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The most common elephant in the world, it has smaller lower ears. Often referred to as the Indian Elephant. The most common elephant in the world, it has smaller lower ears. Endangered species. | https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1601518775535-PMVDMPMCEVFSNJ49NL9S/5O.jpg oliphantsold - The Oliphants 5 | Sri Lankan Oliphant Often referred to as the Indian Elephant. The most common elephant in the world, it has smaller lower ears. Often referred to as the Indian Elephant. The most common elephant in the world, it has smaller lower ears. Endangered species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600917015561-7S4FISUMEPDQD4SDBXUY/1L.jpg oliphantsold - The Loxodonts 1 | African Bush Loxodont This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1600899273726-GJZJJCCI8ND1LMS2G3SP/dumbo.jpg oliphantsold - 104 | Transport Elephant | Utility This is blessed and silly, alas. Ask my brother. https://www.118els.com/loxodonts daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604370656517-XML5MLNL9ZPLSJJ2JZBP/1L.jpg loxodonts - loxodont. 1 | African Bush Loxodont Aka the African Savannah Elephant, the loxodont outlives every mammal but us humans. Adult females can weigh over three tons, adult males twice that. Loxodont herds are led by the eldest female, or matriarch, while the adult males tend to lead a more solitary life, only approaching herds for mating purposes or to ask who took the Phillips head and forgot to put it back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604544928494-GOVGBIXD8CBX177CDXOH/2L.jpg loxodonts - loxodont. 2 | African Forest Loxodont Smallest of living oliphants and loxodonts, it differs from the African Bush Loxodont in that it has one fewer toes. In the last decade, due to hunting, habitat loss, poaching, and fragmentation of communities, population has declined to fewer than 30,000. Which is basically Helena, Montana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604369930503-S1W7RYMIOWR0V8B9FJXQ/3L.jpg loxodonts - loxodont. 3 | North African Loxodont Aka Atlas Loxodont, this is sub-species of the African Forest Loxodont has been extinct since Roman times. Historians believe they constituted Hannibal’s legion of war elephants. Accounts from the period actually go to great lengths to describe these creatures as not just dangerous but loud and smelly. https://www.118els.com/book daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605070276644-9NFK7GSH5O8FY1NXI7PB/B76.jpg book - book. 76 | Horton Horton stars in two Dr. Seuss books, one of which, Horton Hatches the Egg, introduced us to the Whos. Much has been made in recent years of artist/writer Theodor Giesel’s WWII anti-Japanese propaganda work, but he changed his views radically after the war, using the Whos to inspire and embolden us to value those we may overlook or misunderstand. (Horton also appears in a short story, Horton and the Kwuggerbug, published in 2014 with other “lost Seuss stories.”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605070370009-AY9EQU089RO2VK7YRWJN/B77.jpg book - book. 77 | Oliphaunt In The Lord of the Rings, the invading Haradrim strapped great tiered towers onto the backs of these beasts, and from these their archers and spearsmen rained death on their enemies. Worse, these beasts, goaded and maddened by their masters, charged through enemy lines and trampled swordsmen, horses, and piglets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605070413913-JHEPGT8AUGYTSB5WEU59/B78.jpg book - book. 78 | Sir Oliphant In the “Tale of Sir Thomas” in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, we meet the horrible giant Sir Oliphant (or Sire Olifaunt) (who attempts to crush fleeing piglets like bugs). Notably, Chaucer’s character Host interrupts this tale with the complaint that Chaucer’s rhymes are “not worth a turd.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605070461746-156YI3I8983QWW1DCIUL/B79.jpg book - book. 79 | Double Elephant Folio A publishing term: An elephant folio book may be up to 58.5 centimeters (23 inches) tall, and a double elephant folio up to 127 centimeters (50 inches) tall. James Audubon’s famous double elephant folio Birds of America, published in 1858, weighed 27 kilos (60 pounds). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605070513081-HUPHX0Q4A0JG680HRIVK/B80.jpg book - book. 80 | Heffalump In A.A. Milne’s Pooh books, Piglet has nightmares of being chased by a heffalump. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605070591230-XRRCEWFMQLRALUY6V6QR/B81.jpg book - book. 81 | Babar The first King of the Elephants, he showed us elephants can be effective, conscientious, and responsible administrators in the public service, which is more than you can say for 99% of elephants currently in office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605070637207-N3JSIT55F4T78EC0J8DX/B82.jpg book - book. 82 | Uncle The late bon vivant Jim Magee introduced us to J.P. Martin’s Uncle books, which we grew up without, but which fortunately were re-released in the early 2000s. Uncle lives in a mansion made of 100 skyscrapers connected by switchback railways running tower to tower, with water slides top to bottom. He and his friends have an ongoing battle with what we will just say are among the most colorful and surreal cast of villains in all of literature. https://www.118els.com/sacred daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139444880-LC4OVYZFMWUZ544ZAQTW/image-asset.jpeg sacred - sacred. 90 | Airavata Airavata, aka Elephant of the Clouds, is a white elephant ridden by the Hindu god Indra. He has ten tusks and five trunks. He originated out of the churning ocean of milk and is charged with guarding one of the points of compass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139474364-785BQJCBXFBW9QT0JECH/S100.jpg sacred - sacred. 100 | Ganesha or Ganesh, is an elephant-headed Hindu deity. He is one of the more popular gods; devotion to him extends to Jains and Buddhists. One story holds that Ganesha was created as a result of Shiva’s laughter. However, because Shiva considered Ganesh too handsome, he gave him an elephant head and potbelly. He is often shown riding, or attended b,y a mouse or shrew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139505526-10MJTOS6NTYT57URC5ZM/S107.jpg sacred - sacred. 