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  • 1elephant — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ African ▪ Asian, Indian ▪ bull, cow ▪ female, male ▪ …

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  • 2Elephant crushing — Elephant crushing, or a training crush is a supposed method by which wild elephants can be tamed for domestication, using restriction in a cage, sometimes with the use of corporal punishment or negative reinforcement. This practice is condemned… …

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  • 3Elephant Nature Park — is a sanctuary and rescue centre for elephants in the Northern Thailand, Chiang Mai Province, approximately 60km from Chiang Mai City. Founded in the 1990s, the project s aim is to provide sanctuary for distressed elephants from all over Thailand …

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  • 4Elephant — Taxobox name = Elephant image width = 250px image caption = An African Bush Elephant near the border of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata classis = Mammalia ordo …

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  • 5Elephant intelligence — Elephants are among the world s most intelligent animals. With a mass just over 5kg, elephant brains are larger than those of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twentyfold those of a typical elephant, whale… …

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  • 6elephant — n. 1) a rogue ( wild ) elephant 2) elephants trumpet 3) a herd of elephants 4) a young elephant is a calf 5) a female elephant is a cow 6) a male elephant is a bull * * * [ elɪfənt] a female elephant is a cow a herd of elephants a male elephant… …

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  • 7herd — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 group of animals ADJECTIVE ▪ great, huge, large, vast ▪ small ▪ entire, whole ▪ …

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  • 8herd — [[t]hɜ͟ː(r)d[/t]] herds, herding, herded 1) N COUNT: oft n N, N of n A herd is a large group of animals of one kind that live together. Chobe is also renowned for its large herds of elephant and buffalo. ...dairy herds. 2) N SING: the N… …

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  • 9elephant */ — UK [ˈelɪfənt] / US [ˈeləfənt] noun [countable] Word forms elephant : singular elephant plural elephants a very large wild animal that lives in Africa and Asia. It has thick grey skin and a very long nose called a trunk a herd (= large group) of… …

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  • 10elephant — el|e|phant [ eləfənt ] noun count * a very large wild animal that lives in Africa and Asia. It has thick gray skin and a very long nose called a trunk: a herd (=large group) of African elephants …

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