Hints and tips:
...Hippos grunted testily, elephants swam across the river, trunks held aloft like snorkels, while forest buffalo, their ears like feathered purses, squelched in the riverside mud....
...A very old, giant tree sits just inside, its hefty trunk protected by railings....
...Even here there is poaching: for ivory, elephant trunk (a delicacy), grey parrots and truckloads of bushmeat for the cities. Eighty-six rangers with nine functional weapons patrol by foot or by boat....
...By contrast, leaders who are elephants have huge ears, a huge trunk relative to mouth size, big eyes and a formidable memory. They listen, observe and most importantly, ask helpful questions....
...Communication is by hand signal: when to stop (a raised fist), an elephant nearby (a pinched hand twirled like a trunk), a waterhole ahead (a circling flat palm)....
...elephant — I got my jumbo rear end wedged between two bollards....
...Often she resolves “complex design problems” by “looking at little insects, birds’ beaks, elephant trunks.” She pauses. “I don’t think we can remove ourselves too much from [nature].”...
...Sliding down the elephant’s trunk were the middle classes of rich countries, suffering from no growth at all in their incomes....
...Tell me about an animal you have loved.Honeyblossom, an Asian elephant....
...Lucille Lewin, founder, Whistles “I wondered if I would be good enough, but the elephant in the room was really my age, I was 68 at the time,” Lewin says of being accepted at the Royal College of Art in...
...An earlier version mistakenly referred to elephants’ tusks instead of trunks, and confused east and west in one instance....
...The elephants greedily slurped down the milk....
...In the 1970s this was a trunk road, an important artery for ferrying minerals out of the DRC and into Uganda....
...spraying water from its trunk....
...Feel-good bonus: the owners are a year into a fundraising partnership with the Elephant Nature Park rescue-rehabilitation sanctuary, which has to date generated almost $45,000 in support, mostly in donations...
...Another run ended at the upper edge of a forest of black pine, some of the trees five centuries old, their wrinkled trunks like fat elephant legs....
...A drill from across the street emits a sound like a shriek from an elephant’s trunk. The builder evidently has a sense of humour....
...Gabriel had just spotted an elephant shrew scurrying across the path....
...In one widely shared video, an elephant walks up to the front gate of a village home and uses its trunk to turn on a tap so the herd can drink....
...What resonated most in rich countries was the low base of the elephant’s trunk, which illustrated that their middle classes had suffered income stagnation, and its high tip, which showed the outsized gain...
...Forests strobe past, a blur of snow-dappled trunks....
...The proud hero with an upturned trunk in “The Elephant and the Monkey of Jupiter” was drawn in the Jardin des Plantes from an animal called Bangkok, saved from the cull when other elephants were shot and...
...Finally, at the top of the stairs, turn around to inspect the huge slice of California Sequoia trunk on display....
...From Canning Town eastward, it runs next to the busy A13 (“Trunk Road to the Sea”, for those familiar with Billy Bragg’s parody of “Route 66”)....
...Animals in various guises are dotted around the room, including a much-treasured vintage elephant on wheels, tucked in the fireplace....
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