The Nisibenes quickly repaired the walls while the Persian elephant cavalry became bogged down in the wet ground.

In 1988, an 18-year-old African elephant, Dunda, was subject to controversial training methods which, according to San Diego City Attorney John W. Witt, included " chaining her four feet, hauling her down to her knees and repeatedly smacking her on the top of the head, where the skull is thick, with ax handles and the wooden end of elephant hooks.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.

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 ".

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.

The worldwide association of Homotherium species with proboscidean ( elephant and mastodon ) and rhinoceros remains, mainly those of juveniles, suggests that Homotherium preyed selectively on these tough-skinned animals and probably hunted in packs, carrying away the large animals it brought down.

The circus director makes Dumbo the top of an elephant pyramid stunt, but Dumbo's ears cause the stunt to go wrong, injuring the other elephants and bringing down the big top.

For example, the Mughal emperor Jahangir made his rebellious son Prince Khusrau Mirza ride an elephant down a street lined with stakes on which the rebellious prince's supporters had been impaled alive.

Crawfurd recalls an event where " the criminal is tied to a stake, and favourite elephant runs down upon him and crushes him to death.

The tusks, more often the upper set, are worked much in the way of elephant tusks with all designs scaled down.

When they closed down, the upkeep of the elephant was written into the tenancy contract, so subsequent businesses have continued to look after it.

James referred to the fable of the elephant and tortoise several times, but told the infinite regress story with " rocks all the way down " in his essay, " The Sentiment of Rationality.

Deeply rooted in Thai culture, elephant training has traditionally been a familial heritage passed down through the generations.

The elephant apparently did not enjoy the ride, trumpeted wildly and ran through the wagon, broke through a window and fell some down into the Wupper river, suffering only minor injuries.

Finally, Tansen sang to the elephant who calmed down and the emperor was able to ride him.

The clown rode down the street on an elephant while the family gave him a teary good-bye.

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.

On July 21, 2006, Winkie, a female Asian elephant, knocked down and stepped on Joanna Burke, 36, Winkie's caregiver for 6 years, while Joanna was going to look at a sting to one of Winkie's eyes.

Two other fifteen second TV ads also created by the firm of Campbell-Ewald, spotlighted the Aveo: " Pachyderm " showing an elephant, chased down a city street by an Aveo and " Big Little ," in which four basketball players who enter the car appear tiny in big seats, highlighting the vehicle's interior volume.

The enclosure opened on 28 June 2007 with four elephants, and includes a waterfall, a river, a path with many impressions ( elephant footprints, human footprints, deer footprints and plant impressions ) a children's playground, a small viewing area, a large semi-sheltered viewing area where visitors can sit down, two elephant pools, two feeding areas, toilets, a large house in which visitors can see the elephants, plentiful vegetation, and educational signs.

At the end of each performance, Durante lay down on the stage and permitted a live elephant to place its foot upon his head.

Lactation ranges from 28 days in the northern elephant seal to just three to five days in the hooded seal.

The Historia Augusta suggests three alternative explanations: that the first Caesar had a thick head of hair ( Latin caesaries ); that he had bright grey eyes ( Latin oculis caesiis ); or that he killed an elephant ( caesai in Moorish ) in battle.

* 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.

It is the third largest land mammal by weight ( between 1½ and 3 tonnes ), behind the white rhinoceros ( 1½ to 3½ tonnes ) and the three species of elephant ( 3 to 9 tonnes ).

Some hyperlexic children learn to spell long words ( such as elephant ) before they are two years old and learn to read whole sentences before they turn three.

The three species, Haematomyzus elephantis ( the elephant louse ), Haematomyzus hopkinsi and Haematomyzus porci ( warthog lice ) belong to a single family, the Haematomyzidae.

Another possible origin of the myth originated from accounts of eggs of another extinct Malagasy bird, the enormous Aepyornis elephant bird, hunted to extinction by the 16th century, that was three meters tall and flightless.

It is depicted as a huge elephant with either three or sometimes thirty-three heads which are often shown with more than two tusks.

They had used Erawan, more commonly known as " The three headed elephant ", as their Royal Flag.

The Zoo's original animal collection consisted of eight monkeys, two Grizzly Bears, three White-tailed Deer, six raccoons, two elk, an American Bison, a Spotted Hyena, an American Alligator, a circus elephant, a tiger and over four hundred birds, which included a crow.

Being the only surviving member of the group of three, Isaac was sent back with the elephant.

As Thai kings fought wars mounted on elephants, it has become customary for parents to make their children circumambulate the elephant three times with the belief that that it would bring them strength.

Africa has three endemic orders of mammals, the Tubulidentata ( aardvarks ), Afrosoricida ( tenrecs and golden moles ), and Macroscelidea ( elephant shrews ).

In 2001, Stéphanie began a relationship with married elephant trainer Franco Knie and moved, along with her three children, into Knie's circus caravan.

King Sam Fang Kaen of Lannathai wanted it in his capital, Chiang Mai, but the elephant carrying it insisted, on three separate occasions, on going instead to Lampang.

* 1990 — — A Yip Yip contributes its voice to the Old MacDonald Cantata along with three Honkers, a Dinger, and Oscar's pet elephant Fluffy

The programme aims to protect three of the five terrestrial flagship species, the tiger, the Asian elephant and the Great One-horned Rhinoceros, by restoring corridors of forest to link 13 protected areas of Nepal and India to enable wildlife migration.

The main feature of the exhibit is the elephant habitat — more than three times the size of the Zoo's former elephant exhibit, in what used to be Elephant Mesa ( now the " Urban Jungle ").

It is the smallest of the three extant species of elephant but is also the third largest living terrestrial animal.

The new-look exhibit features a sand paddock with standing dead trees, a mud paddock, three outdoor sleeping pens and the UK's largest elephant pool.

He was also gifted a female elephant and now aged 20 he was bestowed with the title of " Chin Kilich Khan " ( boy swordsman ) for surviving an attack that blew off three of his horse's legs during the Siege of Wagingera Fort.

The current elephant and castle crest was granted in 1622 ; this features two elephants and three crossed-swords, a helmet and a smaller elephant and castle.