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Elephant in sentence

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The boy is petting the elephant.
Computer: A man is standing next to an elephant.
The elephant has the same skeleton, the killer whale has the same skeleton, as do we.
This is an elephant named Philo.
In 1980, there were vast strongholds of elephant range in Central and Eastern Africa.
If you say, "there's an elephant in the room," there isn't an actual one, looking for the peanut dish on the table.
Human ones weigh 1.5 kilograms, elephant brains 5 kg, and whale brains 9 kg, yet on a per weight basis, humans pack in more neurons than any other species.
Monkeys, apes, bats, humans, and possibly elephant shrews are the only mammals on Earth that menstruate.
For instance, an elephant or whale will live much longer than a mouse, rat, or vole, which in turn have years on flies and worms.
Jefferson's sloth, Megalonyx, weighed about a ton, and that was small compared to megatherium, which could reach six metric tons, as much as an elephant.
We cannot ignore this elephant in our room.
I am the elephant in the room.
Because the real elephant in the room here is fatphobia.
I'm going to talk to you now about the elephant rather than the camel in the room.
In other words, we want to leave the option open for there being a giant elephant at the center of our galaxy.
So in our simulations, we pretend a black hole looks like astronomical non-black hole objects, as well as everyday images like the elephant in the center of our galaxy.
Unlike many proverbs, the one about elephant memory is scientifically accurate.
All of this shows that elephant memory goes beyond responses to stimuli.
The elephant boasts the largest brain of any land mammal, as well as an impressive encephalization quotient.
This is the size of the brain relative to what we'd expect for an animal's body size, and the elephant's EQ is nearly as high as a chimpanzee's.
The ability to distinguish this importance makes elephant memory a complex and adaptable faculty beyond rote memorization.
And yes, there is an elephant band.
One working elephant refused to set a log down into a hole where a dog was sleeping, while elephants encountering injured humans have sometimes stood guard and gently comforted them with their trunk.
On the other hand, elephant attacks on human villages have usually occurred right after massive poachings or cullings, suggesting deliberate revenge.
But let's talk about the elephant in the room.
Without an open and honest dialogue between the two of us, this election would have been the elephant in the room for the next four years, pun intended.
The average man has a brain about three times smaller than the average elephant, but that doesn't mean the average man is three times dumber than an elephant ... or does it?
After a week, we celebrated the birthday of that Okapi, they killed an elephant, just 50 meters to the area where the zoo, where Okapi was born.
The elephant just decayed and they just got the tusks.
If I know when I was young, that [by] killing an elephant, I'm destroying biodiversity, I would not have done it.
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