query: For how long is an elephant pregnant?

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: interview with George Stuart, a contemporary of Orwell in Burma, who said that Orwell was transferred to Kathar as punishment for shooting an elephant. "An elephant was considered a valuable asset to any timber firm...and Orwell would have been severely reprimanded for such unnecessary slaughter. It was not long after the incident that he was transferred from Moulmein to a quiet post in Upper Burma called Katha." Davison also includes in the complete works a news item from the "Rangoon Gazette", March 22, 1926 which describes a Major E. C. Kenny shooting an elephant in similar circumstances. When one biographer

title: Ruby (elephant)

text: and offered her a brush and paints.she also a very talented Elephant. In time, she was moved into the main enclosure with the zoo's two other elephants, both African. African and Asian Elephants are of different species, and Ruby did not get along with the other two. Zoo officials decided to breed her, to provide her with companionship. In 1996, when she was 22, Ruby was shipped to the Tulsa Zoo to mate with a male elephant named Sneezy (who still lives in Tulsa) and lived in Tulsa for about a year. When she became pregnant in 1997, she was

title: An Elephant for Aristotle

text: that the goal of the whole enterprise is essentially a malicious prank concocted by Alexander on his former teacher: he gives Aristotle the elephant but no funds for its upkeep, while sending the funds (but no elephant) to the savant's arch-rival Xenocrates. The story is founded on the fact that Aristotle's writings include an apparently eye-witness description of an Indian elephant, though the circumstances under which he might have come into contact with such an animal are unknown. Contemporary reviews of the novel were favorable. The "Chicago Daily Tribune" called it "an amazing narrative vehicle for the display of ...

title: An Elephant for Aristotle

text: tasked by Alexander the Great to bring an elephant captured from the Indian ruler Porus, to Athens as a present for Alexander's old tutor, Aristotle. Leading a motley crew that includes an Indian elephantarch to care for the creature, a Persian warrior, a Syrian sutler and a Greek philosopher, Leon sets out to cross the whole of the ancient known world from the Indus River to Athens. The journey is long and adventurous, involving frequent skirmishes with bandits, unruly noblemen, Macedonian commanders with ideas of their own about who is in charge, and a runaway Persian noblewoman. It doesn't help

title: An Elephant for Aristotle

text: taken up by the well-known Portuguese writer José Saramago, in the 2008 novel "A Viagem do Elefante" ("The Voyage of the Elephant"), though in a very different literary style from de Camp's and set in a very different time (16th Century Europe) (see ). An Elephant for Aristotle An Elephant for Aristotle, is a 1958 historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in hardback by Doubleday, and in paperback by Curtis in 1971. The first British edition was published by Dobson in 1966. The book was reissued with a new introduction by Harry Turtledove

title: How Long Is Forever?

text: novella has also been translated to other languages, such as Thai (as ตลอดกาลน่ะนานแค่ไหน, by Sirindhorn) and Turkish (as "Sonsuz Ne Kadar Uzun?", by Nuri Razi). "How Long Is Forever?" has been adapted into a 2001 Chinese TV drama series directed by Chen Weiming, starring Xu Fan as Bai Daxing. How Long Is Forever? How Long Is Forever?, also translated as How Far Is Forever? and How Long Will Eternity Last?, is a 1999 Chinese novella by Tie Ning. Set in Beijing, the novella follows a sincere and altruistic-to-a-fault girl named Bai Daxing who never changes: forever like a meek child,

title: How Long, How Long Blues

text: How Long, How Long Blues "How Long, How Long Blues" (also known as "How Long Blues" or "How Long How Long") is a blues song recorded by the American blues duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell in 1928. The song became "an instant best-seller" and one of the first blues standards, inspiring many blues songs of the era. It has been recorded by many artists, not only in blues but also country and western, pop, and jazz. "How Long, How Long Blues" is based on "How Long Daddy", recorded in 1925 by Ida Cox with Papa Charlie Jackson. Leroy Carr

title: An Elephant for Aristotle

text: "adds to the entertainment." "The Washington Post" called it an "engaging new novel," and pronounced that "if all books on ancient history were written with the free-flowing grace of "An Elephant for Aristotle", many more of us would have an appreciation of the civilizations that came before ours." It stated the author "has given this historical novel a different treatment–one which scrupulously tries to respect historical fact but doesn't take itself too seriously–the change is all for the better." The idea of using the travel of an elephant across different countries as the focus of a historical novel was also

title: An Elephant for Aristotle

text: An Elephant for Aristotle An Elephant for Aristotle, is a 1958 historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in hardback by Doubleday, and in paperback by Curtis in 1971. The first British edition was published by Dobson in 1966. The book was reissued with a new introduction by Harry Turtledove as a trade paperback and ebook by Phoenix Pick in March 2013. It is the first of de Camp's historical novels in order of writing, and third chronologically. The novel concerns the adventures of Leon of Atrax, a Thessalian cavalry commander who has been

title: How Long Is Forever?

text: How Long Is Forever? How Long Is Forever?, also translated as How Far Is Forever? and How Long Will Eternity Last?, is a 1999 Chinese novella by Tie Ning. Set in Beijing, the novella follows a sincere and altruistic-to-a-fault girl named Bai Daxing who never changes: forever like a meek child, she always gives in to others' demands even as she gets used and dumped over and over again. Through the static Bai Daxing, Tie Ning also explores the changing values in Beijing from the 1970s Cultural Revolution to the 1990s as China experiences rapid economic growth and urbanization. The

title: How Long, How Long Blues

text: Blue"); Davy Graham (1963, "The Guitar Player"); Hot Tuna (1970, "Hot Tuna"); Grateful Dead, who performed it live once (February 12, 1989, at the Great Western Forum, with Spencer Davis as a guest); Eric Clapton (1994, "From the Cradle"); and Pinetop Perkins (1997, "Born in the Delta"). How Long, How Long Blues "How Long, How Long Blues" (also known as "How Long Blues" or "How Long How Long") is a blues song recorded by the American blues duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell in 1928. The song became "an instant best-seller" and one of the first blues standards, inspiring many

