Other English names for Japanese knotweed include fleeceflower, Himalayan fleece vine, monkeyweed, monkey fungus, Huzhang (, literally " tiger stick "), Hancock's curse, elephant ears, pea shooters, donkey rhubarb ( although it is not a rhubarb ), sally rhubarb, Japanese bamboo, American bamboo, and Mexican bamboo ( though it is not a bamboo ).

It was named for the Florida manatee ( commonly called a " sea cow " though it is distantly related to the elephant ), which is endangered and the state's official marine mammal.

Alternatively though, the elephant has also been described as a possible symbol of the Indian capital of Taxila ( Tarn ),

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.

Though often deceptively sold to the modern tourist trade as elephant ivory, items made from ivorine have none of the striations common to animal ivory, though sometimes, the carving is artificially aged to have the yellowed appearance common to true old ivory carvings.

:* Mr. Precocious: A " small Shakespearean mutant " who looks a bit like a mini bipedal pink elephant, though may possibly be a bilby.

The. 338 Lapua Magnum is capable of taking down any game animal, though its suitability for some dangerous game ( Cape buffalo, hippopotamus, white rhinoceros and elephant ) is arguable, unless accompanied by a larger " backup " caliber: " There is a huge difference between calibers that will kill an elephant and those that can be relied upon to stop one.

These very large and very heavy firearms were the first to be known as the elephant guns of the black powder era ( 1850 – 1890 ), though their use also included all thick-skinned dangerous game such as rhinoceros, hippopotamus and cape buffalo.

It is not a true elephant gun, though, since it was not designed for pachyderm hunting but as a purely military weapon.

A. rivieri ; Japanese: 蒟蒻 / 菎蒻 ; こんにゃく ; konnyaku ; ; gonyak ; ), also known as konjak, konjaku, konnyaku potato, devil's tongue, voodoo lily, snake palm, or elephant yam ( though this name is also used for A. paeoniifolius ), is a plant of the genus Amorphophallus.

Also the earliest undisputed evidence of artistic expression during the Paleolithic period comes from Middle Paleolithic / Middle Stone Age sites such as Blombos Cave in the form of bracelets, beads, art rock, ochre used as body paint and perhaps in ritual, though earlier examples of artistic expression such as the Venus of Tan-Tan and the patterns found on elephant bones from Bilzingsleben in Thuringia may have been produced by Acheulean tool users such as Homo erectus prior to the start of the Middle Paleolithic period.

He took the three elephants with him, though one sick elephant died during the trip across the strait.

Erhard Reuwich's pictures for Bernhard von Breydenbach's 1486 Pilgrimages to the Holy Land were long thought to be the source for both the elephant and the giraffe, though more recent research indicates the mid-15th century humanist scholar Cyriac of Ancona's travelogues served as Bosch's exposure to these exotic animals.

The building cannot be described solely as long, or solely as rounded or as being arranged around a series of courtyards, though from certain angles, like the elephant described by the blind man, it could be thought to be any one of these.

Handles were once made of elephant ivory, but this has been discontinued, though fossil ivory, such as mammoth, is still sometimes used, and antique razors with ivory scales are occasionally found ( it is illegal to kill elephants for their ivory, but it is legal to buy an ivory-handled razor made before 1972 ).

It is closely related to elephant garlic and leeks and is generally regarded as being in the same species, though it is also commonly listed as Allium kurrat.

Another one asks the audience to think of words that start with certain letters, and then words linked to the last letters of those words, asking the audience to reveal only their last choices, but somehow almost always ends with the words " Grey elephant in Denmark " even though the audience thought up their own words throughout the steps.

Even though women were not permitted to take part in battle, Queen Suriyothai was so concerned for her husband that she disguised herself as a man and rode into battle on her own elephant.

Wandering further across the desert dehydrated, Nyatta digs and finds an elephant made of water, which cools them off and travels with them, though the elephant eventually evaporates from the heat.

By 1922 he was touted as " The Meanest Elephant " as well as " the largest elephant ever in captivity ", though at 10-feet-2-inches tall ( 3. 1 meters ), he was seven inches shorter than Jumbo.

Groucho Marx's classic joke depends on a grammatical ambiguity for its humor, for example: " Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas.

An early 17th century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with an elephant ’ s trunk, rhinoceros eyes, an ox tail, and tiger paws, which protected against pestilence and evil, although eating nightmares was not included among its abilities.

The bestiary contains a drawing depicting an elephant on its back being dragged along the ground by another elephant, with a caption stating that elephants lacked knees.

" The word " elephant " has its origins in the Greek, meaning " ivory " or " elephant ".

Known as the Double Elephant folio after its double elephant paper size, it is often regarded as the greatest picture book ever produced and the finest aquatint work.

The animal is said to be of a brownish-gray color with a smooth skin, its size is approximately that of an elephant ; at least that of a hippopotamus.

The Asian elephant can recognize its own reflection in a mirror

In 1997, the elephant returned, taking its current form: Stomper.

It shares its range with many other herbivores, such as the gemsbok, African bush elephant, blue wildebeest, plains zebra, and blesbok.

A white elephant is an idiom for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost ( particularly cost of upkeep ) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth.

* The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is being increasingly viewed as a " white elephant " by the US military, due to its astounding price tag of some $ 380 billion for nearly 2, 500 aircraft in three differing versions, to equip nine nations ' air forces.

Pliny the Elder mentions the oryx and an Indian ox ( perhaps a rhinoceros ) as one-horned beasts, as well as " a very fierce animal called the monoceros which has the head of the stag, the feet of the elephant, and the tail of the boar, while the rest of the body is like that of the horse ; it makes a deep lowing noise, and has a single black horn, which projects from the middle of its forehead, two cubits in length.

After the battle Caesar grant Legio V Alaudae the right to bear the elephant symbol on its shields and standards, for bravery against a charge of elephants.

This lack of a pleural space, along with an unusually thick diaphragm, are thought to be evolutionary adaptations allowing the elephant to remain underwater for long periods of time while breathing through its trunk which emerges as a snorkel.

And it is so strong that it will seize an elephant in its talons and carry him high into the air and drop him so that he is smashed to pieces ; having so killed him, the bird swoops down on him and eats him at leisure ".

Such descriptions doubtless captured the imaginations of later illustrators, such as Johannes Stradanus ca 1590 or Theodor de Bry in 1594 who showed an elephant being carried off in the roc's talons, or showed the roc destroying entire ships in revenge for destruction of its giant egg, as recounted in the fifth voyage of Sinbad the Sailor.

Tommaso Aldrovandini's Ornithologia ( 1599 ) included a woodcut of a roc with a somewhat pig-like elephant in its talons, but in the rational world of the 17th century, the roc was more critically looked upon.

* Peanut Butter Crunch: Peanut Butter Crunch was first released in 1969, with a large elephant named Smedley as its mascot ; according to sales charts, this version was the most successful at the time.

This mighty elephant reaches down his trunk into the watery underworld, sucks up its water, and then sprays it into the clouds, which Indra then causes to rain forth cool water, thereby linking the waters of the sky with those of the underworld.

Each of these deities has an elephant that takes part in the defense and protection of its respective quarter.

Mary ( elephant ) | Mary being executed on September 13, 1916 before a crowd of over 2, 500 witnesses at Erwin. The town of Erwin received its name by a mail mishap.