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In the Malayalam film industry, there are several films, depicting elephants like - Guruvayur Kesavan (1977), Gajakesariyogam (1990), Pattabhishekam (1999) and Aanachandam (2006). On television, Nellie the Elephant is a 1990 UK cartoon series inspired by the 1956 song of the same name, featuring Scottish singer Lulu voicing Nelly.
It is attested in Mycenaean Greek as e-re-pa (genitive e-re-pa-to) in Linear B syllabic script. [3] [4] As in Mycenaean Greek, Homer used the Greek word to mean ivory, but after the time of Herodotus, it also referred to the animal. [1] The word elephant appears in Middle English as olyfaunt (c. 1300) and was borrowed from Old French oliphant ...
A white elephant (also albino elephant) [1] is a rare kind of elephant, but not a distinct species. Although often depicted as snow white, their skin is typically a soft reddish-brown, turning a light pink when wet. [2] They have fair eyelashes and toenails. The traditional "white elephant" is commonly misunderstood as being albino, but the ...
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African elephants are members of the genus Loxodonta comprising two living elephant species, the African bush elephant (L. africana) and the smaller African forest elephant (L. cyclotis). Both are social herbivores with grey skin. However, they differ in the size and colour of their tusks as well as the shape and size of their ears and skulls.
Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths. These are large terrestrial mammals with a snout modified into a trunk and teeth modified into tusks. Most genera and species in the family are extinct. Only two genera, Loxodonta (African elephants) and Elephas (Asian elephants), are ...
Elephas is one of two surviving genera in the family of elephants, Elephantidae, with one surviving species, the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus. [1] Several extinct species have been identified as belonging to the genus, extending back to the Pliocene or possibly the late Miocene.
A. African bush elephant. Isilo (elephant) African elephant. African forest elephant. Asian elephant.