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	Dwarf elephant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dwarf elephants are pre-historic members of the order Proboscidea, that, through the process of allopatric speciation, evolved to a fraction of the size of their modern relatives.
		Dwarf elephants were once part of the Pleistocene fauna of several Mediterranean islands.
		Theodorou, G. The dwarf elephants of the Charkadio cave on the island of Tilos (Dodekanese, Greece).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dwarf_elephant (1207 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Elephant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Elephant tusks are the major source of ivory, but because of the increased rarity of elephants, hunting and ivory trade is now restricted, and in some countries illegal.
		Elephants have also been used as mounts for safaris, especially on tiger hunts, and as ceremonial mounts for royal and religious occasions, whilst Asian elephants have been used for transport and entertainment, and are common to circuses around the world.
		Elephant Reintroduction Foundation,The foundation is dedicated to a management system for rehabilitation of captive elephants and habitat preparation to ensure successful long-term sustainability after their return to the wild.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Elephant (3587 words)

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		The Asiatic elephant inhabits the forest-lands of India, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Cochin China, Ceylon and Sumatra.
		The African elephant is a very different animal from its Asiatic cousin, both as regards structure and habits; and were itnot for the existence of intermediate extinct species, might well be regarded as the representative of a distinct genus.
		Although some of these elephants are believed not to have been larger than donkeys, the height of others may be estimated at from 4 to 5 ft., or practically the same as that of the dwarf Congo race.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=22624 (2170 words)

	History of elephants in Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first historically recorded elephant in northern Europe was the animal brought by emperor Claudius, during the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 CE, to the British capital of Colchester.
		The bestiary explains that while in residence at the Tower of London, the elephant enjoyed a diet of prime cuts of beef and expensive red wine, and is claimed to have died in 1257 from drinking too much wine.
		Suleyman the Elephant was a present from the Portuguese king John III to Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_elephants_in_Europe (1137 words)

	ELEPHANT - LoveToKnow Article on ELEPHANT
		The African elephant is a very different animal from its Asiatic cousin, both as regards structure and habits; and were it not for the existence of intermediate extinct species, might well be regarded as the representative of a distinct genus.
		The great interest in connection with a dwarf West African race of elephant is in relation to the fossil pigmy elephants of the limestone fissures and caves of Malta and Cyprus.
		In this connection it is of interest to note that, both in the Mediterranean islands and in West Africa, dwarf elephants of the African type are accompanied by pigmy species of hippopotamus, although we have not yet evidence to show that in Africa the two animals occupy actually the same area.
	10.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EL/ELEPHANT.htm (3345 words)

	Elephant - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 100 kg (225 lb).
		Elephants have three premolars and three molars in each quadrant.
		Elephants, especially males, have been known to knock down trees and bushes when excited, socially pressured, or when looking for food.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/e/l/e/Elephant.html (3624 words)

	biology - Elephant
		An elephant's most obvious characteristic is the trunk, a much elongated combination of nose and upper lip, which can be used to grab objects such as food.
		There are two populations of African elephants, Savannah and Forest, and recent genetic studies have led to a reclassification of these as separate species, the forest population now being called Loxodonta cyclotis, and the Savannah (or Bush) population termed Loxodonta africanus.
		War elephants were used by armies in the Indian sub-continent, and by the Persian empire.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Elephant (1734 words)

	African Wildlife Foundation: Wildlives
		Elephants are generally gregarious and form small family groups consisting of an older matriarch and three or four offspring, along with their young.
		Elephants are very attentive mothers, and because most elephant behavior has to be learned, they keep their offspring with them for many years.
		Elephants seem to be fascinated with the tusks and bones of dead elephants, fondling and examining them.
	www.awf.org /wildlives/71 (1571 words)

	Are there any living dwarf elephants?
		The greater, bush elephant (Loxodonta africana africana) is bigger, has larger proportionally ears, big tusks that is bend horizontally outwards and,and has 4 toes on the frontnails, and 3 toes on the hindnails.
		While in the rainforest in Westafrica, exist an other subspecies, the forest (or roundeared) elephant, Loxodonta africana cyclotis, with smaller ears, smaller tusks, that is bent downwards, and with 5 frontnails and 4 backnails.
		This was the elephant that were brought to Italy from Cartage by Hannibal, and that was used in the arenas in old Rome.
	www.elephant.se /living_dwarf_elephants.php?id=5 (410 words)

