ELEPHANTS. Indigenous to both Africa and India, the elephant is the largest of all living land animals. A peaceful herbivore, the adult of the species has no fear of any other animal, with the exceptions of the human hunter and small rodents that might...

The elephant is a large mammal with a long trunk and tusks. The trunk is an elongated nose used for feeding, drinking, bathing, blowing dust, and testing the air. The tusks are upper incisor teeth composed entirely of dentine (ivory) used for...

Normally what one calls someone who has just stepped on one’s toe, either the word on its own or ‘you elephant!’ There is a passage in King Solomon’s Mines, by H.Rider Haggard, which gives a different slant on this term, and...

An elephant does not catch mice. (Roman) An elephant’s tusks are never too heavy for it. (African) By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair. (Persian) The elephant does not feel a flea bite. (Italian) The elephant does...

Elephants (Elephantidae) are a family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia. They were once classified along with other thick skinned animals in a now invalid order, Pachydermata. There are three living species: the African Bush Elephant, the...

Hunters in India's remote northeast are tracking a rogue elephant blamed for 14 deaths in the region and named after Osama bin Laden by fearful villagers.The order came after the bull dubbed Laden, which has twice evaded attempts to kill him, was blamed for the...

Two domesticated elephants went on a rampage through several villages in northeastern India, killing eight people and injuring five before being shot dead by police, officials said Thursday.Police were searching for the owners and trying to establish what caused the violent behavior. Angry villagers protesting...

Elephants _ long revered in India as symbols of wisdom and good fortune _ are no longer allowed in Mumbai.The state government has banned domesticated elephants from India's largest city, saying that forcing the animals to walk the city's chaotic, crowded and polluted streets was...

About 100 wild elephants have converged on a river island in northeast India, demolishing homes, feasting on sugarcane and panicking residents, officials said Saturday.Thousands of villagers were using firecrackers and bonfires to scare away the rampaging animals."Dozens of houses have been destroyed in the past...

Essay provides an ideology study on elephants.