| 单词 | Indian elephant |
| 例句 | The sides of the base layer are decorated with Indian elephants connected nose to tail. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I also loved stories of wolves, bears, and wolverines in North America and Canada, jaguars anacondas and sloths in South America, orangutans, Indian elephants, and tapirs in Asia, and so on. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Boucheron’s animal magnetism encompassed the playful nature of a ring inspired by Beatrice Potter’s squirrel “Nutkin,” in ginger sapphires, to magical Indian elephants with jeweled howdahs. Jewelry: Unzip the Bling 2011-01-31T14:40:04Z The elephants that are beloved in Thailand are technically under the Indian elephant category, which is a subspecies of the Asian elephant. Elephants in Thailand get fruit-and-veggie buffet in celebration of 'National Elephant Day' 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z “If you look at African elephants and Indian elephants, they’re relatively hairless, but they have very close relatives who were alive hundreds of thousands of years that were completely woolly,” Clark said. Humans still have the genes for a full coat of body hair 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Indian elephant: Dissections of elephant eyes show that during the day, the gentle giants likely have red-green color blindness just like some humans, meaning they can’t distinguish the two colors. See the Most Bizarre and Beautiful Animal Eyes on Earth 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z The most famous incident in its history concerns an Indian elephant. World's oldest electric suspension train reopens in Germany 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Her study beds the manuscripts in early-modern empiricism, and beautifully complements the plates — a jewel box of exquisitely rendered sunfish, chameleons, bees, an Indian elephant and more. Profits for the people, six millennia of cities, and the roots of sickness and health: Books in brief 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Indian elephants are considered to be endangered, with their population falling by over 50 percent since the 1940s. Indian village mob lobs firebombs at mother, baby elephants to protect their property 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z One famous example of an unexpected event was the guest appearance of Lulu the baby Indian elephant in 1969. In pictures: Blue Peter turns 60 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The Indian elephant may be slow to learn, but it is hard to budge. India faces growing competition with China in its own backyard 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z “Credit in emerging markets is ideally played by local players with local talent,” Venkat Ramaswamy, Edelweiss’s co-founder, said in an interview in his office, surrounded by different manifestations of the Indian elephant protector god, Ganesha. India’s Bad Debt Is Looking Better to Investors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Its wooded hills, grasslands and tropical forests host many endangered species including the tiger, pygmy hog, Indian rhinoceros and Indian elephant. More than 100 natural world heritage sites degraded by human activity, says report 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The elephant theme was chosen in honour of Lizzie the Indian elephant who was put to work in Sheffield during World War One. 'Herd of Sheffield' elephant statues stampede into city - BBC News 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Yet no amount of government tinkering or talking up is going to turn the Indian elephant into a tiger any time soon. Bouquets and brickbats 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “This fixed pattern of thinking was created and hyped up by the West, which, with ulterior motives, regards the ‘Chinese dragon’ and the ‘Indian elephant’ as natural rivals,” it said. U.S. and India Share Sense of Unease Over China 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z A funky Indian elephant batik hung on the wall. At VA, exploring alternative therapies for chronic pain and other ailments On the cobbled streets of industrial Sheffield an Indian elephant dutifully lumbered along. War elephants conscripted in WW1 2013-11-11T02:13:45Z At least three Asian teams are already seeking DNA from a mammoth frozen in Russia 4,500 years ago, to mix with the genes of its closest modern relative, the Indian elephant. Jurassic Park prize for science 2012-09-10T15:12:45Z There are reckoned to be about 2,000 African and Indian elephants in zoos worldwide and another 15,000 Indian elephants kept privately - mostly in logging companies and temples. Elephant grows from frozen sperm 2012-08-14T15:57:03Z Baby the two-and-a-half tonne Indian elephant escaped from her enclosure at a nearby circus and went on a walk to the shops. Escaped elephant hits the shops 2012-03-29T06:50:10Z The boldest hunters feared to attack the monster, whose eyes shone with fire, while its bristles stood erect like spears, and its tusks resembled those of an Indian elephant. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z The Indian elephant fights, as I was informed by the late Dr. Falconer, in a different manner according to the position and curvature of his tusks. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Then came a fight between hyenas and wolves; another between an Indian elephant and a tiger; and then a leopard and a panther were led to opposite sides of the arena. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z These were merely shown to the fire, and a crude substance was thus produced, which by a well-fed Indian elephant would certainly have been rejected with a severe admonition to his keeper. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Young Indian elephants are hairy, thus showing affinity with the mammoth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The Indian region is the home of the Indian elephant—one of the two sole remaining representatives of the order Proboscidea. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" At the north end of the building two towering Indian elephants swayed on picket, munching hay and shuffling monotonously on padded, ponderous feet. Clean Break As compared with our Indian elephants, its head was rough, the brain-case low and narrow, but the trunk and mouth were much larger. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 An unfounded prejudice as to the want of docility of the African elephant has favoured the notion that the Carthaginians used the Indian elephant. More Science From an Easy Chair Unlike the African species, the Indian elephant charges with its trunk curled up, and consequently in silence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z A curious propensity in the Indian elephant has been repeatedly noticed. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals Yet the Indian elephant is about as much like his African brother as a tomcat is like a tiger. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country The Indian elephant at the present time inhabits most of the southern countries of Asia, including the large islands, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, etcetera. