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Title: Elephant
Post by: nichi on December 01, 2006, 03:40:24 AM

(http://www.thejunglelook.com/albums/Misc-Mammals/ElephantWalk.jpg)


(http://www.biodiversityscience.org/publications/hotspots/images/156.jpg)

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: niamhspark on December 01, 2006, 03:41:52 AM

Awe! I love elephants!

Title: Royal Elephant
Post by: nichi on December 01, 2006, 04:05:23 AM

(http://www.janetkruskamp.com/Images/RoyalElephantI.jpg)


(http://www.info.lk/srilanka/srilankaelephants/kandyperahara/imgx/04.jpg)

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on December 04, 2006, 03:16:40 AM

:)

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on December 04, 2006, 04:13:41 AM

I heard it said not too long ago that the way to meet and greet an elephant is to take his trunk and blow into the tip of it ... and then the elephant blows back!
I would love to experience that before I die!

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on December 29, 2006, 12:15:27 PM

Elephant Grief (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/337356.stm)

I think I must have been a mahout in one of my lives.

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on March 03, 2007, 06:24:09 PM

(http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Himalayas/CorbettPark/Corbett31.jpg)

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on March 08, 2007, 05:00:56 AM

(http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Himalayas/CorbettPark/Corbett33.jpg)

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on March 08, 2007, 06:43:46 AM

The Elephant's Trunk

The Trunk
The elephant's trunk does so much more than smell. This "hose nose" is also used for drinking (actually blowing water into the mouth), communication, feeding, chemo-communication, offense/defense, touching, lifting, greeting, caressing, throwing dust, and just about any other activity an elephant is involved in.

 Fascinating trunk trivia:
 
• The trunk of a full-grown elephant weighs about 400 pounds.
 
• The trunk can hold up to 2.5 gallons of water.
 
• An elephant can use its trunk as a snorkel when wading in water over its head.
 
• Elephants maintain social bonds in part by touching, caressing, and smelling each other with their trunks.
 
• The trunk is the largest nose of any living animal.
 
• There are at least 40,000 muscles in the trunk, which is strong enough to pick up a log, yet delicate enough to pick up a grain of rice.
 
• Elephants have a keen sense of smell but very poor eyesight.
 
(http://www.toledozoo.org/plantsanimals/images/elephant_pic19.jpg)
http://www.toledozoo.org/plantsanimals/pa_ele_anatomy.html

It's Also In Da Feet (http://www.physorg.com/news4211.html)
Or, how the Sri Lankan elephants knew to climb to the mountains during the great tsunami.

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on March 08, 2007, 06:53:29 AM

(http://www.idlebrain.com/images2/newpg-2005-ganesh189.jpg)

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: Gunslinger on March 08, 2007, 06:54:50 AM

Thanks for posting those!  I love elephants, too.

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on March 08, 2007, 09:44:40 AM

(http://imagesoftheworld.org/India/India052.jpg)

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: Gunslinger on March 08, 2007, 09:57:06 AM

I love the dancers at the top of the frieze, waving at us.  Must have been one hell of a party!!

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on March 08, 2007, 10:13:11 AM

I like how the whole series of carvings looks to be done on the leg of an elephant!
There wasn't an explanation or caption of the location on this pic, just "India".

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: daphne on March 20, 2007, 06:42:31 PM

right of way...     :D

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g20/mysticaldaf/RightofWay.jpg)

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on March 20, 2007, 08:10:03 PM

I love that!!  :-* :-* :-*
And what a beautiful place!

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on August 10, 2007, 04:17:17 AM

Elephant Emotions (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/unforgettable/emotions.html)

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: Michael on August 13, 2007, 10:00:52 PM

yes

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on October 10, 2008, 09:29:57 PM

(http://www.akshardham.com/whattosee/mandir/photo/eledivine.jpg)


(http://images.exoticindiaart.com/panels/decorated_royal_elephant_wc47.jpg)

Title: Re: Elephant
Post by: nichi on October 10, 2008, 09:32:56 PM

(http://images.exoticindiaart.com/batik/bc97.jpg)