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: dirty work of the Empire at close quarters". The narrator singles out "Buddhist priests"—persons synonymous with peace and goodwill—to be "the worst of all" and comments on how he would gladly "drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest's guts". Having killed the elephant, the narrator considers how he was glad it killed the "coolie" as that gave him full legal backing. The essay finishes with him wondering if they will even understand his motive for having killed the elephant as he merely wished to salvage his pride. The narrator's conscience plagues him greatly as he finds himself trapped between the

title: An Elephant Sitting Still

text: Four nobodies struggle through another day in their life. They take the long-distance bus to Shenyang to reach the zoo in Manzhouli to see the mythical elephant that sits still and ignores everything around it and find hope. An Elephant Sitting Still An Elephant Sitting Still () is a 2018 Chinese film written, directed and edited by Hu Bo (also known by his pen name Hu Qian). The first and last film of the novelist-turned-director Hu who committed suicide soon after finishing his film on 12 October 2017 at the age of 29, it is based on a story with

title: How Long, How Long Blues

text: in modern performances. Most versions begin with the lyric "How long, how long, has that evening train been gone?" "How Long, How Long Blues" became an early blues standard and "its lilting melody inspired hundreds of later compositions", including the Mississippi Sheiks' "Sitting on Top of the World" and Robert Johnson's "Come On in My Kitchen". Although his later style would not suggest it, Muddy Waters recalled that it was the first song he learned to play "off the Leroy Carr record". In 1988, Carr's "How Long, How Long Blues" was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in the

title: Blind men and an elephant

text: be not telling the truth and come to blows. The stories also differ primarily in how the elephant's body parts are described, how violent the conflict becomes and how (or if) the conflict among the men and their perspectives is resolved. In some versions, they stop talking, start listening and collaborate to "see" the full elephant. In another, a sighted man enters the parable and describes the entire elephant from various perspectives, the blind men then learn that they were all partially correct and partially wrong. While one's subjective experience is true, it may not be the totality of truth.

title: Electrocuting an Elephant

text: Electrocuting an Elephant Electrocuting an Elephant (also known as Electrocution of an Elephant) is a 1903 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film of the killing of the elephant Topsy by electrocution at a Coney Island amusement park. It was produced by the Edison film company (part of the Edison Manufacturing Company) and is believed to have been shot by Edwin S. Porter or Jacob Blair Smith. This film documents the publicly announced January 4, 1903 killing of Topsy the elephant at the unfinished Luna Park on Coney island. The elephant had recently been acquired from Forepaugh Circus, where she had

title: How Long, How Long Blues

text: his vocals have also been described as emotionally detached, high-pitched and smooth, with clear diction. Blackwell's single-string jazz guitar lines provided the role of a responsorial voice as well as rhythmic chording. "How Long, How Long Blues" was Carr and Scrapwell's biggest hit. They subsequently recorded six more versions of the song (two of them, unissued at the time), as "How Long, How Long Blues, Part 2", "Part 3", "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", "New How Long, How Long Blues", etc. There are considerable variations in the lyrics, many of which have since fallen out of use

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: I have been important enough for this to happen to me." Only with the expectation of a killing do the locals find him "momentarily worth watching." He describes how, as a police officer, he was often a target for mockery from the locals, as was any European who provided an easy target. In contrast to his description of the natives as "little beasts", the narrator labels the elephant as a "great beast", suggesting he holds it in higher esteem than the locals. This is somewhat paradoxical, however, as the narrator's own job is demeaning and forces him to see "the

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: goes to the town where the elephant has been seen. Entering one of the poorest quarters, he receives conflicting reports and contemplates leaving, thinking the incident is a hoax. The narrator then sees a village woman chasing away children who are looking at the corpse of an Indian whom the elephant has trampled and killed. He sends an order to bring an elephant rifle and, followed by a group of roughly a few thousand people, heads toward the paddy field where the elephant has rested in its tracks. Although he does not want to kill the elephant now that it

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: Shooting an Elephant "Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by English writer George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine "New Writing" in late 1936 and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948. The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death. The story is regarded as a metaphor for British imperialism, and

title: How Come, How Long

text: awarded to "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy (Sean Combs) featuring Faith Evans and 112. It also was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, losing to "Got 'til It's Gone" by Janet Jackson. The following people contributed to "How Come, How Long": How Come, How Long "How Come, How Long" is a song written, produced and performed by Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds). It was released as the third single from his album "The Day". It is a duet with American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder. The lyrics deal with physical abuse, regarding a woman killed by her

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: questioned Orwell's wife, Sonia Brownell, she replied, "Of course he shot a fucking a [sic] elephant. He said he did. Why do you always doubt his word!" Shooting an Elephant "Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by English writer George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine "New Writing" in late 1936 and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948. The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: comprehending he "had got to shoot the elephant"—illustrates an inherent problem of hegemony: "when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys." By enforcing the strict British rule, he is forfeiting his freedom while concurrently oppressing the Burmese. The narrator's situation throughout the essay is one of little prospect or prominence. He comments on how, even though he is of the ruling class, he finds himself either largely ignored by the Burmese people or hated. He remarks in the first sentence, "I was hated by large numbers of people—the only time in my life that

title: Elephant Parade

text: Wouw. The elephants were auctioned by Christie’s in November 2009. The best-selling elephant was by Corneille, a well known Dutch painter of the COBRA group, and was sold for €42,000. The BaarsFant by Menno Baars was sold for €30,000. Only a few weeks after the auction, Baars designed a second elephant, named BabyBelly. This time, however, he painted the elephant during a live session at the Kalvertoren, a shopping mall in the Kalverstraat, a famous shopping street in Amsterdam. BabyBelly is a smaller art elephant and is pregnant, depicting the conservation of its species. In 2010, UK conservation charity, Elephant

title: How Come, How Long

text: How Come, How Long "How Come, How Long" is a song written, produced and performed by Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds). It was released as the third single from his album "The Day". It is a duet with American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder. The lyrics deal with physical abuse, regarding a woman killed by her husband after tremendous physical abuse. This release met with mixed reaction by critics and did not chart on any major charts in United States, finding a better chart performance in United Kingdom, where it became a top ten hit for the performers. This song was nominated twice for

title: Bart Gets an Elephant

text: give them a choice: either arrange for delivery of the elephant, or lose their jobs. They decide on the former option. Bart names his new elephant Stampy and ties him to a post in the backyard. Lisa begins complaining that keeping an elephant as a pet is cruel, while Homer is concerned that Stampy will eat him out of house and home. In an effort to offset food costs, Bart and Homer exhibit Stampy by charging customers to pet and ride him, but they fail to make enough money to cover the elephant's food costs for one day. Homer and

