Debra Carnahan Cincinnati, OH Silk painting from Rajasthan, India. Lucy the Elephant American photographer Andrew Stern presents a photo essay about Lucy, a large and cavernous elephant. Elephanteria An exhaustive, well-organized site. In places, it taps the poetry of humanity's relationship with the elephant. This site includes biographies of its individual residents.
Elephants have opposable thumbs.
Mostly because they are bored. When they stand still in chains often, they develop this as a bad habit. They also becomes a bit dizzy, and are often in a mood of half sleeping during this movement. It seems, eventually, as if the behavior origins in the fact, that stimulation of the footpads stimulates that reverse backflow of the blood in the feet, through the veins back to the heart. They are as much as crazy as we, when we walk back and forth, waiting for the bus a chilly day.