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Elephants (Elephantiae) are a family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia. They were once classified along with other thick skinned animals in a now invalid order, Pachydermata. There are three living species: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant (until recently known collectively as the African Elephant), and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant). Other species have become extinct since the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago, the Mammoths being the most well-known of these.

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  • Trainers shout, "Tail Up!" when they want these performers to follow each other trunk to tail
  • One tale tells of a place where these pachyderms go to die & the ivory lies around for the taking
  • In the 14th C. Laos was united into the kingdom Lan Xang, the "land of a million" of these large animals
  • Although these huge animals are generally docile, when the bulls go into musth they can turn violent
  • Hannibal had 38 of these animals when he began crossing the Alps, but few survived the ice & snow
  • Rarely seen to die of old age in the wild, it's mistakenly thought they have a secret graveyard
  • Led by a dominant female, a herd of these multi-ton animals spends about 16 hours a day eating
  • In 280 B.C. King Pyrrhus used these animals to trample the Roman infantry, perhaps giving Hannibal ideas
  • "Circus Polka" was originally choreographed for these huge circus animals; it's now danced by humans
  • "India's big, but Africa's bigger, the same as their" these animals, "easy to figure"
  • An old man recalls his time with the Benzini Brothers Circus in "Water for" these large beasts
  • These largest pachyderms communicate with infrasonic signals below the range of human hearing
  • The "Lucanian Cows" Pyrrhus used in his invasion of Italy were these, from Asia
  • The inaugural issue from April 1970 featured a cover story on a breeding program for these animals in Sri Lanka
  • Overseen by WEPA, a polo tourney is played in Nepal each year using these huge animals instead of horses
  • Lincoln accepted 2 tusks from the King of Siam, but turned down these animals, saying trains move goods just fine
  • Weighing up to 8,000 pounds, rhinos are the second-largest land animals, second only to these
  • 2 genera of this mammal make up the order Proboscidea
  • A job you might want to try in India is as a mahout, a keeper of these large animals
  • After Rama IV of Siam saw his flag with this animal flown upside-down, he switched to a striped flag
  • Meaning "intoxicated", musth is when the bulls of the African or Asian species of these go beserk
  • A herd of these animals, loxodonta africana, is stampeding your way in a wall of gray
  • The "Circus Polka" composed by Igor Stravinsky for the Ringling Brothers was originally intended to be danced by these
  • Between its show & a conservation center, Ringling Bros. has the W. Hem.'s largest sustainable pop. of the Asian this
  • Sara Gruen:"Water for ____"

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