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: it is his duty to appear resolute, with his word being final. Although it is not the narrator's wish to shoot the elephant, and even though he holds a weapon far beyond the technological capabilities of the natives, his will is not his own and, due to their expectation, he realises that he must shoot the elephant; "I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind." Reflectively, the narrator realises that being forced to impose strict laws and to shoot the elephant—he states his feelings against the act, but submits after

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: life for centuries...the rare and revered white elephant, is believed in Buddhist legend to be a symbol of purity and power." By the time Orwell moved to Moulmein, in 1926, "...he was most probably ambivalent about the colonial state of which he was a part. The Kipling-inspired romance of the Raj had been worn thin by the daily realities of his job in which...he witnessed 'the dirty work of Empire at close quarters'." Orwell writes how he was trapped between his own resentment towards the Empire and the Burmese people's resentment towards him. As a member of the ruling power,

title: War elephant

text: into the 19th century. An elephant trainer, rider, or keeper is called a mahout. Mahouts were responsible for capturing and handling elephants. To accomplish this, they utilize metal chains and a specialized hook called an aṅkuśa or 'elephant goad'. According to Chanakya as recorded in the Arthashastra, first the mahout would have to get the elephant used to being led. The elephant would have learn how to raise its legs to help a rider climb on. Then the elephants were taught to run and maneuver around obstacles, and move in formation. These elephants would be fit to learn how to

title: Bart Gets an Elephant

text: Marge decide that their house is unsuitable for an elephant to live in, and that Stampy is way too expensive to maintain as a pet, and tell the children the elephant must go. The family is visited by a representative of a game reserve, who says their acres of open land similar to African Savannah would be a good habitat for the elephant to live in, but Homer turns them down when they will not give him any money since the reserve itself is a nonprofit organization. However, as the family is pondering what to do about Stampy, a wildlife

title: Pregnant patients' rights

text: tasks and how long she shouldn't work in her job for. An example for proving these would be with a medical certificate. In the circumstances where there is no safer jobs to offer the women can take no safe jobs leave. The employee takes paid leave if she is entitled to unpaid parental leave and unpaid leave if she is not. Discrimination in the workforce against pregnant women is illegal. This means that she can not be fired, lose hours, demoted and treated differently because of her pregnancy. In Australia the laws on termination change between each state and territory.

title: Electrocuting an Elephant

text: a reputation as a "bad" elephant, having killed a drunken spectator the previous year who burnt the tip of her trunk with a lit cigar. After several incidents at Luna Park (sometimes attributed to the actions of her handler, William "Whitey" Alt) the owners of Luna Park, Frederick Thompson and Elmer Dundy, claimed they could no longer handle the elephant and announced they would hang Topsy in a public spectacle and charge admission. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals stepped in, questioning the idea of hanging an elephant as well as making a public spectacle out

title: Blind men and an elephant

text: Blind men and an elephant The parable of the blind men and an elephant originated in the ancient Indian subcontinent, from where it has been widely diffused. However the meaning of the popular proverb differs in other countries. It is a story of a group of blind men, who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and conceptualize what the elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant's body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the elephant based on their limited

title: Blind men and an elephant

title: Electrocuting an Elephant

text: view the film on a hand cranked mutoscope while surrounded by hanging chains and standing on a copper plate. In recent years portions of "Electrocuting an Elephant" have also appeared in movies, music videos, TV shows, and video games. In popular culture Thompson and Dundy's execution of Topsy has switched attribution, with claims the film depicts an anti-alternating current demonstration organized by Thomas A. Edison during the War of Currents. Historians point out that Edison was never at Luna Park and the electrocution of Topsy took place 10 years after the War of Currents. Electrocuting an Elephant Electrocuting an Elephant

title: Blind men and an elephant

text: has the blind men of the capital brought to the palace, where an elephant is brought in and they are asked to describe it. When the blind men had each felt a part of the elephant, the king went to each of them and said to each: 'Well, blind man, have you seen the elephant? Tell me, what sort of thing is an elephant?' The men assert the elephant is either like a pot (the blind man who felt the elephant's head), a winnowing basket (ear), a plowshare (tusk), a plow (trunk), a granary (body), a pillar (foot), a mortar

title: How Long, How Long Blues

text: been noted that "How Long, How Long Blues" "enjoyed such immense popularity that it as seized upon by numerous blues singers and jazz artists, its impact spreading way beyond the boundaries of the purely black community". Some of these artists include Pigmeat Markham, who recorded the song for Blue Note Records in 1945 with Oliver "Rev" Mesheux's sextet; James Crutchfield, who recorded the song in 1955 (released on the 2000 CD "Biddle Street Barrelhousin"'); Lonnie Donegan (1956, "Lonnie Donegan Showcase"); Big Joe Turner (1956, "The Boss of the Blues"); Johnnie Ray (1956, "The Big Beat"); Lou Rawls (1962, "Black and

title: Bart Gets an Elephant

text: Bart Gets an Elephant "Bart Gets an Elephant" is the seventeenth episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 31, 1994. In this episode, Bart wins a radio contest and is awarded a full-grown African elephant that he names Stampy. After Stampy wrecks the Simpsons' house and eats all the food, Homer decides to sell Stampy to an ivory dealer. Bart runs away with Stampy to save his pet, but the family finds the two at a museum exhibit, where Homer sinks into a tar pit. Homer is saved

title: An Elephant Sitting Still

text: An Elephant Sitting Still An Elephant Sitting Still () is a 2018 Chinese film written, directed and edited by Hu Bo (also known by his pen name Hu Qian). The first and last film of the novelist-turned-director Hu who committed suicide soon after finishing his film on 12 October 2017 at the age of 29, it is based on a story with the same title from his 2017 novel "Huge Crack". It made its world premiere in the Forum section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. An Elephant Sitting Still is being released in United Kingdom on December 14th.