	Cyclops - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another possible origin for the Cyclops legend is that prehistoric dwarf elephant skulls - about twice the size of a human skull were found by the Greeks on Crete.
		Given the paucity of experience that the locals likely had with living elephants, they were unlikely to recognize the skull for what it actually was.
		It is also possible that the rare but occasional birth of malformed children affected by cyclopia, a rare congenital cephalic disorder, could have inspired the legend.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyclops (1077 words)

	Elephant Ears Plants Fallax - Colocasia Fallax
		Colocasia Fallax or Dwarf Elephant Ear is probably the hardiest elephant ear variety.
		Boasts a silver splash highlighting the center vein of matt-green, with smaller silver veins radiating from the center to the leaf edge.
		Elephant Ear varieties are hardy in zones 7-10 as
	www.elephantearsplants.com /elephantearsfallax.htm (122 words)

	African Wildlife Foundation: Wildlives
		The dwarf mongoose is the smallest of the African species.
		A dwarf mongoose pack of 12 to 15 individuals covers a range of approximately 75 acres that overlaps with the ranges of other packs.
		Although the dwarf mongoose is a small, inconspicuous carnivore, it is a good example of how group cooperation improve a species' chances of survival.
	www.awf.org /wildlives/69 (710 words)

	Dwarf Mongoose
		Dwarf mongooses live in packs with 1 breeding pair.
		Dwarf mongooses uncover invertebrate prey by scratching like chickens in leaf and grass litter and around logs and trees.
		Dwarf mongooses do not bunch in open like bigger mongooses, but simply run and hide.
	sailfish.exis.net /~spook/mongotx.html (963 words)

	The Classics Pages - Odyssey: Cyclops 2
		The discovery of a dwarf elephant skull would not have been an unusual event, even 5,000 years later, when the first Mycenaean Greeks were making contact with the island.
		The dwarf elephant of Sicily would not have been a giant to compare with the modern African elephant - but his skull, with its single eye-hole would, in my opinion, certainly be enough to suggest that a race of one-eyed giants had once roamed on the island.
		The dwarf elephant theory to explain the Cyclops was first thought of in 1914 by Othenio Abel.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/odyssey/cyclops02.htm (267 words)

	Greece - Tilos
		The purpose of this short presentation is to summarize available knowledge on the Tilos elephants, and to briefly mention some of the latest results on their taphonomy from the analysis of hundreds of drawings and pictures taken at different depths and sites in the cave (Theodorou, in prep).
		The extinction event of the elephants had to be correlated with Late Quaternary climatic events, volcanic activity or the possible co-occurrence of man and elephant on the Island during the Holocene.
		Theodorou, G.E. The dwarf elephants of the Charkadio cave on the island of Tilos (Dodekanese, Greece), PHD, Dissertation: 1-231.
	www.greece-facts.com /Tilos-144.html (1189 words)

	Colocasia esculenta, Elephant Ears.
		The large leaves of the Colocasia esculenta resemble elephant ears.
		A giant clump of immense leaves as long as two feet bring the drama of the tropics to the Virginia Garden.
		Colocasia esculenta known by its common name of elephant ears is a returning perennial in zones 8B and 9 and is nearly an evergreen perennial in tropical climates.
	www.virginiagarden.com /elephant.html (118 words)

	Tufts Journal: Tufts at 150: Elephant tales
		Jumbo was the largest elephant known at the time, standing approximately 12 feet tall at the shoulder and weighing more than six tons.
		In 1865, Matthew Scott, who was to serve as Jumbo's keeper for the rest of the elephant's life, came to see the two young elephants that were ill. Scott believed that they could be cured and arranged to acquire them for the London Zoological Gardens in exchange for a rhinoceros.
		Their keeper was leading jumbo and Tom Thumb, a dwarf elephant, across the train yard when a train came down a little-used track and struck the mighty pachyderm.
	tuftsjournal.tufts.edu /archive/2001/october/tufts150/index.shtml (668 words)

	Portulacaria afra Monograph, the Elephant's Food or Spekboom, Part I
		The Addo Elephant National Park is situated in the Eastern Cape Province 72 km by road from Port Elizabeth.
		As a result is was observed that inside the park where the plant is subjected to browsing by elephants, Portulacaria afra survives and spreads successfully, whereas outside the park the plant is becoming sparse as a result of overgrazing and poor regeneration.
		The juicy leaves are a wholesome food for all classes of stock as well as for wild animals including buffaloes and elephants; hence farms with plenty of spekboom need not fear an ordinary drought.
	www.phoenixbonsai.com /Portulacaria.html (4904 words)

