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 Elephant - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.
Since male elephants are "kicked out" of their herds when they become sexually mature, their "sex hormones" kick in and anything that stands in their way becomes an unfortunate victim.
Elephant Reintroduction Foundation (http://www.elephantreintroduction.org),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.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Elephant   (2522 words)

  
 more info on elephants - elefants - elaphant
The smallest of all the elephants is the Sumatran Asian elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus).
Elephants need massive tracts of land because, much like the slash-and-burn farmers, they are used to crashing through the forest, tearing down trees and shrubs for food and then cycling back later on, when the area has regrown.
Fictionally portrayed elephants are often humorously depicted as dreadfully afraid of mice, due to the obvious and ironic difference in size between the two animals.
www.scipeeps.com /Dim-to-Eli/elephants.php   (7822 words)

  
 List of fictional elephants
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www.experiencefestival.com /list_of_fictional_elephants/page/2   (1001 words)

  
 List of fictional elephants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dumbo, a circus elephant who learnt to fly (from the Disney film of the same title).
Kabumpo is the Elegant Elephant of Oz Kala Nag the working elephant in the short stories Moti Guj, Mutineer and Toomai of the Elephants by Rudyard Kipling
The Elephander, Elephantus, Twinhorn and Mammoth are mecha from the Zoids franchise which are based on elephants or other elephant-like creatures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_elephants   (411 words)

  
 Watershed Book Cafe - A Reading List
Alexander is a journalist whose love of elephants started when she covered the first elephant birth in captivity at the Portland, Oregon zoo in 1962.
It describes how elephants are as unique in comparison to the animal kingdom as humans are; female elephants have only two mammary glands, and elephant calves, like humans, are born without the knowledge of how to feed themselves.
And she bravely documents elephant violence, usually provoked, something that elephant lovers are apparently loathe to do because of possible repercussions to elephants.
www.watershedonline.ca /community/bookcafe/bcreadinglist.html   (2794 words)

  
 List of historical elephants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elephants were almost unheard of in America at this time and its presence helped prompt an Arkansas paper to call Rice's circus "The greatest show on earth", decades before other circuses would use the phrase.
Mary the Elephant - For reasons unknown, Mary, touring with Charles H. Sparks's World Famous Show, killed her inexperienced keeper Walter "Red" Eldridge on September 12, 1916, and was executed for that "crime" on September 13, 1916 in Erwin, Tennessee by being hanged by a railroad derrick car at the Clinchfield Railroad yard.
Tyke was a circus elephant who on August 20, 1994 in Honolulu, Hawaii, killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and mauled her groom Dallas Beckwith causing severe injuries during a Circus International performance before hundreds of horrified spectators.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_historical_elephants   (917 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Elephant
It was recently discovered through DNA analysis that the Borneo Elephant is a subspecies of the Indian Elephant having been native to Borneo for the past 300,000 not recently introduced as some had thought [1]
The African elephant has two populations, savanna and forest, and recent genetic studies have led to a reclassification of these as separate species, the forest population
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Elephant   (850 words)

  
 Check List for Screening Stocks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The stock becomes recognizable as an elephant toy which they may toss around with their trunks full of other people's money, manipulating it freely (because there are no public participants in the market) so as to adjust their "net asset value" reports to whatever fictional levels they desire.
Similarly, when insider holdings exceed 20% on their own, without regard to the levels of elephant holdings, that too is a warning sign that there may be now or in the future dealings for the sole and exclusive benefit of munchiment with absolute disregard for the ownership rights of cash paid public stockholders.
Unlike the 90% maximum for insiders and elephants combined, which is an exclusion for me, I address large insider holdings on a case by case basis, making a value judgement as to the character of the insiders who hold that stock.
home.earthlink.net /~bgrumbin/talks/cheklist.htm   (6984 words)

  
 Stampy
Stampy is an elephant appearing in The Simpsons.
The elephant soon causes trouble and a poacher offers to buy him, but the Simpsons decide to give him to a wild life reserve.
Bart comments "I wish I had an elephant." "You did," Lisa replies.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stampy.html   (69 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Fictional character   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction.
More accurately, a fictional character is the person or conscious entity we imagine to exist within the world of such a work.
The most extreme ways of reading fictional characters would be to think of them exactly as real people or to think of them as purely artistic creations that have everything to do with craft and nothing to do with real life.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Fictional_character   (1868 words)

  
 Fictional character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In various forms of theatre, performance arts and cinema (except for animation and CGI films), fictional characters are performed by actors, dancers and singers.
The opposite of a fictional character is a nonfictional character.
Some fictional characters are referenced outside of the work from which they came, because they concisely express some archetype or ideal.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Fictional_character   (1813 words)

  
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art.abcworld.net /Lists   (1015 words)

  
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www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_reference_tables.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Water for Elephants: A Novel: Books: Sara Gruen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
With its spotlight on elephants, Gruen's romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds that drove her debut and its sequel (Riding Lessons and Flying Changes)—but without the mass appeal that horses hold.
As a result, Water for Elephants is a novel that boasts the rare combination of being both entertaining and informative.
Reading "Water for Elephants" is like watching a movie on cable - odds are that you've already seen it, you know where it's going, but it's still a fine way to pass some time.
www.amazon.com /Water-Elephants-Novel-Sara-Gruen/dp/1565124995   (2365 words)