title: Elephant joke

text: is solved by a well-known item that can be reasonably determined from the riddle, with the elephant joke parody: The absurdity of an elephant wearing a nun costume makes it nearly impossible for anyone not familiar with the punchline to independently think of the parody answer. Ignoring how unlikely one is to ever encounter an elephant dressed as a nun, then the answer is somewhat appropriate. A nun costume "would" likely be both "black and white" and a sunburn "would" cause an elephant to be, somewhat, "red all over". Humor arises from the irony of ignoring the expected answer for

title: Blind men and an elephant

text: concluded that "An elephant is soft and mushy." An elephant joke inverts the story in the following way: Six blind elephants were discussing what men were like. After arguing they decided to find one and determine what it was like by direct experience. The first blind elephant felt the man and declared, 'Men are flat.' After the other blind elephants felt the man, they agreed. Moral: "Touching the Elephant" was a 1997 BBC Radio 4 documentary in which four people of varying ages, all blind from birth, were brought to London Zoo to touch an elephant and describe their response.

title: Bart Gets an Elephant

text: the week it aired. During cleaning day at the Simpsons' house, Bart wins a KBBL radio contest after the station's DJs, Bill and Marty, call him up. They give Bart the choice of two prizes: $10,000 in cash or a full-grown African elephant. Bart chooses the elephant. This surprises Bill and Marty, who believed that nobody would ever choose an elephant, and thus have no elephant to give away. They offer Bart a variety of other prizes, all of which he refuses. Word spreads throughout town about Bill and Marty's refusal to give Bart an elephant, prompting their boss to

title: Electrocuting an Elephant

text: of the death of an animal. Thompson and Dundy cut the event back to invited guest and press only and agreed to use a surer method of strangling the elephant with large ropes tied to a steam powered winch. They also agreed they would use poison and electricity as well. The 74 second film opens with a standard Edison Studios credit screen "ELECTROCUTING AN ELEPHANT" "Thomas A. Edison" and then cuts to Topsy being led past a crowd of people through an unfinished Luna Park to the execution spot, an island in the middle of a "lagoon" used for boat-rides,

title: An Elephant in My Kitchen

text: An Elephant in My Kitchen An Elephant in my Kitchen, published in July 2018 by Pan Macmillan in London, is the first book written by South African author and conservationist Francoise Malby-Anthony-Anthony along with author Katja Willemsen. The story is told out of the eyes of Francoise Malby-Anthony who continued to manage Thula Thula Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu Natal South Africa after Lawrence Anthony's death in 2012, and is considered the sequel of The Elephant Whisperer published by Lawrence Anthony in 2009. The book has been the number one bestseller in South Africa for a number of weeks in

title: Blind men and an elephant

text: it is showing people how stupid mankind can be. Some say it is anti-scholastic. Others that it is just a tale copied by Rumi from Sanai – and so on. Shah adapted the tale in his book "The Dermis Probe". This version begins with a conference of scientists, from different fields of expertise, presenting their conflicting conclusions on the material upon which a camera is focused. As the camera slowly zooms out it gradually becomes clear that the material under examination is the hide of an African elephant. The words 'The Parts Are Greater Than The Whole' then appear on

title: An Elephant Called Slowly

text: tame, dramatically uneventful affair, nowhere near as finished or forceful as "Born Free". Frail and even rambling in structure, the picture edges purposefully into the wilds for some magnificently authentic animal footage...The only jolt, handled discreetly, is the sight of some jungle wild dogs finishing off a gazelle." An Elephant Called Slowly An Elephant Called Slowly is a 1969 Morning Star Productions Ltd. feature film starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna as themselves in a story about the couple's real-life adventures with three young African elephants while house-sitting in Kenya. George Adamson (of "Born Free"), makes an appearance as himself.

title: Elephant Moraine

text: an elephant." Several United States Antarctic Research Program field parties led by Cassidy successfully searched for meteorites at this moraine from the 1979–80 southern summer season. The descriptive name was approved by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1989. Elephant Moraine Elephant Moraine () is an isolated moraine, long, located west of Reckling Peak, to the west of the head of Mawson Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The moraine, described in some reports as an ice core moraine, is situated along a long, narrow patch of bare ice that extends west from Reckling Peak for . The feature was

title: Execution by elephant

text: common mode of execution in those days to have the offender trampled underfoot by an elephant." Captain Alexander Hamilton, writing in 1727, described how the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan ordered an offending military commander to be carried "to the Elephant Garden, and there to be executed by an Elephant, which is reckoned to be a shameful and terrible Death". The Mughal Emperor Humayun ordered the crushing by elephant of an imam he mistakenly believed to be critical of his reign. Some monarchs also adopted this form of execution for their own entertainment. Another Mughal ruler, the emperor Jahangir, is said

title: Blind men and an elephant

text: is one, though wise men speak of it variously." According to Paul J. Griffiths, this premise is the foundation of universalist perspective behind the parable of the blind men and an elephant. The hymn asserts that the same reality is subject to interpretations and described in various ways by the wise. In the oldest version, four blind men walk into a forest where they meet an elephant. In this version, they do not fight with each other, but conclude that they each must have perceived a different beast although they experienced the same elephant. The expanded version of the parable

title: Seeing the elephant

text: discussed the elephant in terms of their excitement for the outcome of their upcoming journey. They had their eyes on the destination and not always the 2,000 miles that lay between them and their dreamland. The elephant is in many ways a pachyderm of psychological proportions. How the pioneers described him was directly related to how they were feeling. The elephant phrase was early on meant as a good thing, but because it was used in conjunction with an experience that did not turn out as most hoped, the term evolved into a slightly more negative connotation after the Overland

title: Elephant racing

text: Elephant racing Elephant racing, though unusual as a sporting event, is held in many parts of the world but mostly in Asia. The earliest known such racing event as a tradition is reported from Vietnam. In the 20th century this became a major event (though it generated protests) in Germany in 1920, and an organized International Elephant Race in Nepal from tourism interests in 1982. Elephant racing, which is a more complex form of racing among animals is now a rage in Afghanistan also. A straight and long trunk is an important factor in the race for the elephants to

title: The Magician's Elephant

text: Magician's Elephant" into a film with the help of director Martin Hynes. The Magician's Elephant The Magician's Elephant is the thirteenth book written by American author Kate Dicamillo. It was released on September 8, 2009. The young orphan Peter Augustus Duchene has many questions, but there is one he wishes most answered: "Is his sister still alive? And if so, how can he find her?" The answer he finds from the fortuneteller in the market square of the city of Baltese is one he has to learn to believe. "An elephant! An elephant will lead him there!" A recurring theme