	Elephant Ears Direct, Largest Selection on the Web
		Elephant Ears are native to South America, most regions of Asia, Java and Malaysia where people there use Alocasia (Esculenta, Taro) as important sources of starch, such as poi in the Hawaiian food tradition.
		Elephant Ears were first brought to the USA by scientists exploring the jungles of South America.
		In the USA the plant is used for it’s large leaf size and broad foliage coverage, in outside gardens, inside and outside pots, and in water gardens.
	www.elephantearsdirect.com (198 words)

	Yale Bulletin and Calendar
		The limited food sources of the island environment of these dwarf populations were largely responsible for this adaptation.
		Another tiny elephant on exhibit is the pygmy mammoth from the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California.
		The largest living elephant, and overall the largest living land mammal, is the male African elephant, which can weigh 14,000 pounds and consume up to 600 pounds of food a day.
	www.yale.edu /opa/v33.n18/story6.html (705 words)

	Cyclops? Or Elephant precursor \| MetaFilter
		According to this (pdf) dwarf elephant bones found on the island of Cyprus were first reported to science in 1904.
		The dwarf elephants on the other hand were very small.
		The island of Tilos is, it seems, the location with the best preserved and most abundant of dwarf elephant fossils.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/22955 (421 words)

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		Elephant grass as in crop residue contains high levels of structural carbohydrate.
		Control or ammonia processed dwarf elephant grass was subjected to ozone at 0,.2,2 and 20% concentrations by weight, followed by in-situ dacron satchel dry mater and carbohydrate fraction digestion measurements for 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 24, 48 and 96 h.
		* Samples of dwarf elephant grass, a warm season forage containing a moderately high level of structural carbohydrates were ground to 2 mm in size.
	cnrit.tamu.edu /conf/isnh/exPoster (953 words)

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		The dusty solid purple fl leaves to 2' long make this elephant ear one of the most spectacular forms ever introduced.
		This fl leaved elephant ear has dramatic green veins, highlighting the fl background.
		Unlike most other elephant ears, this light shade and moisture lover forms rounded leaves of velvety medium green, each highlighted by a wide silver streak down the center vein, then smaller silver veins radiating from the center to the leaf edge.
	www.knoxnurseryinc.com /Perennials.htm (356 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ecologists of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and officials of the Forest Department are set to trek the state’s forests in search of the kallaana, the mythical dwarf elephant.
		Another possibility is to mistake a sub adult male in a herd as a dwarf elephant.
		The IISc has already completed a comprehensive study to establish that elephants in the forests of Tamil Nadu and Kerala belong to two distinctive groups even while sharing the same genetical structure.
	www.timesofoman.com /print.asp?newsid=12038 (342 words)

	Cryptomundo.com
		This Elephant is in beautiful condition and dates from the mid 1800’s.
		We can not be certain if it is a baby or a true dwarf elephant.
		The story and saga of the Pygmy Elephant is a well-known cryptozoological adventure (see the entry in Cryptozoology A to Z, pages 204-206).
	www.cryptomundo.com /cryptozoo-news/barnums-pygmy (393 words)

	Elephas Melitensis
		Amongst the most interesting detail that any child in Malta learns at school is that on our islands there had been discovered the remains of dwarf elephants.
		The elephant remains that have been discovered in Malta are various.
		Other theories seem to confirm that it is possible some dwarf elephants were still inexistence in other regions around the Mediterranean concurrently with human presence, although this does not seem to have been the case for Malta.
	www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=184316&pid=124 (521 words)

	The genus Elephas, member of the family of elephants
		The genus Elephas, belongs to the family of elephants, elephantidae, and was named by Linnaeus 1758.
		Elephas melitensis Malta dwarf elephant - (species, extinct +).
		Elephant facts > Elephas at ABSOLUT ELEPHANT, established by Dan Koehl 1995
	www.elephant.se /elephas.php?open=Elephant+organisations (81 words)

	Trophy Hunting Safaris in Cameroon with Club Faune Safaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The main attraction in the Savannah, is hunting the Giant Eland as well as Elephant, Lion, Buffalo and Hippopotamus.
		Bongos, Forest Elephants, Sitatungas, Giant Forest Hogs and Dwarf Buffaloes are principle animals and some of them make splendid trophies.
		The weight of Elephant tusks ranges from 15 to 35 pounds (per tusk).
	www.safariconsultants.com /camfaune.htm (552 words)

	Elephant Ears Jenningsii - Colocasia Affinis
		Elephant Ears Colocasia affinis 'Jenningsii,' is a Dwarf
		Case of 25 premium Jenningsii Elephant Ear Plants
		Case of 36 premium Illustris Elephant Ear Plants
	www.elephantearsplants.com /elephantearsjenningsii.htm (92 words)

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