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They all reply that they can't remember, but the elephant proceeds to remind them that he never forgets. This continues until the swan asks the elephant a simple math question, which he shamefully admits to forget, and the class retorts him for it. After this, the swan makes the class take a test, which she leaves in charge of a turtle.
An elephant never forgets might be an exaggeration, but elephants actually have the largest brains of all land mammals. An adult elephant’s weighty brain reaches nearly 11 pounds- that’s 8 ...
Elephants are deeply emotional beings and experience a rich spectrum of feelings, from grief and rage to joy and empathy. They express joy easily when they are with their families.
The phrase "Elephants never forget" refers to the belief that elephants have excellent memories. The variation "Women and elephants never forget an injury" originates from the 1904 book Reginald on Besetting Sins by British writer Saki. [48] [49] This adage seems to have a basis in fact, as reported in Scientific American:
Elephants Can Remember was cited in a study done in 2009 using computer science to compare Christie's earlier works to her later ones. The sharp drops in size of vocabulary and the increases in repeated phrases and indefinite nouns suggested that Christie may have been suffering from some form of late-onset dementia, perhaps Alzheimer's disease .
The first story, "Grandmother's Footsteps", used the phrase ghost story as word play because the plot twist of the grandmother being dead all along changed the phrase's meaning to "story from a ghost"; [3] "A Lesson From History" uses wordplay for ghostwriter because a ghost wrote Elisa's exam. Meanwhile, "Guilt Ghost" and "The Broken-Down ...
Meant to replace Ole Diamond the elephant, Tonka was the ninth African Elephant at the zoo. Mike Fouraker, the general curator at Zoo Knoxville at the time, said that out of the 27 captured ...
The White Bone is a Canadian novel written by Barbara Gowdy and published by HarperCollins in 1999. [1] It was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 1998. [2] Sometimes compared to Richard Adams's Watership Down, [3] it is an adult fantasy story about animals—in this case, African elephants—in a realistic natural setting but given the ability to speak to one another throughout the book.