title: Pregnant with Success

text: Pregnant with Success Pregnant with Success is a studio album by American rapper Junglepussy. It was released on November 17, 2015. It is a follow-up to her 2014 mixtape, "Satisfaction Guaranteed". The production was handled by Shy Guy, Cousin Gabriel, Matt Parad, and Dubbel Dutch. Junglepussy described it as "an ode to my mother, to all mothers, to anyone who's ever planted a seed, to anyone who's ever created something, to anyone who's ever waited patiently for something to come into fruition." Anupa Mistry of "Pitchfork" gave the album a 7.5 out of 10, calling it "another reminder of how

title: How Long Gone

text: and clocks with their hands turning quickly. At the end, the duo fades away, and the house appears to have rotted out, and the pages on the calendar that was flipping throughout the video are all gone. "How Long Gone" debuted at number 70 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of June 29, 1998. How Long Gone "How Long Gone" is a song written by Shawn Camp and John Scott Sherrill and recorded by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It was released in June 1998 as the second single from their 1998

title: An Elephant Called Slowly

text: An Elephant Called Slowly An Elephant Called Slowly is a 1969 Morning Star Productions Ltd. feature film starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna as themselves in a story about the couple's real-life adventures with three young African elephants while house-sitting in Kenya. George Adamson (of "Born Free"), makes an appearance as himself. The soundtrack features several well-known musical numbers by Bert Kaempfert. The film was written by Travers and director James Hill, and has been released to VHS and DVD. The film begins with Travers and McKenna leaving their home in England to caretake a house in Africa belonging to

title: How Love is Spelt

text: How Love is Spelt How Love is Spelt is a 2005 play written by Chloe Moss. It was first produced at the Bush Theatre in London and is available in print from Nick Hern Books. The play was revived in November 2006 at the Space in London's Docklands by 'Built-Up'. The cast included Mark Aidan, Katie Beswick, Kaijah McMahon, Debra Baker and Martin Mulgrew. The production was directed by Alex Wheeler. It tells the story of Peta, who has escaped from Liverpool to London after discovering that she is pregnant. The play all takes place in Peta's London flat and

title: Blind men and an elephant

text: Persian Sufi poet Sanai of Ghazni (currently, Afghanistan) presented this teaching story in his "The Walled Garden of Truth". Rumi, the 13th Century Persian poet and teacher of Sufism, included it in his Masnavi. In his retelling, "The Elephant in the Dark", some Hindus bring an elephant to be exhibited in a dark room. A number of men touch and feel the elephant in the dark and, depending upon where they touch it, they believe the elephant to be like a water spout (trunk), a fan (ear), a pillar (leg) and a throne (back). Rumi uses this story as an

title: Bart Gets an Elephant

text: thought the episode managed to "easily overcome its possible flaws" to turn into a "very fine program". Homer's line "Marge, I agree with you in theory. In theory, communism works — "In theory"" was Jacobson's favorite of the episode. Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict gave the episode a grade of A, and Bill Gibron of DVD Talk gave it a score of 4 out of 5. Bart Gets an Elephant "Bart Gets an Elephant" is the seventeenth episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 31, 1994. In this

title: Blind Elephant

text: Blind Elephant Blind Elephant is the second studio album by Gemstones. Malaco Records alongside Xist Music released the album on May 5, 2015. He worked with J.R., RavO (Raven-Tiffany Alishia McGriff), and Stanley Meeks. Awarding the album three and a half stars from New Release Today, Kevin McNeese states, ""Blind Elephant" is an album that fans have waited a long time for. While lyrically he didn't disappoint, I definitely think the mixing and production could have been better." Richard Spadine, giving the album three stars at Rapzilla, writes, "Contrary to the hype, "Blind Elephant" is simply a good album. Not

title: Elephant Spit

text: Elephant Spit Elephant Spit is a 9 km long sand spit at the eastern end of subantarctic Heard Island, in the Australian territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, lying in the Southern Ocean on the Kerguelen Plateau about 450 km south-east of the Kerguelen Islands. The name refers to southern elephant seals, also known as sea elephants, which breed in large numbers on Heard Island and formed the basis for commercial sealing for oil there during the 19th century. Elephant Spit is long, thin, straight and conspicuous, giving the island a distinctive shape as seen from space. It borders

title: The Magician's Elephant

text: The Magician's Elephant The Magician's Elephant is the thirteenth book written by American author Kate Dicamillo. It was released on September 8, 2009. The young orphan Peter Augustus Duchene has many questions, but there is one he wishes most answered: "Is his sister still alive? And if so, how can he find her?" The answer he finds from the fortuneteller in the market square of the city of Baltese is one he has to learn to believe. "An elephant! An elephant will lead him there!" A recurring theme in the book is "coming of age." Fox plans to adapt "The

title: Searching for the Elephant

text: São Paulo International Film Festival. "Searching for the Elephant" landed on Korean critics' lists as one of the most underrated movies of 2009. The writer director S. K. Jhung of "Searching for the Elephant" was nominated for Grand Prix at the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2009. Searching for the Elephant Searching for the Elephant (; lit. "Penthouse Elephant") is a 2009 South Korean psychological thriller written, directed and produced by S.K. Jhung (a.k.a. Jhung Seung-koo). It stars Jang Hyuk, Jo Dong-hyuk and Lee Sang-woo as three male friends who deal with sex addiction, anxiety and other contemporary disorders. It

title: An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig

text: and $4.95 for a permanent copy. It was one of the first experiments with making television videos available for Internet download, making "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" one of the first of any television episode made legally available on the Internet. An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American animated television series "South Park". It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on September 10, 1997. In the episode, the boys of South Park try to force Kyle's pet

title: Blind Elephant

text: a magnum opus, but an impressive, if uneven effort from an artist still in the process of defining himself." Blind Elephant Blind Elephant is the second studio album by Gemstones. Malaco Records alongside Xist Music released the album on May 5, 2015. He worked with J.R., RavO (Raven-Tiffany Alishia McGriff), and Stanley Meeks. Awarding the album three and a half stars from New Release Today, Kevin McNeese states, ""Blind Elephant" is an album that fans have waited a long time for. While lyrically he didn't disappoint, I definitely think the mixing and production could have been better." Richard Spadine, giving

title: International Elephant Foundation

text: International Elephant Foundation The International Elephant Foundation (IEF) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Formed by individuals and institutions, IEF is dedicated to the conservation of African and Asian elephants worldwide. In 1998, Executive Director of Fort Worth Zoo Michael Fouraker envisioned an elephant foundation to provide funds and expertise to elephant related projects. Michael was a board member of International Rhino Foundation (IRF), and used the organizational structure and business plan of IRF as a template for multiple elephant holding facilities with diverse missions to come together for a shared common goal of contributing to the long-term preservation of elephants.

