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An elephant joke is a joke cycle, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant. Elephant jokes were a fad in the 1960s, with many people constructing large numbers of them according to a set formula. Sometimes they involve parodies or puns. [1] [2] [3] An example of an elephant joke is: [1] [3]
The pre-eminent threats to the Asian elephant today are habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population, and lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops. Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts. [12]
Elephants average 3–4 hours of sleep per day. [87] Both males and family groups typically move no more than 20 km (12 mi) a day, but distances as far as 180 km (112 mi) have been recorded in the Etosha region of Namibia. [88] Elephants go on seasonal migrations in response to changes in environmental conditions. [89]
Palaeoloxodon falconeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant that lived during the Middle Pleistocene (sometime between around 500–200,000 years ago) on the Mediterranean islands of Sicily and Malta. It is amongst the smallest of all dwarf elephants, under 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height as fully grown adults.
When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...
How Many Elephants Are in the World? There are about 415,000 African elephants and about 50,000 Asian elephants worldwide. ©Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock.com. According to the IUCN, ...
Straight-tusked elephant (left) Cretan elephants: Palaeoloxodon chaniensis P. creutzburgi: Crete: Extinct Cyprus dwarf elephant: Palaeoloxodon cypriotes: Cyprus: Extinct (c. 9000 BC) Naxos dwarf elephant: Palaeoloxodon sp. Naxos: Extinct Tilos dwarf elephant: Palaeoloxodon tiliensis: Tilos: Extinct Rhodes dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon sp. Rhodes ...
The incredible image, which was taken at Elephant Nature Park, a sanctuary and rescue center for elephants, just outside of Chiang Mai in Thailand, has received multiple photoshop accusations ...