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The elephant is the state animal of Kerala and is featured on the emblem of the Government of Kerala, and previously on the coat of arms of Travancore. The elephant is also on the flag of the Kingdom of Laos with three elephants visible, supporting an umbrella (another symbol of royal power) until it became a republic in 1975. Other Southeast ...
Gorillas are used in the expression "800-pound gorilla" for their intimidation, similar to a powerful entity. "800-pound gorilla" is an American English expression for an entity so powerful that it can act without regard to the rights of others or the law. [1]
Quotes about strength “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain “The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty ...
The Elephants Artist Salvador Dalí Year 1948 Medium Oil on canvas Movement Surrealism Dimensions 49 cm × 60 cm (19 in × 24 in) Location Private collection The Elephants is a 1948 painting by the Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Background The elephant is a recurring theme in the works of Dalí, first appearing in his 1944 work Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a ...
You'll be laughing your trunk off thanks to these elephant-themed jokes. The post 45 Elephant Jokes That Are a Ton of Laughs appeared first on Reader's Digest.
The Asian elephant can be found from western India to eastern Borneo in Southeast Asia. A total of three recognized Asian elephant subspecies exist: the indicus, found across mainland Asia, the ...
Jones filmed the entire operation for television and entitled it Operation Elephant. Jones was the creator of the "Jumbolair" estate, originally created as a haven of 350 acres (1.4 km 2) for orphaned African elephants and other wildlife. He also kept two rhinos and a 600 lb male silverback gorilla that he named Mickey on the Jumbo Lair compound.
The elephant (both Asian and African) has a very large and highly complex neocortex, a trait also shared by humans, apes and certain dolphin species. Asian elephants have the greatest volume of cerebral cortex available for cognitive processing of all existing land animals.