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: seems peaceful, the narrator feels pressured by the demand of the crowd for the act to be carried out. After inquiring as to the elephant's behavior and delaying for some time, he shoots the elephant several times, wounding it but unable to kill it. The narrator then leaves the beast, unable to be in its presence as it continues to suffer. He later learns that it was stripped, nearly to the bone, within hours. His elderly colleagues agree that killing the elephant was the best thing to do, but the younger ones believe that it was worth more than the

title: Elephant Moraine

text: Elephant Moraine Elephant Moraine () is an isolated moraine, long, located west of Reckling Peak, to the west of the head of Mawson Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The moraine, described in some reports as an ice core moraine, is situated along a long, narrow patch of bare ice that extends west from Reckling Peak for . The feature was noted in U.S. satellite imagery of 1973, and in aerial photographs obtained subsequently, by William R. MacDonald of the United States Geological Survey, who originally described it to William A. Cassidy as "a possible nunatak having an outline similar to

title: Center for Elephant Conservation

text: live up to 65 or 70 years. Center for Elephant Conservation The Center for Elephant Conservation (CEC) is a breeding farm and retirement facility for elephants in Polk City, Florida, opened in 1995. The CEC is solely sponsored by Feld Entertainment, the holding company which operated the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from the 1960s until 2017. The CEC is the largest Asian elephant gene pool outside of the Indian Subcontinent since traditional zoos usually have, on average, only a handful of elephants. Parent company Feld Entertainment publicizes the facility as a gathering place for researchers of elephant

title: Center for Elephant Conservation

text: Center for Elephant Conservation The Center for Elephant Conservation (CEC) is a breeding farm and retirement facility for elephants in Polk City, Florida, opened in 1995. The CEC is solely sponsored by Feld Entertainment, the holding company which operated the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from the 1960s until 2017. The CEC is the largest Asian elephant gene pool outside of the Indian Subcontinent since traditional zoos usually have, on average, only a handful of elephants. Parent company Feld Entertainment publicizes the facility as a gathering place for researchers of elephant behavior and conservation. The center loans both

title: Elephant Gun (EP)

text: Elephant Gun (EP) Elephant Gun is an EP by Beirut, released in 2007. The title track was originally released on Lon Gisland. Track 3 was recorded during a KEXP Radio Session live at the Austin City Limits on March 16, 2007. Released by 4AD Records, on June 25, 2007, Catalog Number AD 2729. Also available on promo CD, with a full-art cardboard slip-case. Artwork for both by Jon Wozencroft. A music video was made for the track "Elephant Gun." The video was directed by Alma Har'el. On working with Zach Condon, Har’el writes, “That sound is how I feel when

title: Elephant Elephant

text: Elephant Elephant The Elephant Elephant EP is the debut release by Evelyn Evelyn. It was first sold to the public on September 13, 2007 and consists of a 3-song 7" single and a 6-track "bonus" CD (as well as a sticker of a conjoined elephant). The vinyl has full fidelity, while the online/streaming and CD versions of the songs have been run through computer filters to create the sound of an old-time radio transcription. However, the song "Elephant Elephant" is the same on in all variations. "Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?" appears online and as part of "Goodnight Evelyn"

title: The Pregnant Widow

text: The Pregnant Widow The Pregnant Widow is a novel by the English writer Martin Amis, published by Jonathan Cape on 4 February 2010. Its theme is the feminist revolution, which Amis sees as incomplete and bewildering for women, echoing the view of the 19th-century Russian writer, Alexander Herzen, that revolution is "a long night of chaos and desolation". The "pregnant widow", a phrase taken from Herzen's "From the other shore" (1848–1850), is the point at which the old order has given way, the new one not yet born. Amis said in 2007 that "consciousness is not revolutionised by the snap

title: An Elephant in My Kitchen

text: 2018, and has been launched in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India. The book is launched in Canada and the United States in November 2018. An Elephant in My Kitchen An Elephant in my Kitchen, published in July 2018 by Pan Macmillan in London, is the first book written by South African author and conservationist Francoise Malby-Anthony-Anthony along with author Katja Willemsen. The story is told out of the eyes of Francoise Malby-Anthony who continued to manage Thula Thula Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu Natal South Africa after Lawrence Anthony's death in 2012, and is considered the sequel of

title: Searching for the Elephant

text: Searching for the Elephant Searching for the Elephant (; lit. "Penthouse Elephant") is a 2009 South Korean psychological thriller written, directed and produced by S.K. Jhung (a.k.a. Jhung Seung-koo). It stars Jang Hyuk, Jo Dong-hyuk and Lee Sang-woo as three male friends who deal with sex addiction, anxiety and other contemporary disorders. It was the last onscreen appearance by Jang Ja-yeon, who committed suicide before the film's release. Freelance photographer Hyun-woo has a successful career and seems to be living an enviable life. But he's been suffering from depression since his ex-girlfriend Ma-ri left him, and begins to have trouble

title: Checkered elephant shrew

text: a territory of a few acres. The checkered elephant shrew is primarily an insectivore, eating termites, ants, beetles and centipedes. It also will eat mollusks, eggs and small mammals, amphibians and birds. Checkered elephant shrew The checkered elephant shrew or checkered sengi ("Rhynchocyon cirnei") is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. Checked elephant shrews will grow to be around 25 - 30 centimeters long, excluding their tail, making them one of the longest elephant shrews. Their average tail length is slightly over 25 centimeters, which is slightly shorter than their body length. They commonly way around half

title: Elephant

text: Elephant The elephants are the large mammals forming the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea. Three species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant ("Loxodonta africana"), the African forest elephant ("L. cyclotis"), and the Asian elephant ("Elephas maximus"). Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Elephantidae is the only surviving family of the order Proboscidea; other, now extinct, members of the order include deinotheres, gomphotheres, mammoths, and mastodons. All elephants have several distinctive features, the most notable of which is a long trunk (also called a proboscis), used for many purposes, particularly breathing, lifting water, and