107 | Erawan Erawan is the Thai version of Airavata. He is often depicted as a huge elephant with either three or thirty-three heads, each of which may feature more than two tusks. When the artist first drew him with his thirty-three heads, people kept thinking he was a cauliflower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139543578-O6055JMLPSAI3NRV9RXZ/S115.jpg sacred - sacred. 115 | Hierophant In tarot cards, a hierophant is one who interprets the sacred mysteries and other esoteric matters. In Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale, a hierophant interprets for Leontes the oracle of Apollo. Whenever it appears as an elephant, it is a mystodon. https://www.118els.com/rogue daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071798205-LM4LKKCULPHFMUQGY5TP/R71.jpg rogue - rogue. 71 | Mary Mary was hanged by a railroad derrick car at the Clinchfield Railyard in Erwin, Tennessee in 1916. The elephant, who toured with the Sparks World Famous Shows, had killed her inexperienced keeper the day before during a circus parade in Kingsport, Tennessee. Witnesses said the man struck Mary’s ear or tusk, which may have been sensitive from an infection, when she wandered from the parade line to eat a piece of discarded watermelon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071841530-DEMPGNL1E0A99YQTDL53/R72.jpg rogue - rogue. 72 | Topsy Reportedly tortured by a drunken handler whom she then killed, and subsequently mistreated by members of the public at a Coney Island amusement park, (one fed her a lighted cigar), Topsy the Elephant was judged too dangerous to keep. Her electrocution in 1903 before a small crowd was filmed by Edison Manufacturing’s movie company; the film was distributed for public viewing in nickel-operated kinetoscopes. It is held to be the first animal death on film. (Thomas Edison is popularly credited with arranging Topsy’s electrocution as a publicity stunt during the War of the Currents, but he was not involved in her death, which took place a decade after the battle for AC vs. DC domination ended.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071873401-EUBJZAW9IJDILEWI863M/R86.jpg rogue - rogue. 86 | George Orwell’s Elephant Orwell’s essay Shooting an Elephant tells the story of an English police officer serving in Burma who is asked by locals to dispatch an aggressive elephant. He does so reluctantly and is distressed to watch the animal’s painful, drawn-out death. The story is seen as an allegorical tale regarding British imperialism and Orwell’s notion that the tyranny of the white man would ultimately serve to destroy his own soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1607302841932-OKSY25M5TF4ZXJYDJC5R/R87.jpg rogue - rogue. 87 | Groucho Marx’s Elephant “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I don’t know. Then we tried to remove the tusks, but they were embedded in so firmly we couldn’t budge them. Of course, in Alabama, the Tusk-a-loosa. But that’s entirely ir-elephant to what I was talking about.” — Animal Crackers, 1930 https://www.118els.com/transition daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605070712871-LZPO2CFLCM09CWKOW4LN/T68.jpg transition - transition. 68 | Moeritherium More resembling a very young hippopotamus than an elephant, Moeritherium was a porky little fellow who lived 35 million years ago. Like the hippo, it took to the water and subsisted on plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605070864047-O3AU0QE229ZWM6L9CZS4/T69.jpg transition - transition. 69 | Astrapotherium This genus, like a cross between a small elephant and a large tapir, was directly related to neither, and was instead one of a group of now extinct South American ungulates; that means they had hooves, which did not preclude their having prominent toes. The nostrils were placed high on the head, indicating presence of a trunk, though some authorities think this instead points to the existence of an inflatable nasal cavity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071091484-0H0DTKZZL2YHGA9SPQOF/T70.jpg transition - transition. 70 | Gomphotheres Elephant-like proboscideans, they nevertheless evolved in parallel and were not close family. Widespread in North America in the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, after the Great American Biotic Interchange they covered Eurasia and South America as well. Remains dating 11,000 years ago found in Sonora, Mexico suggest humans hunted them. Most gomphotheres had elongated lower jaws as well as tusks, and were loud chewers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071132462-A8OH2FB237LTVV6O0SKQ/1L.jpg transition - transition. 83 | Pyrotheres With its proboscis a sort of half trunk, half pig-nose, its song was held to be as haunting as that of a Blue Hawthorne Thrush at eventide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071169737-H4EUE0QEZR68LSAVJYVC/T84.jpg transition - transition. 84 | Paleomastodon Ancestor of the mastodon, the paleomastodon, along with the ketomastodon, was a staple of early man’s diet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071221822-2HXWDC074KMACP7VJLQE/T85.jpg transition - transition. 85 | Gnathabelodon Its huge lower jaw and massive mouth make it very hard to draw without it looking like just an elephant being sick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071271004-K29EJ17639607DZGJJMR/T96.jpg transition - transition. 96 | Mastodon Mastodons were mostly solitary animals, unlike mammoths who lived in groups. They went extinct about 11,000 years ago, likely due to climate change and human hunting. Understandably, given they were both big and hairy, mastodons and mammoths are often confused. By us. They themselves were not particularly so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1607302926400-7UI6ICLOU4Z0YDVHA9HW/T97.jpg transition - transition. 97 | Mastodonna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071354224-OH17EHSKR7FO6ITWP3U7/T98.jpg transition - transition. 98 | Stegotetrabeladon With its massively long and curved tusks, the stegotetrabeladon was but one of twelve known species of stegodon. Stegodons were once believed to be the ancestors of elephants and mammoths, but it is now believed that they have no modern descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1607302975329-GYV32GC7VSZFEO1SBQTZ/T99.jpg transition - transition. 99 | Legotetrabeladon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071438163-HHWAD5RSQS0YRIPOEAVE/T104.jpg transition - transition. 