The Elephants Foot

Oleh Jerry

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It’s the ninth white elephant in captivity in the country. “We had to be careful,” Tun Tun Oo said of the 1.9-meter-tall (6-foot-3) elephant. “It’s wild. We didn’t want the elephant or the forestry department officials to get hurt.” It's well-known that elephants are intelligent and graceful creatures - but these animals have taken that reputation a step further by becoming professional painters. The group of seven Asian elephants hold specially-designed brushed in their trunks, which Some people were granted mercy, but only after a good scare. A command from the keeper could cause the elephant to bring its foot down, and gently roll the victim around the floor without hurting them. Now elephants are more in danger from us than we are Living between concrete walls with no grass or trees in sight has also damaged her psychical health and she suffers, as many zoo elephants do, from arthritis and foot problems. To ease her foot pain, she spends most of every day leaning against the walls “What to Do If an Elephant Stands on Your Foot” is a welcome entry to the genre. The action starts immediately. “If an elephant stands on your foot, keep calm,” the author, Michelle Robinson, advises in the first spread. “Panicking will only Farmers, who raised elephant foot yam (senai kilangu), or Amorphophallus paeniifolius, were a happy lot in the district, as the yield and the price it fetched were good. Arumugasamy, a farmer from Kuthiraikulam in Ottapidaram block, said he reaped an .

Detroit Zoo elephant Wanda, 46, takes a stroll in the elephant exhibit both continued to experience complications from chronic foot problems and severe arthritis," Janeway said in the release. "We knew this day was coming, but we are all sad," Kagan snakes or any animal that makes sudden movements by an elephant’s feet can startle it.” Elephants, you see, have incredibly poor eyesight, relying instead on a highly developed sense of smell. Venomous snakes can kill baby elephants, so evolutionarily This is a photo of the Chernobyl "Elephant's Foot", a solid mass made of a little melted nuclear fuel mixed with lots and lots of concrete, sand, and core sealing material that the fuel had melted through. The photo was taken in 1996. At that point It turns out that elephants have a sixth toe. They’ve adapted one of their wrist bones into a strut that supports their giant squishy feet. I wrote about this for Nature (excerpt below), but here’s my full interview with John Hutchinson, the man behind .