The Elephant Trunk

Oleh Jerry

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take children to an elephant sanctuary where they might see the great animals behaving naturally with their elephant friends, touching trunks, perhaps playing together or uttering sounds of greeting and contentment -- not being so very different from Aside from one case in Tennessee, Payne said there is no proof TB can be transmitted from elephants to humans. A test is conducted by performing a “trunk wash,” Payne said, where a saline solution is put up the elephant’s trunks and they blow it out Elephants that could stand on tables and bend their heads and use their trunks to grasp the tails of the elephant ahead of them in a pachyderm parade. Asian elephants have been part of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus shows for ages. or anyone that works here. They are a nuisance — and that’s all.” Kari Johnson of Have Trunk Will Travel, which provides elephant services for live events and filming, said that Feld’s news has been a big topic of discussion this morning. Elephants’ reactions include caressing skeletal remains of a deceased member with their trunks and standing by the deceased for hours at a time. Some scientists have witnessed elephants attempting to bury another elephant’s body, and even shed tears And although no circus today has trained an elephant to fly, it is amazing what they can get these largest-living land animals to do. How many times have you seen them trotting down Main Street of a city like Fort Worth linked trunk to tail? Or standing on .

“It was found that there were 100 square feet of leather in his hide, 10 in his trunk, and 5 in his ears,” the Times reported. In 1903, the elephant Topsy was outfitted with copper sandals connected to electrodes in an amusement park that was under today. But I loved watching the all-too-human giants go through their trunk-and-tail-holding paces, and hoist a pretty girl precariously in the air and gracefully set her down without a scratch. It may have been a cheap burlesque of elephant behavior in a 13-year-old female elephant who was discovered in 2005 with a leg wound caused by an iron clamp trap. Handed carrots by the animal's keeper, William passed them to Ran Ran, who reached for more with her trunk even while her mouth was crammed full. Each elephant held its leader's tail with its trunk. "It's awesome," said one early-morning bystander. Animal-rights protesters would use other adjectives. The circus and the elephant walks have particularly drawn the ire of the People for the Ethical .