104 | Deinotherium Three species are recognised, all of great size. A skull found in the Pliocene beds at Eppelsheim in 1836 measured 1.2 meters (4 feet) in length and 90 centimeters (3 feet) in breadth, indicating an animal exceeding modern elephants in size. Cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans has suggested Deinotheria survive in Central Africa and in the early 20th century were behind a series of mysterious hippo killings. Sure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071476702-BJXWQ1NQWBTJJCDEFSIC/T105.jpg transition - transition. 105 | Columbian Mammoth This was one of the last members of the American megafauna to become extinct, with several specimens dating to c. 7000 BC. It is estimated the average Columbian mammoth ate 300 pounds of vegetation a day. Columbian Mammoth tusks unearthed in central Texas were the largest ever found, at 5 meters (16 feet) long. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1607303021683-TMBQ5YVZGQD58T3W5V9H/T106.jpg transition - transition. 106 | GOP The elephant as the symbol for the Grand Old Party, or the U.S. Republican Party, originated in an 1874 cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly. Elephants are celebrated for their excellent memories, and this animal was held to represent the Conservative’s veneration of the values of the nation’s Founding Fathers; this creature is now practically extinct. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1607303066936-BOCJG9AFTDKREPX4RAIY/T112.jpg transition - transition. 112 | Wooly Mammoth Aka Tundra Mammoth, this was smaller and cuddlier than earlier mammoths. A small population of Wooly Mammoths is believed to have survived on St. Paul Island, Alaska until c. 6000 BC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071608754-O7NP0SRQ6VWM6UTC4WLR/T113.jpg transition - transition. 113 | Songhua River Mammoth The Songhua River Mammoth lived in Northern China during the Late Pleistocene from 100,000 to 10,000 years ago. A mounted skeleton in the Ibaraki Nature Museum in Japan reaches an overall height of 5.3 meters (over 17 feet). The creature would have weighed in excess of 17 metric tons, or three times the weight of the modern loxodont. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605071646775-OMO5HVC1LLCTOXP5XESY/T114.jpg transition - transition. 114 | Pygmy Mammoth This extinct species of dwarf mammoth, estimated to have been outweighed by its ancestor the Columbian Mammoth by at least ten-fold, lived on the outer Channel Islands of California. Dwarf mammoth remains of similar size were discovered on Russia’s Wrangel Island. Skulls of prehistoric pygmy elephants discovered on Crete featured a single large nasal cavity. They are thought have inspired belief in the literal existence of the Cyclops in Homer’s Odyssey. https://www.118els.com/eccentrics daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604885230943-FHBO9GQ8BBYUSRW8IJBJ/E16.jpg eccentrics - eccentrics. 16 | Malta Loxodont Dwarf elephants galloped up and down the beaches of the Mediterranean islands throughout the Pleistocene. The Malta Oliphant (not Loxodont; the artist got this wrong on the print, but kindly don’t let on) adult male measured only 96.5 centimeters (3 feet, 2 inches) tall and was a big hit at the dog park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604885676665-39BRQAJT87B10DY4G33W/E17.jpg eccentrics - eccentrics. 17 | Malayan Oliphant The artist confesses that he can’t find his notes for this one: The Malayan Oliphant is a hairless oliphant, It originates in the nation of Malaysia. Specimens of this type are generally considered to be hairless. This is like so many of the answers to essay questions we wrote in school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604885702841-8J6JTIA3DTFB31T47PHC/E18.jpg eccentrics - eccentrics. 18 | Mukna Oliphant More tuskless males are being born these days, and no one knows why. Some attribute this to diet and environmental stressors, others to an accelerated evolution brought about by divine intervention intending to help elephants escape extinction from ivory hunters. Game hunters have responded by de-evolving, booking safaris to shoot tuskless elephants and exultantly holding up the cut-off tails in their selfies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604885746584-LLP0COIEV4XK98081Q8B/E19.jpg eccentrics - eccentrics. 19 | Penang Oliphant Tusks serve elephants as weapons and as implements for rooting and digging. Faunal economists speculate the Penang Oliphant, born with back-bending tucks, emerged from the gene pool equipped for purposes of tilling, and that it augurs the development of elephants from hunter/gatherers to agrarians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604885983510-5EU81MGOD9BA3O4Q49DE/E20.jpg eccentrics - eccentrics. 20 | Motty Born 11 July 1978, at Chester Zoo, Cheshire; died 22 July 1978. Motty was the son of oliphant mother Sheba and loxodont father Jumbolino. Cheek, ears, legs, and wrinkled trunk were loxodontian; toenail count and single-fingered trunk were oliphantian. Motty had an oliphant-type center hump and a loxodont-type rear hump. He succumbed to an umbilical infection. We’d like to have met him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604886027160-AN787RWY3RKI3X0JX532/E21.jpg eccentrics - eccentrics. 21 | Multiple Tusk Anomaly In the epic poem Valmiki Ramayan, Hanuman, on entering Lanka, encounters multiple-tusked elephants guarding the palaces of Ravan. In reality, the phenomenon is believed to be caused by injury or infection to the root of the tusks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604886114289-RJ78MZSW9UZ6LBGIM09O/E22.jpg eccentrics - eccentrics. 22 | Bifurcating Tusk Anomaly Numerous unconfirmed sightings. As with instances of multiple tusks (No. 21 above), it is thought the explanation may be more prosaic; in this case the tusks may have been shattered or split. Grimacing? We are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604886199466-546UA8NIQUSFEOQ8PATS/E21.jpg eccentrics - eccentrics. 23 | Corkscrew Tusk Anomaly In the collection of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, just behind the jarred jackalopes, is a large tusk that exhibits an abnormal sinistral spiral. It serves as the MacGuffin in a seventh Indiana Jones movie, currently in development. https://www.118els.com/namesake daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979449664-R9BTYOSPK49B4U5FFBBC/N38.jpg namesake - namesake. 