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: for Orwell's view that "when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys." Orwell spent some of his life in Burma in a position akin to that of the narrator, but the degree to which his account is autobiographical is disputed, with no conclusive evidence to prove it to be fact or fiction. After Orwell's death in 1950, the essay was republished several times, including in "Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" (1950), "Inside the Whale and Other Essays" (1957), and "Selected Writings" (1958). Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1823–1886), during

title: An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig

text: An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American animated television series "South Park". It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on September 10, 1997. In the episode, the boys of South Park try to force Kyle's pet elephant to crossbreed with Cartman's pet pig for a class project on genetic engineering. Meanwhile, Stan tries to deal with his sister Shelley, who keeps beating him up. The episode was written by series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone along with Dan

title: Pygmy elephant

text: the Cretan pygmy elephant ("Elephas creticus"). Pygmy elephant Pygmy elephants live in both Africa and Asia. The African pygmy elephant, formerly described as ""Loxodonta pumilio"", is currently considered to be a tiny morph of the African forest elephant ("L. cyclotis"). The Borneo elephant ("Elephas maximus borneensis"), a well-documented variety of elephant, is also called "pygmy elephant." This elephant, inhabiting tropical rainforest in north Borneo (east Sabah and extreme north Kalimantan), was long thought to be identical to the Asian elephant and descended from a captive population. In 2003, DNA comparison revealed them to be probably a new subspecies. The term

title: Pygmy elephant

text: Pygmy elephant Pygmy elephants live in both Africa and Asia. The African pygmy elephant, formerly described as ""Loxodonta pumilio"", is currently considered to be a tiny morph of the African forest elephant ("L. cyclotis"). The Borneo elephant ("Elephas maximus borneensis"), a well-documented variety of elephant, is also called "pygmy elephant." This elephant, inhabiting tropical rainforest in north Borneo (east Sabah and extreme north Kalimantan), was long thought to be identical to the Asian elephant and descended from a captive population. In 2003, DNA comparison revealed them to be probably a new subspecies. The term "pygmy elephant" should not be confused

title: How Long Will You Live?

text: titled "How Long Will You Live? Revisited". One of these was a priest. The third series contained ten episodes. Two couples featured in series three, meaning that twelve unhealthy individuals were featured overall. The third series saw the programme become more mulicultural by featuring an unhealthy individual who was originally from Nigeria and another unhealthy individual who was originally from a small village in southern India. How Long Will You Live? How Long Will You Live? is a television series broadcast on RTÉ One. Presented by Mark Hamilton, each week Hamilton examines a different individual with an unhealthy lifestyle, estimates

title: Elephant-built bridge

text: native personnel involved, and the elephants, were, before the arrival of Japanese forces, largely engaged in the logging of teak for export. The British soldier James Howard "Elephant Bill" Williams, who oversaw the evacuation, had worked in the Burma teak trade; the success of the operation is said to have hinged on his long-standing personal relationship with one particularly large elephant. Elephant-built bridge An elephant bridge, in the sense of a bridge built largely by elephants working under skilled human supervision, is a bridge whose structure consists primarily of logs, that are both carried to the site and put in

title: Elephant Parts

text: in 1981, Nesmith recorded an esoteric commentary track which did not describe the content of the video. Later, Nesmith recorded a new commentary track which does describe the content, included as part of a DVD version released in 2003. The Canadian band The Tragically Hip took its name from the eponymous sketch in "Elephant Parts". Elephant Parts Elephant Parts is a collection of comedy skits and music videos made in 1981 by Michael Nesmith, formerly of The Monkees. Nesmith produced the video through his company Pacific Arts. "Elephant Parts" is one hour long with parody commercials and comedy sketches, and

title: Patara Elephant Farm

text: health and behavior by caring for an elephant. These activities include feeding the elephant, checking its health, bathing it, learning how to communicate with it, and ride it. All visitors, including children and people with disabilities, are welcomed. Through these interactions, Patara hopes that visitors will develop a trusting relationship with their elephant. The program costs around $200 per person, and the groups are small, with a maximum of twelve visitors per day The program cost is needed since Patara does not receive any of its funding from the Thai government. When visitors first arrive at the farm, they are

title: Elephant

text: in both sexes. Elephants have long lifespans, reaching 60–70 years of age. Lin Wang, a captive male Asian elephant, lived for 86 years. Touching is an important form of communication among elephants. Individuals greet each other by stroking or wrapping their trunks; the latter also occurs during mild competition. Older elephants use trunk-slaps, kicks, and shoves to discipline younger ones. Individuals of any age and sex will touch each other's mouths, temporal glands, and genitals, particularly during meetings or when excited. This allows individuals to pick up chemical cues. Touching is especially important for mother–calf communication. When moving, elephant mothers

title: Bart Gets an Elephant

text: by Stampy, and so gives the elephant away to an animal refuge instead. The episode was written by John Swartzwelder, and directed by Jim Reardon. It introduced the fictional elephant Stampy, and marks the first appearance of the recurring character Cletus Spuckler. The episode features cultural references to the songs "Sixteen Tons" and "Do-Re-Mi", and the La Brea Tar Pits cluster of tar pits located in Hancock Park in Los Angeles, California. Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 10.7, and was the highest-rated show on the Fox network

title: Rufous elephant shrew

text: Rufous elephant shrew The rufous elephant shrew, rufous sengi or East African long-eared elephant-shrew ("Elephantulus rufescens") is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. Found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. "Elephantulus rufescens" occupies the drywood land and grassland zone of East Africa. "E. rufescens" exhibits no sexual dimorphism. The proboscis is long and flexible. The species' tails are dark-brown and can be long up to the its head-to-tail length.Both adults and juveniles are similar in color. The dorsal fur is of fine

title: How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension

text: of fractal-like objects in nature that look random rather than regular. For this he defines statistically self-similar figures and says that these are encountered in nature. The paper is important because it is a "turning point" in Mandelbrot's early thinking on fractals. It is an example of the linking of mathematical objects with natural forms that was a theme of much of his later work. How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension "How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension" is a paper by mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, first published in "Science"

