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Elephants Can Remember is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1972. [1] It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver .
Among these animals is an elephant who leads the chorus, a piglet who is full of mud, and a highly indifferent hippopotamus who walks so slow that a snail rapidly passes him. When they arrive in class, the elephant sits in front of a hostile gorilla who uses a washboard to hit and annoy the elephant. In the meantime, the hippopotamus simply ...
An Elephant in the Garden is a British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo, and illustrated by Michael Foreman. It was originally published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins, and released in May 2010. The book is based on actual events that took place in Belfast during World War II, and is inspired by the story of Denise Weston ...
Thunder, an African pygmy elephant, [5] is the main protagonist of the series, which takes place in Africa alongside his tribe and mother. He is very close to his mother, who teaches him how to communicate and protect himself from the savanna's many dangers, especially Uprights (a term used by the elephants in the story for humans).
Later on, the short story was a part of a collection of stories that was published in 1993 as an English compilation before its publication in 2005 as the Japanese book "Zō no shōmetsu". [1] Despite its intriguing title, the story has not received much critical attention in comparison to other short stories in the collection, although the ...
Why do elephants drink so much? To try to forget. 43. What’s blue and have big ears? An elephant at the North Pole. 44. Why didn’t the African elephant like playing UNO?
The Elephant Vanishes (象の消滅, Zō no shōmetsu) is a collection of 17 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The stories were written between 1980 and 1991, [1] and published in Japan in various magazines, then collections. The contents of this compilation were selected by Gary Fisketjon (Murakami's editor at Knopf) and first ...
"Melancholy Elephants" is a 1982 science fiction short story by Canadian writer Spider Robinson. The story examines the interaction of copyright and longevity, and the possible effects of the extension of copyright to perpetuity. Its title is a reference to claims that elephants "never forget".