38 | Elephant Shrew The elephant shrew was originally named for the likeness of its nose to an elephant’s trunk. Interestingly, phylogenetic analysis in the late 20th century established that elephant shrews, until then improperly classified as “true shrews,” are in truth more closely related to elephants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979494020-47X4PY29L254YALWO1DB/N39.jpg namesake - namesake. 39 | Sea Elephant Aka Elephant Seal, these creatures measure up to 6 meters (20 feet) long, weigh 4½ tons, and are able to dive to a mile deep, holding their breath for up to two hours. By the end of the 19th century this animal, hunted for its oil-rich blubber, was believed extinct. However, a small breeding colony of 100 persisted on Guadalupe Island off the Baja California coast. Protected by Mexico and later the U.S., the sea elephant has thrived; global population has grown to 160,000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979527522-6UJJSF0GWFSV6Y7I1LK2/N40.jpg namesake - namesake. 40 | Elephant Bird An enormous flightless bird that lived on the island of Madagascar, the elephant bird became extinct around the 11th century. Although they lived in close proximity to the ostrich, their closest biological living relative is the kiwi. Scientists determined the bird reached 730 kilos (1,600 pounds) and stood 3 meters (9.8 feet) tall, making it the world’s largest and heaviest bird. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979594963-UVD3553XBKVYQ8VMI3C0/N41.jpg namesake - namesake. 41 | Elephant Trunk Snake The elephant trunk snake is an ambush predator that feeds on fishes and amphibians. Its skin is baggy and loose like an elephant’s trunk, and it catches its prey by wrapping its wrinkly body firmly around the victim; in particular it prefers those fishes whose bodies are coated with a viscous protective mucus. Watching it take its prey is like watching a cooked rigatoni wrestle boiled okra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979653004-FJ6OSKSFRAALXDLTUJ7F/image-asset.jpeg namesake - namesake. 42 | Elephant Beetle Elephant beetles range up to 15 centimeters (6 inches) in length. In Costa Rica and Nicaragua the male's head may be decorated with gold and used as a charm necklace. Pentagon-sponsored researchers at UC-Berkeley have implanted electrodes into elephant beetle pupae to enable drone-like remote control of the adults’ flying behavior. Sigh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979689823-XK0OSGKQXJMUX4D2O5IR/N43.jpg namesake - namesake. 43 | Elephant Louse Elephant lice are actually ectoparasites of the very creature they resemble. Their elongated mouthparts function as a drill, enabling them to penetrate the thick skins of oliphants and loxodonts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979733932-RBCVEC424C00CZSPRQ4Q/N44.jpg namesake - namesake. 44 | Elephanthead Lousewort Its large stem, called a peduncle, supports bright pink, purple, or white flowers, each having a long pointed beak-like protrusion resembling an elephant trunk. Additionally, the lateral lobes of the flower just so happen to look like elephant ears. Frank Zappa’s fifth child, boy or girl, was to have been christened Elephanthead Lousewort Zappa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979763057-17YNNTJWJQXRRPESUWMI/N45.jpg namesake - namesake. 45 | Elephant Garlic This softball-sized member of the leek family can weigh as much as a pound. Flavor is milder and sweeter than true garlic and often thought to more resemble the flavor of shallots. Native to China and introduced in the U.S. by Czech and Slav immigrants, it was considered by many to be for the lower classes, given the potent odor left on breath and skin, but its popularity grew in the 1950s as garlic emerged from inner-city neighborhoods to find favor with WASPs sick to death of macaroni and cheese with the little cut-up hot dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979795795-JHTDUPA57162RYOGVKQS/N53.jpg namesake - namesake. 53 | Elephantfish These fish are known for having large brains and remarkably high intelligence, the cerebellum being greatly enlarged and providing a brain-to-body size ratio similar to that of human beings. Their morphology has led aquarists to give them the name baby whale. Elephantfish possess electric organs and are known to generate weak electric fields, enabling them to negotiate turbid waters where you can barely see your trunk in front of your face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979836527-5K7VFU1V2KUBGKE3TMT1/N54.jpg namesake - namesake. 54 | Elephantnose Fish These are known for their large brains and extraordinarily high intelligence, the cerebellum being enlarged and thus providing a brain-to-body size ratio like that of human beings. They can play the electric organ, and their morphology has led fishiologists to give them the name of— it’s the same exact fish as the elephantfish, only it turned out to have a completely separate, mutually unaware Wikipedia reference under this name. They’re both probably still there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979876556-8GD7AG1I88NQ50NXBQDD/N55.jpg namesake - namesake. 55 | Elephant Shark Not a true shark, but rather belonging to the group known as ratfish, this creature diverged from sharks about 400 million years ago. When researchers compared its genome with those of other vertebrates, they found it had changed less from its presumed ancestral form than any other vertebrate (thus taking the title away from the coelacanth, previously celebrated for possessing the slowest-evolving genome). The elephant shark’s genome is thus the closest yet to that of the first jawed vertebrates living nearly half a billion years ago, which gave rise to many modern animals, including us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979920867-KY3G3WDUF3TW4NYRQOBK/N56.jpg namesake - namesake. 56 | Elephant Foot Palm A member of the agave family, this plant is native to the desert of eastern Mexico. It grows as tall as 9 meters (30 feet) from its distended base, which can reach over a meter across. The gray, swollen “foot” can store gallons of water and see the tree through extended drought. The artist expresses his regret for not having included a fleeing Piglet in this one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979956791-EMSVKJSLE181L28EIYSG/N57.jpg namesake - namesake. 