywhere.

14. The circus elephants were led into the arena.

15. Baby Cubbie Elephants - "DUMBLE" Item# dumble

16. Elephants are distinguished by their long noses / trunks.

17. Moonstone, sardonyx, elephants, and a small dark bistro.

18. India is the home of elephants and tigers.

19. 11 The animals in effect became pygmy elephants.

20. We saw lots of lions, tigers, elephants, etc.

21. Elephants, by all accounts, were pretty strong too.

22. Elephants also collaborate in looking after their young.

23. Elephants in captivity usually live 40 to 45 years.

24. Elephants carved in wood, a bull in terra cotta.

25. And who could overlook the elephants and the lions?

26. We could hear the elephants trumpeting in the distance.

27. 18 We saw lots of lions, tigers, elephants, etc.

28. Elephants are used in some countries for hauling timber.

29. They dope the elephants in order to tag them.

30. African elephants have two fingerlike features on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. (Asian elephants have one.

31. Wildlife in Ratanakiri includes Asian elephants, gaur, and monkeys.

32. You can find on its plains elephants, buffalo, and lions.

33. The mammoth was related to, but distinct from, modern elephants.

34. In the Middle Ages, elephants were seldom used in Europe.

35. Do you believe that elephants can contemplate life after death?

36. A massive dinosaur , the Apatosaurus weighed as much as five elephants

37. Near the gate entry, two stone carvings of elephants were erected.

38. Sometimes he rode donkeys, cows, camels, or elephants without using saddles.

39. It will take two elephants to drag all this wood away.

40. Other popular matches set lions against tigers, or elephants against bears.

41. Elephants in Circuses are reduced to objects of entertainment for people

42. Bornean elephants are found mostly in the Malaysian state of Sabah

43. It is always important to examine the rhetoric used to discuss elephants and mahouts and be careful of anthropomorphising elephants into human labourers, and Animalising human workers

44. Then we showed it in dolphins, and then later in elephants.

45. Men, just like elephants, have a premonition they are going to die...

46. It is as if elephants look for any excuse to get excited.

47. Catty is one of the elephants closely linked to the Elephant Matriarch

48. Elephants create art by carefully choosing and combining different colors and elements.

49. On the lower slopes live elephants, chimpanzees, bushbuck, leopards, and colobus monkeys.

50. This recalls real-life circus elephants who get frightened and lash out.