Elephant in sentence

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I rode on motorcycle for hours, crossing jungle streams and tall elephant grass, but I only got to the town after the government had burned it and its people were gone.

We asked a question about how the mind works, and we let our customers play the role of so many blind men filling out the elephant.

Jackie O. once said that traveling by camel made riding an elephant seem like taking a jet plane.

Now, I began with the war because it's the elephant in the room, and you can't pretend that there isn't about to be a war if you're talking about these issues.

Except a story told by a French company: a saga about a little girl and a giant elephant that came to visit for four days.

It can contract fast enough to power the high-speed wings of a hummingbird; it can grow strong enough to move an elephant; and it's adaptable enough to be used in the extremely versatile arms of an octopus, an animal that can squeeze its entire body through tiny holes.

Going back to our initial inspiration, the versatility of octopus arms and elephant trunks, we are now able to build soft continuum actuators that come closer and closer to the capabilities of the real thing.

They come from an ancient line of mammals, and there were once dozens of species including the giant ground sloth, which was the size of a small elephant and one of the only animals big enough to eat avocado pits whole and disperse them.

You're like a mouse looking at the foot of an elephant, and most of the organism is overhead, unseen.

You see here there's an elephant named Eleanor who came one day with bruised legs, and she collapsed.

There's a great big elephant in the room called the economy.

Manatees use nails to grasp their food, and researchers think elephant toenails may sense vibrations in the ground to help them hear.

Humans, some primates, some bats, the elephant shrew and the spiny mouse menstruate.

I spent many, many happy years studying elephant behavior in a tent, in Samburu National Reserve, under the guideship of professor Fritz Vollrath and Iain Douglas-Hamilton, studying for my PhD and understanding the complexities of elephant societies.

No longer can we just sit and understand elephant societies or study just how to stop the ivory trade, which is horrific and still ongoing.

Can you imagine the terror of an elephant literally ripping the roof off your mud hut in the middle of the night and having to hold your children away as the trunk reaches in, looking for food in the pitch dark?

You can see the ears going up, going out, they're turning their heads from side to side, one elephant is flicking her trunk to try and smell.

There's another elephant that kicks one of calves on the ground to tell it to get up as if there is a threat.

And one elephant triggers a retreat, and soon the whole family of elephants are running after her across the savannah in a cloud of dust.

So if an elephant tries to enter the farm, he will avoid the beehive at all cost, but he might try and push through between the hive and the dummy hive, causing all the beehives to swing as the wire hits his chest.

So we're having a great reduction both in elephant crop raids and a boost in yield through the pollination services that the bees are giving to the crops themselves.

I mean, look at the elephant.

You've forgotten all about the elephant haven't you?"

So back in 1982 I said, "Well perhaps the elephant had an aquatic ancestor."

But by now, everybody agrees that the elephant had an aquatic ancestor.

Everybody in the town will know that this elephant has drowned, so water will be there for seven months or nine months, or 12 months.

If you're a mammal, if you're a rat or an elephant, or a human, in between, it's the same story.

It's basically like trying to breathe, as a doctor said, while having an elephant standing on your chest.

And they are just as suspect in telling us to optimize these little things around the edges and missing the elephant in the living room.

But my elephant in the living room flies.

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