A modern example of this is the gender segregation of elephants where females and the young form family groups while lone males fight for the right to mate with all the females of the group.

Dugongs and elephants share a monophyletic group with hyraxes and the aardvark, one of the earliest offshoots of eutherians.

These proboscideans represent a totally distinct line of evolutionary descent to that of other elephants, one that probably diverged very early in the history of the group as a whole.

The large group to which elephants belong formerly contained several other related groups: besides the deinotheres there were the gomphotheres ( some of which had shovel-like lower front teeth ), and the mastodons.

The common ancestry of these animals, along with aardvarks, hyraxes, elephants, and sea cows in the group Afrotheria, was not recognized until the late 1990s.

A group of four female Asian elephants occupy an enclosure on the west side of the zoo.

Some keepers can become highly specialized such as those who concentrate on a specific group of animals like birds, great apes, elephants or reptiles.

Amebelodon is a member of a diverse group of primitive proboscideans called gomphotheres, a group that also gave rise to the modern elephants and their close relative the mammoth.

Each group is allowed to display a maximum of fifteen elephants and all efforts are made by each party to secure the best elephants in South India and the most artistic and colourful parasols, which are raised on the elephants during the display.

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For example, one cartoon panel depicts the barbarism of a group of Huns who had elephants herded off a cliff for their sadistic enjoyment.

In that particular case the tusks of the skeletons were missing, which indicates either that hunters killed a group of elephants in one spot, or else that opportunistic scavengers removed the tusks from a natural die-off.

Under the expansion the Zoo increases its number of elephants from a group of three to a herd of eight to ten African Elephants.

Of the African elephants that make up the famous group that is the central display in the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, one of the family African elephants there was shot by Delia.

Later, four elephants in the group were sent to the zoos of Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Changsha.

The tiger formed part of a specific group of large caricature images commissioned by Tipu showing European, often specifically British, figures being attacked by tigers or elephants, or being executed, tortured and humiliated and attacked in other ways.

In the US release of Tom-Yum-Goong, where it was named The Protector, there is a deleted scene of Kham beginning his ambush of the house party by the criminal group who stole his elephants.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.

This group in Park Place Church was made up of the earnest few.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

He was reading from the Talmud with a group of men from his congregation.

The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries, the secretary said, businessmen from Tokyo for the most part, and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission.

He was not going to lose the mission by default, and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission, he was going to be in for a surprise.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

Such a group of thermometers was obtained and calibrated at the Aj.

I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.

In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.

In spring and in autumn the run was made for a group of botanists which included an old friend of mine.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

Perhaps it was his misfortune, or good fortune, whichever way one looked at it, to belong to the former group, and he was struggling unconsciously to build up pressure in a world which demanded none, which was positively antagonistic to it.

`` Oh yes, the other day I reread some of Emerson's English Traits, and there was an anecdote about a group of English and Americans visiting Germany, more than a hundred years ago.

The improvement was most noticeable in the greater consistency among reaction cells prepared as a group on the same manifold.

One drop of each sample was added to one drop of a 2% suspension of group Af or group B red cells in a small Af test tube.

The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes ( notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group ).

This group of languages ( Welsh, Cornish, Cumbric ) cohabited alongside English into the modern period, but due to their remoteness from the Germanic languages, influence on English was notably limited.

He also designed some of the costumes worn by the group, notably those from the cover of the group's debut album Crowded House.

The Supremes, The group that made Ross famous and without which there probably wouldn't be any Diana Ross, scored a handful of hits in the disco clubs without Ross, most notably 1976's " I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking " and, their last charted single before disbanding, 1977's " You're My Driving Wheel ".

Most notably a small group of sperm whales live in this area year round.

Friction with the provincial government rose notably when, in October 1771, Allen and a company of Boys drove off a group of Scottish settlers near Rupert.

This coalition has held, although occasionally the group adopts a government-opposition dynamic with the other groups, notably during the budget crisis when it opposed the Socialists and brought about the resignation of the Santer Commission.

Some delegations within the group, notably the United Kingdom Independence Party, also advocate the complete withdrawal of their country from the EU whilst others only wish to limit further European integration.

Several assassination attempts were made on James, notably the Main Plot and Bye Plots of 1603, and most famously, on 5 November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot, by a group of Catholic conspirators, led by Sir Robert Catesby, which caused more antipathy in England towards the Catholic faith.

In the 18th century, a group of writers, most notably Ferenc Kazinczy began the process of language renewal ( Hungarian: nyelvújítás ).

Oxygen is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetallic element that readily forms compounds ( notably oxides ) with almost all other elements.

Other important political currents stem from the ongoing investigation of Fujimori-era corruption ( notably the proceedings against Fujimori's former advisor, Vladimiro Montesinos ), and an increase in activities by the insurgent group Sendero Luminoso.

A small group of critics has put forth a range of theories that aim to describe culture and / or society in the alleged aftermath of postmodernism, most notably Raoul Eshelman ( performatism ), Gilles Lipovetsky ( hypermodernity ), Nicolas Bourriaud ( Altermodern ), and Alan Kirby ( digimodernism, formerly called pseudo-modernism ).

They were assisted in this by a group of friends and associates who helped to sculpt the classic Roxy Music ' look ', notably fashion designer Antony Price, hair stylist Keith Mainwaring, photographer Karl Stoecker, the group's " PR consultant " Simon Puxley ( a former university friend of Mackay's ) and Ferry's art school classmate Nicholas De Ville.

There have been a few exceptions, notably in 2002 when the New York City administration agreed to turn over eleven squatted buildings in the Lower East Side to an established non-profit group, on the condition that the apartments would later be turned over to the tenants as low-income housing cooperatives.

Many individuals closely associated with Breton, notably Louis Aragon, left his group to work more closely with the Communists.

Although Christian values were notably present in several members ' work, there were also irreligious members of the discussion group.

Most recent scholars ( notably Peter Heather ) argue that Visigothic group identity emerged only within the Roman Empire.

The modern ethnic group is thus an Arabized Berber people inhabiting the westernmost Sahara desert, in the area of modern Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria and most notably the Western Sahara, with some tribes traditionally migrating into northern Mali and Niger.

This status has made Indonesian language relatively open to accommodate influences from other Indonesian ethnics ' languages, most notably Javanese as the majority ethnic group in Indonesia, and Dutch as the previous colonizer.

A group of viruses known as the hepatitis viruses cause most cases of hepatitis worldwide, but it can also be due to toxins ( notably alcohol, certain medications, some industrial organic solvents and plants ), other infections and autoimmune diseases.

Many components of an audio reproduction chain, notably loudspeakers and multiway loudspeaker crossover networks, introduce group delay in the audio signal.

In that season he was a member of what was referred to as the " Baby Bombers ", a group of young players ( most notably including Hird, Mark Mercuri, Gavin Wanganeen, Dustin Fletcher, Ricky Olarenshaw, David Calthorpe, Paul Hills and Joe Misiti ) that played a key role in the side winning the premiership that year.

He generally assumes one of three avatars: the sweet and innocent child ( as in the children's books ), the poignantly lovelorn and ineffectual being ( as, notably, in the Jerry Cornelius novels of Michael Moorcock ), or the somewhat sinister and depraved outsider ( as in David Bowie's various experiments, or Rachel Caine's vampire novels, or the S & M lyrics of the English rock group Placebo ).

He was responsible for the classic bass lines of the group, notably those in " Ramble On " and " The Lemon Song " ( Led Zeppelin II ), and power crunch and shifting time signatures, such as those in " Black Dog " ( Led Zeppelin IV ).