57 | Elephant Foot Yam A tropical tuber grown primarily in Africa and Asia, it resembles a soccer-ball sized rock, weighs up to 13 kilos (30 pounds), and has awful-smelling flowers. Its yellow-pink flesh, however, is tasty and highly nutritious, and is used in any number of cuisines. It especially popular in soups, curries, and chutneys, though it may also be prepared like french fries, and it is held to be a remarkably expeditious remedy for constipation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604979994793-GEUMNVRO5HTQXL5PWBHN/N58.jpg namesake - namesake. 58 | Elephant’s Foot The Elephant’s Foot is a large mass of deadly radioactive black corium formed during the Chernobyl disaster. Named for its wrinkly appearance and similarity in size and shape to an elephant’s foot, it lies beneath Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor No. 4, in Reactor Room 217. You can’t miss it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604980024371-I3UGDJ3HA4LGGZNNTJK9/N59.jpg namesake - namesake. 59 | Elephant Ear Plant Elephant ear plant, O elephant ear plant, Lend us thy ear of ele-phant. Other houseplants’ leaves are so paltry, so scant, but yours are big & veiny like the hands of our aunt who offers critiques pithy & intellige-ant about our making these lines scan better, which, clearly, we can’t. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604980057121-HU3GROZNZAF61TS36T6D/N60.jpg namesake - namesake. 60 | Elephant Ear Bun It’s a fried doughnut, or bread disk, sold at state fairs and carnivals throughout the U.S. It may be covered with powdered sugar or chopped nuts and topped with a thick sweet corn syrup. It is similar but not identical to a funnel cake; for that matter it is even more similar to, in pure caloric value, an adult bull elephant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604980110973-D1R56H1Q0W257ZS9VIW5/N61.jpg namesake - namesake. 61 | Elephant Grass Elephant ear grass, O elephant ear grass, we anticipated you to be our most boring entry, but you turn out to be our hope and savior. Besides serving as a protective sanctuary for many nesting birds with your razor-sharp blade edges, research indicates you absorb four times as much carbon dioxide as do trees and other plants. With proper precautions to eliminate your wanton introduction as an invasive species, you may perhaps be introduced to new environments cheaply and easily, to help us address climate change. https://www.118els.com/place daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604891613537-KLD9ZIB2B8MIG0LA61NX/P32.jpg place - place. 32 | Elephant Lake Aka Spirit Lake, this is on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. It is alternately open or closed to the public by the local tribal council depending on degree of vandalism the surrounding park has been experiencing. Elephant Lake is known for rainbow and silver trout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892521529-PQQSHFQ019UCKRMAYPNG/P33.jpg place - place. 33 | Mammoth Cave The longest known cave system in the world, Mammoth Cave is 668 kilometers (or 415 miles) in length. Mammoth Cave is home to the endangered Kentucky Cave Shrimp, a sightless albino shrimp. Common fossils found in the cave include blastoids and gastropods, but no mammoths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892488855-UPYSKAGUWH2JMV3JVD6L/image-asset.jpeg place - place. 34 | Elephant and Castle The Elephant and Castle has two linked London Underground stations on the Northern and Bakerloo lines. The name is derived from a coaching inn, which Shakespeare mentions in Twelfth Night, in Act 3, Scene 3, when Antonio says “In the south suburbs, at the Elephant, is best to lodge.” Nearby, on some nights, the London College of Communication appears out of the mist to the howls of wolves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892560818-1TBPJSPO5SC1ZFYVPUS0/P35.jpg place - place. 35 | De Olifant Originally built in 1856 at Oostwold, it drained the Oosterwolderpolder. In 1867, it was moved to Burdaard, whereupon it drained the Olifantpolder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892609032-949DP8SK5TU8U9NM7AJG/P36.jpg place - place. 36 | Elephant Mound A prehistoric earthwork near Wyalusing, Wisconsin, it draws its name from its massive form and prolongation of the effigy’s nose Some hold it to be evidence that local Indians once lived contemporaneously with mastodons; some think it’s just a bear with a big nose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892643937-LXXJOLNRNCNUOVUTH75I/P37.jpg place - Place 37 | Elephant Graveyard It was long believed the Legendary Elephant Graveyard was a secret place old elephants went to die. Currently, demand in the EU for legal antique ivory continues to fuel the ongoing poaching of living elephants; Japan continues to import great quantities of ivory. In 2017, Donald Trump lifted a ban on ivory imports from Zimbabwe that had been implemented by Barack Obama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892685620-DCGJ088X6PXRVLG14MDS/image-asset.jpeg place - place. 46 | Elephant of the Bastille Conceived in 1808 by Napoléon I, this monument was to be made from bronze and located in the Place de la Bastille. However, only a plaster full-scale model was ever built. At 24 meters (78 feet) high, it featured in Hugo’s Les Misérables, giving shelter to the street urchin Gavroche. When in 1848 its neighbors complained rats had infested the elephant, it was finally removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892721387-K8QVC8ORL4QROCF321NF/P47.jpg place - place. 47 | Elephant Mountain You would be hard pressed to find a single nation on Earth without an Elephant Mountain. Fine, Lichtenstein does not have one. But it does have an Elephant Hill that is very steep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892766682-UOM1KCI03MZ2E78AODU6/P48.jpg place - Place 48 | Elephant Island Not to be confused with Elephanta Island, Elephant Jason Island, Elephantine Island, Elephants Island, or all the other Elephant Islands, the best-known Elephant Island is an uninhabited mountainous island (probably it has an Elephant Mountain) off the coast of Antarctica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892812870-OM3PG29EUIKDQMEPV433/P49.jpg place - place. 49 | Elephant Arch Elephant Arch is a natural sandstone formation in the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in northern Utah. Surrounding it are numerous towers and fins, including the Parade of Elephants. The trail is a sandy wash, so plan on a workout for your calves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892847264-HB9Z9K4RYP8LSE6N96ES/P50.jpg place - place. 