  
 Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Fictional character (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In various forms of theatre, performance arts and cinema (except for animation and CGI movies), fictional characters are performed by actors, dancers and singers.
Some fictional characters are so famous that they are often mentioned outside the context of the fictional work they come from.
List of Characters in The Chronicles of Narnia
fictional-character.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (2919 words)

  
 Lists of fictional things - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of fictional things created in literature or media.
List of deities (note: most deities are, or were at some time, not considered fictional)
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C. See also: Lists of television shows by city setting; and List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archive_of_fictional_things   (534 words)

  
 List of fictional elephants: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
List of fictional elephants: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
Kala Nag the working elephant in the short stories "Moti Guj, Mutineer" and "Toomai of the Elephants" by Rudyard Kipling
www.encyclopedian.com /li/List-of-fictional-elephants.html   (194 words)

  
 City Pages - Elephants on Parade
Gowdy's subject is the African elephant, and her medium a novel conceived and told entirely from his--or more accurately, her--perspective.
The White Bone follows a herd of Kenyan elephants as they make their way through one of the worst droughts in memory, while simultaneously fleeing a band of poachers who have massacred several other herds in a wildlife reserve.
The elephants of Ashok Mathur's first novel also speak fluent English, but their curious existence, unlike Mud's and Date Bed's, is predicated on human faith in them.
www.citypages.com /databank/20/960/article7532.asp   (1465 words)

  
 List of historical elephants
Kandula - the most famous elephant in Sri Lanka was given to an infant prince some 2000 years ago.
Mary - For reasons unknown, Mary, touring with Charles H. Sparks's World Famous Show, killed her inexperienced keeper Walter "Red" Eldridge on September 12, 1916, and was executed for that "crime" on September 13, 1916 in Erwin, Tennessee by being hanged by a railroad derrick car at the Clinchfield Railroad yard.
Joseph Merrick, who was called "the Elephant Man" for his affliction, which actually had nothing to do with elephants
www.fact-index.com /l/li/list_of_historical_elephants.html   (209 words)

  
 2005 Honor List
We are refraining from describing our 2005 Honor Books as incomparable because part of their appeal is the way they invite comparisons both on the basis of their subject matter and on the techniques the authors have chosen to use.
Peeps and Twilight from this year’s list are both about vampires, but Peeps is a sci-fi, horror story, while Twilight is a love story.
Nevertheless, if I’m worried about how Stephanie Meyer sets girls up to expect miracles from their boyfriends, I should be equally worried about the way Scott Westerfeld portrays both his male and female characters.
www.asu.edu /clas/english/englished/yalit/2005HonorList.htm   (1042 words)

  
 Metroblogging Los Angeles: More on the elephants
Back in march, eecue posted about the controversy over elephants at the LA Zoo.
As this is the first major capital improvement to this portion of the middle zoo, and as our elephant program serves such a vital function in connecting children and families to these animals' conservation, we believe it is well worth the investment.
I imagine there are b.la readers on both sides of the apparent debate over the Elephants of Surin project.
blogging.la /archives/2006/04/more_on_the_elephants.phtml   (542 words)

  
 Prehistoric Fiction
It was therefore virtually impossible for "prehistoric fiction" to arise until the ground was fertile enough to support it, at the end of the 19th century.
This displays a fairly dramatic "landscape." Juvenile prehistoric fiction might be said to have started in the 60s, with a fairly steady publication rate since then, and "adult" prehistoric fiction seems to have started in the 80s, and been growing at a much faster rate.
The fictional author struggles with the dilemma of presenting his impressions of the life of a being not quite human, but seen through the dream eyes and awake analysis of his modern descendant.
www.trussel.com /f_prehis.htm   (4832 words)

  
 Reading List, Grades 4-6
It is not intended to be an exhaustive list.
We have concentrated on books published since 1983; however, we do have some older titles, especially those we consider near-classics.
Moving photographs from the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem about the children who lived and died during the Holocaust make this book appropriate for all ages.
www.ipj-ppj.org /Misc..Bklist..advoc...VOP...etc./rdglist2.htm   (1015 words)

  
 Metroblogging Los Angeles: Elephants at the Zoo
In the last few months there has been a lot of whining about how LA shouldn't have elephants in the zoo.
The new elephant oasis will replace a 2-acre, $19 million elephant exhibit that was previously proposed.
I was at the LA Zoo a few months ago and they were half way through constructing the new elephant exhibit and I have to say it looks great.
blogging.la /archives/2006/03/elephants_at_the_zoo.phtml   (386 words)

  
 The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus Award Nominees List
Born from the Beast : novella : 1987/12
The Science Fiction Yearbook [Jerry Pournelle, JB John F. Carr, eds.] : anthology : 1986/22
Fiction [by RB, Van Ikin & Sean McMullen] : nonfiction : 2000/8
www.locusmag.com /SFAwards/Db/LocusNomList.html   (5370 words)

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