title: Shooting an Elephant

text: short film by director Juan Pablo Rothie and Academy Award nominated writer Alec Sokolow. The film was shot entirely on location in Nepal starring Barry Sloane as Eric Blair. The degree to which the story is fiction has been disputed. In his biography of Orwell, "George Orwell: A Life", Bernard Crick cast doubt on the idea that Orwell himself actually shot an elephant. No independent account of Orwell's actions has been found and there was no official record of the incident, which was unusual considering the destruction of valuable property. Peter Davison, the editor of Orwell's "Complete Works", includes an

title: International Elephant Foundation

text: In November 1998, Michael invited nine representatives from zoos, private elephant facilities, circuses and a university to Fort Worth, Texas to discuss how a foundation could significantly enhance current conservation efforts. From this first organizational meeting the International Elephant Foundation was born. The IEF was incorporated in 1999. The mission of the IEF is to support and operate elephant conservation and education programs both in managed facilities and in the wild, with an emphasis on management, protection and scientific research. Our organization is recognized by, among others, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), the Morris Animal Foundation and the

title: Elephant racing

text: cross the finish line. The races take a longer time than those involving horses but the animals are clearly visible to every spectator. The Buon Don Elephant Races are held as a traditional event in the Central Highlands of the Buon Don district of Vietnam, which is well known for its elephant trainers. The skills of elephant trainers are used to perpetuate the heritage of holding elephant races every year during the third lunar month (generally in March) of the year. The race course, in the forests of the banks of the Sevepoi River, is a mile long track wide

title: Blind men and an elephant

text: that the elephant is a metaphor for God, and the various blind men represent religions that disagree on something no one has fully experienced. The story has been published in many books for adults and children, and interpreted in a variety of ways. The earliest versions of the parable of blind men and elephant is found in Buddhist, Hindu and Jain texts, as they discuss the limits of perception and the importance of complete context. The parable has several Indian variations, but broadly goes as follows: In some versions, the blind men then discover their disagreements, suspect the others to

title: International Elephant Foundation

text: wild elephants by planting elephant food plants in the existing elephant habitat, and planting natural barriers of thorny plants - Assam lemon and thorny bamboo - between the forest and fields to protect the cultivated areas. Habitat loss and degradation is a significant issue for Asian elephant in Cambodia and there has been few targeted conservation efforts. The short-term goals of this project are to collect critical information to enable a monitoring program to be established, to improve human-Asian elephant coexistence and to inform the development of a comprehensive Asian elephant national action plan for Cambodia. The long-term is to

title: Indian elephant

text: financial and technical support of wildlife management efforts by states for their free ranging populations of wild Asian Elephants. The project aims to ensure long-term survival of viable conservation reliant populations of elephants in their natural habitats by protecting the elephants, their habitats and migration corridors. Other goals of Project Elephant are supporting research of the ecology and management of elephants, creating conservation awareness among local people, providing improved veterinary care for captive elephants. Indian elephant The Indian elephant ("Elephas maximus indicus") is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant and native to mainland Asia. Since 1986, the

title: How Long Will You Live?

text: How Long Will You Live? How Long Will You Live? is a television series broadcast on RTÉ One. Presented by Mark Hamilton, each week Hamilton examines a different individual with an unhealthy lifestyle, estimates their lifespan and attempts to increase that lifespan by implementing his own techniques into a plan to improve that person's lifestyle. A fourth series began airing on 7 January 2009. The series is sponsored by Flora. The first series contained six episodes. The second series contained eight episodes. The eight unhealthy individuals were revisited before the fourth series and their progress was filmed for a series

title: Golden-rumped elephant shrew

text: Golden-rumped elephant shrew The golden-rumped elephant shrew ("Rhynchocyon chrysopygus") is a small African mammal. It is the largest species of the elephant shrew family. It is classified as endangered. The golden-rumped elephant shrew is found in the northern coastal areas in and around Arabuko Sokoke National Park Mombasa in Kenya. Its name derives from the conspicuous golden fur on its hindquarters, distinctive golden coloration on its rump, and grizzled gold forehead contrasting with its dark reddish-brown color. The golden-rumped elephant shrew has long muscular rear legs and shorter, less developed forelegs. Like other elephant shrews, this species has a long

title: Elephant shrew

text: Elephant shrew Elephant shrews, also called jumping shrews or sengis, are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the family Macroscelididae, in the order Macroscelidea. Their traditional common English name "elephant shrew" comes from a fancied resemblance between their long noses and the trunk of an elephant, and their superficial similarity with shrews (family Soricidae) in the order Eulipotyphla. However, phylogenetic analysis revealed that elephant shrews are not classified with true shrews, but are in fact more closely related to elephants than shrews. In 1997 the biologist Jonathan Kingdon proposed that they instead be called "sengis" (singular "sengi"), a

title: Four-toed elephant shrew

text: shrew has a long, pointed, flexible and sensitive snout, which it uses to hunt. It also has short forelimbs and long back limbs. The differences between the regular elephant shrew and the four-toed elephant shrew can be seen in facial features, body length and weight. Compared to the regular elephant shrew, which has small eyes and ears, a four-toed elephant shrew has broad, upstanding ears and large eyes. The elephant shrew generally varies in size from about . However, the body length of the four-toed elephant shrew is less variable, . Similarly, the tail length of the regular elephant shrew

title: Elephant cognition

text: on the truck were flashing red, white and yellow. When Ruby painted later on in the day, she chose those colors. She also showed a preference for colors that the keepers wore. Harry Peachey, an elephant trainer, developed a cooperative relationship with an elephant named Koko. Koko would help the keepers out, "prompting" them to encourage him with various commands and words that Koko would learn. Peachey stated that elephants are almost predisposed to cooperate and work with humans as long as they are treated with respect and sensitivity. Koko worked out when his keepers needed a bit of "elephant

title: Elephant Elephant

text: on the CD version. All of the other tracks are exclusive to their particular formats. "Love Will Tear Us Apart", "Elephant Elephant" and "Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?" appear on their self-titled 2010 debut album, and vocals are added to the instrumental tracks "Evelyn Evelyn Theme" and "Sandy's Theme" (retitled as Sandy Fishnets), all of which were re-recorded for the album. Side A Side B Elephant Elephant The Elephant Elephant EP is the debut release by Evelyn Evelyn. It was first sold to the public on September 13, 2007 and consists of a 3-song 7" single and a 6-track