50 | Elephant Butte Having a volcanic core similar to Devils Tower in Wyoming, it is an island on Elephant Butte Reservoir in New Mexico. Double Arch, a feature of Elephant Butte, appeared as a backdrop for the opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (co-written by Tom Stoppard, of all people). In 2014, just beneath the surface of the sandy beach, a bachelor party stumbled across a stegomastodon skull in excellent condition. It was awesome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892906158-0W9PJMM52HI105VEGZES/P51.jpg place - place. 51 | Elephant Building A rare architectural expression of Whimsical Neo-Brutalism, this 32-story urban complex in Bangkok houses a shopping mall, business offices, and luxury condos. Its tusks are balconies, its eyes are huge windows, and its tail is comprised of twenty stories of smoked-glass enclosed rooms jutting from its rear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604892949236-4B1KNTKTXZTNEFJ87QTT/P52.jpg place - place. 52 | Elephant Hotel Until the construction of the Elephant Building (No. 51) in 1997, this was the world’s largest elephant. Built in 1881 as a real estate gimmick, “Lucy the Elephant” has served as a hotel, a restaurant, and a beach house. It’s now a tourist attraction inviting visitors to experience the thrill of standing inside a six-story elephant. https://www.118els.com/nonexisting daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605140208688-5SR120MHCXWX7B7B4YUX/X93.jpg non-existing - non-existing. 93 | Aloysius Snuffleupagus For years, only Big Bird and the children of Sesame Street knew about the Snuffleupagus; adults never saw him and dismissed him as purely imaginary. This changed when producers of the show learned this might imply to children they could not count on being believed in regard to other matters in their lives that they tried to bring to light, such as abuse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605140300770-YW6G7JIGLNZQE98IXQMR/X94.jpg non-existing - non-existing. 94 | elephantom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605140352867-H8WP3H3TXFQ6SE41ILTJ/X95.jpg non-existing - non-existing. 95 | elephemeral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605140393445-TH7YMHBNKSV9X1WSKTQG/1L.jpg non-existing - non-existing. 103 | pink elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605140431415-V4I5H9Z649J4MH55DGFI/X110.jpg non-existing - non-existing. 110 | elephant in the room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605140474087-0NNSMLFWGBW3V8WZT41T/X118.jpg non-existing - non-existing. 118 | elephant in Cairo This is a term used in programming to describe a piece of data purposefully inserted at the end of a search space to ensure that the search algorithm terminates. Ta-da! https://www.118els.com/cousins daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604545223433-LHUBNWLQ84TX4MKYLIOD/C12.jpg cousins - cousins. 12 | Rock Badger Rock badgers, also known as hyraxes, along with the Sirenians (Nos. 13–15) are among the species most closely related to the elephant. Rock badgers have two prominent tusk-like upper incisors, and they tuck their testicles up inside their abdominal cavities, as male elephants do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604545297410-KBWY28YLCEJ1EZG6UU04/C13.jpg cousins - cousins. 13 | Manatee Manatees, aka sea cows, demonstrate an intelligence similar to dolphins, although they’re less in-your-face. Unfortunately, their curiosity, coupled with intense coastal development, results in collisions with boat props, leading to maiming, disfigurement, or death. Many manatees show spiral scar tissue along their backs caused by ships lacking propellor guards. The U.S. Geological Survey predicts if boat mortality rates continue to increase, the population will not make it to the next century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604545317847-CPJDA7U7HIBG2C52MBZ4/image-asset.jpeg cousins - cousins. 14 | Dugong The population has shrunk by a fifth over the last century, having disappeared from the waters of Hong Kong, Mauritius, Taiwan, and other parts of the western Pacific. Sailors have often mistaken dugongs for mermaids, which mermaids take offense at. Three dugongs remain in solitary captivity; one in Japan, one at Sea World Indonesia, and one at Sydney Aquarium, They are, however, social animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604545338596-ONFR0CXJTEBQMNEZSQJC/C15.jpg cousins - cousins. 15 | Stellar’s Sea Cow As adults, these grew up to 9 meters (30 feet) long and may have weighed as much as 11 tons. Within 27 years of their discovery by Europeans, the creature was reported hunted to extinction. In 1962, the crew of the Russian whaling ship Buran reported a group of marine mammals with short trunks grazing on seaweed in shallows off Kamchatka in the Gulf of Anadyr; the crew reported seeing six animals ranging from 6 to 8 meters (20 to 26 feet). In addition, there are alleged sightings by local fishermen in the Kuril Islands and around the Kamchatka and Chukchi peninsulas. Shh. https://www.118els.com/noble daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605068287813-SVY4G7RL6426MJPRWZ8Z/No62.jpg noble - noble. 62 | Oliphant Chuckerbutty Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty was an English composer, well known as a church organist and as a cinema organist. If you should wish your child to be a musician and composer, you could do worse than to give your child a name with such cadence as Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605068347282-3BDSEV3Y5MWTB81IOK0T/No63.jpg noble - noble. 63 | Harry Belafonte Singer, songwriter, actor. Political and social activist. Humanitarian. We take this opportunity to unabashedly celebrate the great Harry Belafonte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605068402404-7JIEUHK4MRT9FCZGLH9F/No64.jpg noble - noble. 64 | Joseph Carey Merrick Nicknamed “The Elephant Man,” Joseph Merrick suffered substantial deformities. The Not Here to Frighten You But to Enlighten You tagline for his promotions only hints at the deeply isolating personal struggle he underwent despite his popularity as a curiosity. We admire elephants for the miracle of their compassion for one another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605068452197-110WGAG9BYS2TCV0TCM3/1L.jpg noble - noble. 65 | Dumbo In this 1941 Disney animated feature film, its main character Jumbo Jr., nicknamed “Dumbo,” is ridiculed for his big ears. Which shortly he learns he can use as wings enabling him to fly. The Boeing 747 was initially to be marketed as a dumbo jet until negative focus group responses led to a rethink of the aircraft’s branding strategy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605068500312-KFYOY4MY62IH2D5NAIR9/No66.jpg noble - noble. 