Elephant ivory has been the most important source, but ivory from many species including the hippopotamus, walrus, pig, mammoth, sperm whale, and narwhal has been used.

This project has been designed to create awareness and raise vital funds for the protection of the critically endangered Asian Elephant.

An alternative tune is " Nellie the Elephant ", which has the same tempo.

This has produced a common misconception that neurofibromatosis and the " Elephant Man disease " are one and the same.

It has been reprinted by Elephant Editions ( 1985 ), Cambridge University Press ( 1995 ), Vanguard Press ( 1995 ), Freedom Press, AK Press ( 2007 ), and BiblioBazaar ( 2008 ).

London South Bank University ( LSBU ) at its principal Elephant and Castle site has over 23, 000 students and 1, 700 staff.

The University of the Arts London has two of its colleges in the borough-at Elephant and Castle is the London College of Communication and on Peckham Road is the Camberwell College of Arts.

Christopher Nicholson's character Tom Page in The Elephant Keeper identifies Pilgrim's Progress as being one of two books he has read ; the other being Gulliver's Travels.

" Elephant and Castle " has largely replaced the original name of the area — Newington.

Internationally, Surin has many well-known festivals, for instance, the Annual Grand Elephant Round Up, Eel Festival, and Buffalo Blessing Festival etc.

Vimes has also managed to evade, beat off and ' kill ' ( at least, temporarily disable ) werewolves ( in The Fifth Elephant ), part of a pack of werewolves in " the game "; a werewolf tradition of chasing a human back to civilization that humans did not often win, during a version organized by Angua's brother Wolfgang ; Wolfgang insists that the werewolves would just have " nasty headaches later on.

His role as Duke of Ankh largely involves diplomacy ( his visit to Überwald in The Fifth Elephant for example ), in fact, his rough and ready upbringing has given him some unexpected advantages in this field, ( he once, after a bad day at work, threatened to personally send an opposing diplomat " home in an ambulance ", an act that caused the man to order an immediate troop withdrawal ).

It is also shown that he is currently quite stuck on the study of poo, having read many books written by one Miss Felicity Beedle, whom he knows as " the poo lady ", and who has also written such books as Where's My Cow ?, The World of Poo, Melvin and the Enormous Boil, Geoffrey and the Magic Pillow Case and The Little Duckling Who Thought He Was an Elephant.

The African Elephant has always been regarded as a single species but, because of morphological and DNA differences, some scientists classify them into three subspecies.

A similar situation exists with the Asian Elephant, which has four distinct living sub-species.

The Borneo Elephant | Borneo elephant is smaller than other Asian elephant subspecies, and has relatively large ears, a longer tail, and straighter tusks.

Ankh-Morpork has given birth to the first newspaper, the Ankh-Morpork Times ( The Truth ), while the AM-based Grand Trunk Clacks Company established the first efficient international communication service ( The Fifth Elephant ).

It has been suggested that Vetinari may not be entirely human, though this is primarily because of his methods and personality, as opposed to any sort of physical proof ( although in The Fifth Elephant, Lady Margolotta was surprised at his lack of aging ).

In 1971, Ashley Montagu suggested in his book The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity that Joseph Merrick suffered Neurofibromatosis type 1, and this has continued to be reported.

The exhibit also has a dig site, with fossil parts of various dinosaurs, and dinosaur toys are available in the Elephant Museum.

But even there, many of the gags may require an understanding of Japanese culture and / or language to be fully appreciated ; for example, his infamous " Mr. Elephant " impression, while being transparently obvious as a physical gag, also has a deeper resonance with contemporary Japanese culture since it references the popular Japanese children's song " Zou-san " ( ぞうさん ).

Attractions include The Great Goofini and Dumbo the Flying Elephant, which was removed from its current location in Fantasyland on January 8, 2012 and an expanded duplication has been built here.

Brooks has also hosted several documentaries and served as narrator in such features as the IMAX film Africa's Elephant Kingdom.

Other famous Mackem musicians include punk rockers The Toy Dolls, who broke the top five of the charts with " Nellie the Elephant " in December 1984 ; the punk rock band Leatherface ; the lead singer of dance outfit Olive, Ruth Ann Boyle, who achieved a UK chart-topper with " You're Not Alone " in May 1997, and has gone on to work with fellow chart-toppers Enigma ; A Tribe of Toffs made number 21 with their cult hit " John Kettley is a Weatherman " in December 1988.

The most reputed clocks included the Elephant, Scribe and Castle clocks, all of which have been successfully reconstructed.

* the Order of the Elephant, which may have been first founded by Christian I of Denmark, but was founded in its current form by King Christian V in 1693

Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, was once considered to have been affected with neurofibromatosis type I.

After the war, when his father was demobilised, the family was rehoused by the council in Marshall Gardens at the Elephant and Castle in a pre-fabricated house made in Canada, as much of London's housing stock had been damaged during the Blitz in 1940-41.

According to his 2011 autobiography The Elephant to Hollywood, Caine had been signed to a seven-year contract by Joseph E. Levine, whose Embassy Films was distributing Zulu.

By then, Tom Norman's shop on Whitechapel Road had been closed, and the Elephant Man had moved on.

Since 1989 over 20 books have been created in the Elmer the Patchwork Elephant series by the British author David McKee.

At a performance Divine gave at the Hippodrome in the last year of his life, he appeared onstage riding an infant elephant, known as Bully the Elephant, who had been hired for the occasion.

London's growing Latino population, which have been largely residing in Elephant and Castle since the 80's, are also taking part in the regeneration project.

Elephant and Castle was to have been served by the Cross-River Tram scheme, which was cancelled in 2008 due to budgetary constraints.

Sappy Stanley is not a pre-existing cartoon character, having been created for the episode, but a parody of Terrytoons character Sidney the Elephant, a. k. a. " Silly Sidney ," whose cartoon Sidney's Family Tree was indeed nominated for an Academy Award the same year as Knighty Knight Bugs.

Mangum had headlined and curated the ATP event at Butlins Holiday Park, Minehead between March 9 and March 11 of 2012, other bands from the Elephant 6 collective have already been announced to support including Apples In Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control and The Music Tapes as well as other artists chosen by Jeff including Joanna Newsom and The Magnetic Fields.

When Question Mark attacks Bat-Duck and asks him " How can you tell if an elephant's been in your bed ," Bat-Duck asks " African Elephant or Indian " which Question Mark quotes " Gee, I don't know.

Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Elephant, after the elephant.

Similarly, the Elephant Refuge and Education Centre ( EREC ) run by the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, provides a refuge for elephants who have been rescued after decades of backbreaking work-formerly in the logging industry, but more recently in the tourist industry, working in camps and begging on the streets.

Started in 2007, funds raised have been used for the conservation of Sumatran Orangutan, Sumatran Tiger, Sumatran Elephant, African Painted Dog, Sun Bears, Tree Kangaroos, Javan Gibbons and Australian native species.

Pepper has a long history in Cambodia, having been grown since at least the 13th century, while the pungent, aromatic variety from Kampot province ( bordering Vietnam Ha Tien province on the east, the Gulf of Thailand to the south, and the jungle-clad Elephant Mountains to the north ) was once Cambodia's chief export from the late 1800s up till the 1960s.

Flint was briefly elevated to sergeant under the tenure of Acting-Captain Fred Colon ( promoted to run the watch during the temporary resignations of Carrot and Angua while Vimes, Littlebottom and Detritus were serving as ambassadors to Uberwald in The Fifth Elephant ), much to the annoyance of Nobby Nobbs, who had been obviously gunning for the promotion himself.