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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 ...
The elephant has entered into popular culture through various idiomatic expressions and adages. 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]
"An Elephant Never Forgets" changed minor details: When Belinda wished the rain would stop, it is not mentioned that the family were going out to the shoe shop; The rug that the umbrella stand is placed next to is tiger skin instead of leopard; Percy wishes he was 10 feet (3.0 m) tall instead of twenty;
An elephant never forgets. Unless, of course, it is plagued by a case of pachyderm amnesia. Sharon, Lois & Bram search for Elephant and try to get her to regain her memory just in time for the trio's big concert!
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.
A bull elephant in musth, wild or otherwise, is extremely dangerous to humans, other elephants, and other species. Bull elephants in musth have killed keepers/mahouts, as well as other bull elephants, female elephants, and calves (the last usually inadvertently or accidentally in what is often called "herd infighting"). [13]
Free Jimmy (No: Slipp Jimmy fri) is a 2006 adult animated black comedy film first released in Norwegian in 2006, and later in English in 2008. The film was written and directed by acclaimed Norwegian subculture comic book artist Christopher Nielsen and features a number of characters from Nielsen's dark humor-laden comic books.