66 | Mamie Mamie, a Knoxville Zoo loxodont, was one of the first “mature” elephant painters (who now number as many as thirty worldwide). Zoo elephants in Thailand not given formal training have actually been observed to use sticks to scratch images on their cage walls. Up to four tons of bananas, peanuts, and carrots have been known to be consumed at a single gallery opening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605068555241-SS4EMOJ06NEBIMGLKO8Z/No67.jpg noble - noble. 67 | Batyr One of several talking elephants. No surprise that zoo visitors to the Karaganda Zoo (probably small boys) taught Batyr the word penis. [Note this word does not appear on the 3x2-foot poster, which substitutes another word from Batyr’s vocabulary — eat. The artist maintains childhood innocence is vital and something to be invested in for as long as possible, that we may as adults struggle less to summon wonder, delight, and desire.] https://www.118els.com/craft daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139100298-CMMGH3S8OUYKG7QPVXWC/Cr73.jpg craft - craft. 73 | HMS Elephant A fully rigged Arrogant-class ship of the line, Elephant had an array of white bristles on its upper lip and two keratinous plates in its mouth for chewing. It fed mainly on kelp and communicated with sighs and snorts – wait that’s Stellar Sea Cow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139133578-XQZDDNMMUV8QAP1UXGUY/Cr74.jpg craft - craft. 74 | Boeing 747 Jumbo A 747’s tail is as high as a six-story building. Its wing-span is longer than the Wright Brothers’ entire first flight. It has logged the equivalent of over a hundred thousand trips to the moon and back, flying six billion people. One 747-8 Freighter can airlift nine million 72-hour medical kits or 122,000 military MREs (Meal Ready to Eat) to a disaster event. In 1991, as part of Operation Solomon, a 747 cargo-jet took off from Addis Ababa carrying 1084 Ethiopian Jews; it landed in Israel with 1086, two babies having been born on the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139174725-DVZCW7NO87AW3VRECJCT/Cr75.jpg craft - craft. 75 | “Mastodon” Locomotive The Mastodon was the world's first successful 4-8-0 steam locomotive. In the live-action opening sequence of the 2000 film Thomas and the Magic Railroad, the locomotive Rainbow Sun is portrayed by the only Mastodon still operating. Roger Ebert gave the film one star, writing, “that Thomas and the Magic Railroad made it into theaters at all is something of a mystery.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139244821-5PIVZ976EM5QDKRQ5VQM/Cr88.jpg craft - craft. 88 | Oliphant mk1B A South African version of the British Centurion tank redesigned and rebuilt with Israeli help, it is held to be the finest indigenous tank design on the African continent. It frightens the bejesus, however, out of piglets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139293524-S4J25JA0DNVXIV4A4S57/Cr89.jpg craft - craft. 89 | Martinsyde G.100 Elephant The Martinsyde G.100 Elephant was a WWI British combat aircraft. It gained its name from its immensity and profound lack of maneuverability. Unsuccessful as a fighter, the Elephant was put to use lugging around bombs and dropping them. https://www.118els.com/captive daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604890938994-XVDNWEMM6KZ3X3JBI5W1/C24.jpg captive - captive. 24 | War First use for a new technology has often been for the purposes of war. Amongst war elephants, oliphants were the favored species, being easier to train, better swimmers, and able to chalk up more kills than the smaller North African Loxodont used by the armies of Carthage. It is reported that the army of the Mauryan Empire fielded up to 9,000 war oliphants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604890994242-AGP9157CUH2LSUP33UUA/c25.jpg captive - captive. 25 | Execution Execution by elephant was a common means of capital punishment in South Asia until the late 1700s, especially in India, where oliphants were trained to torture, dismember, or crush prisoners in public executions. This practice, employed by the rulers to emphasize their might, was eventually curbed by European colonizers, who used other methods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1607735192889-AIBS15C82M7APU07EKHV/C26.jpg captive - captive. 26 | Hunting Maharajas, and later the “great white hunters” of the Raj, rode trained elephants to hunt tigers from howdahs. A featured event at many Maharaji birthday parties was a fight staged between hunter bulls feeling their musth, a periodic state when testosterone levels in males may increase sixty-fold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1607735229728-1E7U07QI29JBUO0VNZVN/C27.jpg captive - captive. 27 | Logging Elephant owners must find ways to feed creatures that can eat up to a quarter-ton of food a day. Some turn to illegal logging, which requires elephants to work fast and hard. Many are fed bananas laced with amphetamines, and these elephants become drug-dependent, exhausted, and sickened — and often discarded when the timber business struggles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604891187130-2X2O6HXN9W39GGM5G99M/C28.jpg captive - captive. 28 | Polo Elephant polo, played in Nepal and Thailand under the auspices of the World Elephant Polo Association, claims to enforce strict rules regarding elephant welfare. Nevertheless PETA has alleged cruel mistreatment of polo elephants. Granted, PETA’s record is spotty, but in this instance the organization presented credible evidence leading to match cancellations, sponsorship withdrawal, and the removal of references to elephant polo records in the Guinness Book of World Records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1607735359382-ZPF4WPGFS4DNZPRKP81Y/C29.jpg captive - captive. 29 | Circus The Periodic Table may well imply people are indifferent to the suffering of elephants. But people, William Blake tells us, are made up of two parts — one part capable only of good, the other capable of good or evil. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has ended its elephant acts, and cities across the U.S. have passed regulations outlawing such acts, as well as the use of bullhooks to train elephants. Drip by drip, we say. