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RELATED: Dinosaur Jokes for Every Laugh-a-Saurus. 1. What did the momma elephant say to her kid when he was misbehaving? “Tusk, tusk!”. 2. Why was the elephant afraid to go to the computer store?
An elephant joke is a joke cycle, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant. Elephant jokes were a fad in the 1960s, with many people constructing large numbers of them according to a set formula. Sometimes they involve parodies or puns. [1] [2] [3]
Duck test. A mallard, shown looking like a duck and swimming like a duck. The duck test is a form of abductive reasoning. This is its usual expression: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably a duck. The test implies that a person can identify an unknown subject by observing that subject's habitual ...
Hunting for elephant ivory in Africa and Asia has led to natural selection for shorter tusks and tusklessness. Skin Asian elephant skin. An elephant's skin is generally very tough, at 2.5 cm (1 in) thick on the back and parts of the head. The skin around the mouth, anus, and inside of the ear is considerably thinner. Elephants are typically ...
Older elephants use trunk-slaps, kicks, and shoves to discipline younger ones. Individuals of any age and sex will touch each other's mouths, temporal glands, and genitals, particularly during meetings or when excited. This allows individuals to pick up chemical cues. Touching is especially important for mother–calf communication.
Enterolobium cyclocarpum. ( Jacq.) Griseb. Enterolobium cyclocarpum, commonly known as conacaste, guanacaste, caro caro, devil's ear tree, monkey-ear tree, or elephant-ear tree, is a species of flowering tree in the family Fabaceae, that is native to tropical regions of the Americas, from central Mexico south to northern Brazil ( Roraima) and ...
Alocasia odora (also called night-scented lily, Asian taro or giant upright elephant ear) is a flowering plant native to East and Southeast Asia ( Japan, China, Indochina, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Taiwan ). [1] [2] In Manipur, India, its local name is hoomu. Traditionally, A. odora (called ray) is sometime used as a medicine for the treatment ...
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Xanthosoma xantharrhizon (Jacq.) K.Koch. Xanthosoma sagittifolium (Tannia) is a tropical flowering plant from the family Araceae. It produces an edible, starchy corm. X. sagittifolium is native to tropical America where it has been first cultivated. Around the 19th century, the plant spread to Southeast Asia and Africa and has been cultivated ...
Elephant cognition is animal cognition as present in elephants. Most contemporary ethologists view the elephant as one of the world's most intelligent animals. With a mass of just over 5 kg (11 lb), an elephant's brain has more mass than that of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twenty times those of a ...