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Project Elephant was launched in 1992 by the Government of India to protect elephant habitats and population. The Indian elephant is a cultural symbol throughout its range and appears in various religious traditions and mythologies. The elephants are treated positively and is revered as a form of Lord Ganesha in Hinduism. It has been designated ...
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Elephant fight, Deccan, India, 19th century, Salar Jung Museum. The composite figures are a combination of humans and animals, including a Brontosaurus on the trunk of elephant on the right. Composite miniature painting is a painting style which was prevalent in India and Persia. In this style, painted representations of different animals or ...
The story of picking the mascot began when New York Giants' manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a "white elephant on his hands"; manager Connie Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot.
The fourth story, in the lower right, is titled "Udder Chaos". While the text describes what happens if Holstein cows escape their field, the pictures illustrate the movements of a robber, dressed in black and white stripes and a black mask. At first, he hides among the cows, and then among a choir who the cows pass by, and then once again ...
Wild elephants in Munnar. Elephants found in Kerala, the Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus), are one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant.Since 1986, Asian elephants have been listed as endangered by IUCN as the population has declined by at least 50% over the last three generations, estimated to be between 25,600 to 32,750 in the wild.
Part of the exhibition was a 37-year-old Indian elephant that was painted to match the wallpaper of the room in which it was placed. The show was meant to address important issues such as poverty, which is ignored by most people; [ 2 ] the animal was a literal representation of the " elephant in the room ".
This list of fictional pachyderms is a subsidiary to the List of fictional ungulates.Characters from various fictional works are organized by medium. Outside strict biological classification, [a] the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses; this list also includes extinct mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons, etc.