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604891256247-JAZDBRQCHL984MQ7LY5V/C30.jpg captive - captive. 30 | Zoo “Being kept in relative confinement and isolation (is) a kind of living death for an animal as socially developed and interdependent as we now know elephants to be,” wrote Charles Siebert in The New York Times (2006). Some people are doing something about this — Cher, for instance —and have put up the money to buy solitary elephants that they may be released from soul-dispiriting prisons and re-settled in preserves and sanctuaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604891380055-5RLQHYN0UOZ4EEMNQC8E/C31.jpg captive - captive. 31 | Temple Temple elephants, especially festival elephants, are dressed and ornamented with great pomp and treated with veneration. As a result these creatures may become glowing beacons of enlightenment. (See No. 109.) https://www.118els.com/desperation daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139660592-IB2GUJR64UUT3XOXRY32/D91.jpg desperation - desperation. 91 | Wilshire Phant-o-matic Designed in collaboration with Frank Iero of the band My Chemical Romance, the Epiphone Wilshire Phant-O-Matic electric guitar features classic humbuckers and is the perfect guitar for trunking rhythm. Perhaps ironically, it has a mock ivory finish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139729604-R1APVDMH6Z9JV28R9UVX/D92.jpg desperation - desperation. 92 | Elephant Gambit Aka the Queen’s Pawn Countergambit, the Elephant Gambit is a rarely played chess opening beginning with the moves e4 e52 | Nf3 d5!? Generally thought risky, it enables White to capture either of Black’s center pawns, leaving Black, in a passive position, to mutter ¡@#¢ƒ∞§. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139821406-51N5N9634R2F5ZG6FZGO/D101.jpg desperation - desperation. 101 | Order of the Elephant The Elefantordenen or Order of the Elephant is a Danish royal order of chivalry and Denmark’s highest-ranked honor. Nelson Mandela received the award in 1996. In 2004, the original mold for the elephant was stolen from the court jeweler, Georg Jensen; thus, Elefantordenen badges offered on eBay should be considered suspect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139876536-OYQH9BTGZ38IIBV4LM61/D102.jpg desperation - desperation. 102 | Order of Carlsberg Elephants Brewed with pilsner malt and rice, Carlsberg Elephant beer has a malty character and offers a hint of caramel finished with a dry bitterness. The beer honors the trained female loxodonts who, with sharpened tusks, stand guard 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at the gates of the Carlsberg Brewery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139922907-OWL4SDCEWUL4WWQAANGB/D108.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605139989530-PO0AIJA48CHLUJTITOJW/D109.jpg desperation - desperation. 109 | White Elephant Monarchs and potentates used to attend each other’s white elephant exchanges all the time, giving each other white elephants. The white elephant served as a symbol of royal power and prestige in Asia. (The flag of the kingdom of Laos, before it became a republic in 1975, featured three white elephants holding an umbrella.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605140022125-P2YM2O1Y9BTPRZW79Z7W/D116.jpg desperation - desperation. 116 | Jellophant If you look through cookbooks from the 1930s, you’ll find a third of the salad recipes are gelatin-based, with varied fillings of figs, dates, bananas, maraschino cherries, marshmallows, and almonds. In the 1950s, these salads became so popular that Jell-O came up with savory and vegetable flavors like celery, Italian, mixed vegetable, and seasoned tomato, until the people stormed the Jell-O factory and burned it to the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1605140059972-3H0X5ZWVAVJE1TIF8A2T/D117.jpg desperation - desperation. 117 | Umbrellaphant Bry says he vaguely remembers drawing this at three in the morning as he tried to get the Table done for scheduled press time. https://www.118els.com/oliphants daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1601517907440-97T7O917AB9RF2T1Y9Z9/image-asset.jpeg oliphants - oliphant. 4 | Indian Oliphant What we typically think of when we think of the Asian Elephant, it survives in separate ranges in southern India, the Himalayan foothills, northwest India, southern China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and the Malaysian peninsula. Most males of this subspecies do possess tusks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604455485041-FYHAKDG7EWU6EWJ4OGIB/5O.jpg oliphants - oliphant. 5 | Sri Lankan Oliphant This is the largest and overall darkest of four subspecies; however, patches of lighter depigmentation may be found on the face, ears, trunk, and belly. The herds, of one to two dozen, are commonly led by the oldest female. The Sri Lankan Oliphant has a relatively larger skull relative to body size. Between 1990 and 1994, 261 died from gunshot and land mines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604455963569-QV2AZN2JBORV5MLNVK1S/6L.jpg oliphants - oliphant. 6 | Sumatran Oliphant It is the second smallest of the subspecies, between 1.7 to 2.6 meters (5.5 to 8.5 feet) tall at the shoulder; it is sometimes called the “pocket elephant” because of its size. More than 75% of their potential habitat has been lost in the last 35 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1604456196888-7HRTYQZT1RM7OJUOJ2S1/7O.jpg oliphants - oliphant. 7 | Borneo Oliphant DNA evidence points to this oliphant as having become genetically different from other oliphants after wandering away from its cousins on the mainland 3,000 centuries ago. The smallest of the subspecies, the Borneo has a long tail that may touch the ground, larger ears, and straighter tusks. They are also remarkably tame. The population has declined by more than half over the last three generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1606182465664-RHOMUDUM4JVWC9S6P74T/8O.jpg oliphants - oliphant. 8 | Vietnamese/Laotian Oliphant The elephant population in Vietnam and Laos is currently undergoing mitochondrial DNA variation testing to determine whether it constitutes a fifth subspecies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab4dbc20e01f789ddfd693/1606182442582-6CDDFJ200NGAGY8TYP31/9O.jpg oliphants - oliphant. 9 | Chinese Oliphant The Chinese oliphant population is sometimes separated out subspecies-wise as E. m. rubridens (pink-tusked elephant). 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