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family The Indian elephant was hunted in Mesopotamia in the twelfth century b.c., and Egyptian drawings of the eighteenth dynasty show elephants of this species brought as tribute by Syrian vassals. More Science From an Easy Chair The phyletic series of the true elephants in Europe are relatively short, and go back only to the Quaternary, Elephas antiquus giving origin to the Indian elephant, E. priscus to the African. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Elephants, No. 425.—The two Indian elephants now in the Zoological Society's Gardens, in Regent's Park, are interesting examples of the growth of these animals in captivity. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon We are not descended from men with tails, any more than we are descended from Indian elephants. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science The former of these species is indigenous to the whole of Southern India and the Eastern Archipelago; but the largest and most valuable Indian elephant is that of Ceylon. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852 The mammoth was a near cousin of the Indian elephant, and inhabited cold uplands and the fringes of sub-Arctic forests, on which he fed. More Science From an Easy Chair Prof., on the geology of Ceylon, 61. his statement as to the height of Indian elephants, 100 n. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon According to Professor Flower, the cranial cavity is elongated and depressed, more so in the African than the Indian elephant. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Only the males among the Indian elephants have tusks; but in Ethiopia and Lybia, both males and females are provided with them. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Mr Corse Scott states that the Indian elephant has only ten or twelve laminæ in the tooth, while that of the great mammoth has twenty-four, besides having a much more regularly disposed enamel. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852 But the new-born young are covered with hair, and some Indian elephants living in cold, mountainous regions appear to retain a certain amount of hair through life. More Science From an Easy Chair The fossil remains of the Indian elephant have been discovered at Jabalpur, showing a height of fifteen feet.—Journ. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon Before proceeding to a detailed account of the Indian elephant, I will cursorily sketch the difference between it and its African brother. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Here I saw the skeleton of a mastodon about ten feet tall and twenty feet long; also the tusks of an extinct species of Indian elephant, which were nine feet and nine inches long. A Trip Abroad She inferred that, as elephants--though hitherto untamed--abounded in all the districts to which we were going, Indian elephants would thrive well throughout Equatorial Africa. Freeland A Social Anticipation Probably the Indian "mahout," or elephant trainer could, if he were put to it, do as much with an African as he does with an Indian elephant. More Science From an Easy Chair His tail was much longer than in the Indian elephants, and was tipped with a bunch of long, straight, black hair. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Next to a man an Indian elephant is the most intelligent creature existing on this earth of ours, as far as we know. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Still, there were the Scythians, father, and the Indian elephants; they were no joke. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 The theatre-going public has been well supplied with trained chimpanzees, and the mental capacity of that species is now more widely known and appreciated than that of any other wild animal except the Indian elephant. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations It seems next to impossible to acquire at the present day either specimens or trustworthy records of the largest Indian elephants. More Science From an Easy Chair This was Kinka, a gentle and tractable, little Indian elephant, who was well versed in the chase, and who was about as pretty and graceful as it is possible for a koomkie to be. Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories On the other hand the sight of Commodus using a full-grown male Indian elephant as a target for his arrows enraged me. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire A wild Indian elephant dreads the sun, and is seldom to be found exposed in the open after dawn of day. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 In the Zoological Park we have had, and still have, a persistent case of it in a female Indian elephant now twenty-three years of age, named "Alice." The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations A very fine Indian elephant's tusk weighs from 75 lb. to 80 lb. More Science From an Easy Chair More often than not the most an Indian elephant will do to his foe is to kick him from one huge foot to another until he is either dead or dying. Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories This is a distinct species, as may be seen by a comparison with the Indian elephant in the Zoological Gardens of the Regent's Park. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon The Indian elephant has many more laminae in the teeth than the African, constituting a larger grinding surface, as the food is different. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 It was in the jungles of the Animallai Hills of southern India that I first became impressed by the mental capacity of the Indian elephant. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations I was informed by the late Dr. Falconer, that the Indian elephant fights in a different manner according to the position and curvature of his tusks. The Descent of Man I began to believe in what I had frequently heard asserted, that the forehead shot so fatal to the Indian elephant had no effect upon the African species, except by mere chance. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs Or structure might change first, as the direction of tusks in one variety of Indian elephants, which leads it to attack the tiger in a different manner from other kinds of elephants. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 An Indian elephant to be perfect should be 9 feet 6 inches in perpendicular height at the shoulder. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 In ordinary life the Indian elephant is one of the most even-tempered of all animals. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Campbell, J., on the Indian elephant; on the proportion of male and female births in the harems of Siam. The Descent of Man The Indian elephant is known sometimes to weep. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals At Arbela they had fought against Indian elephants; in the thickets of the Caspian they had roused from his lair the lurking royal tiger. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science Does the Indian elephant attack the gaur, the sambar, the axis deer or the muntjac? The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Once in the Zoological Park I heard our troublesome Indian elephant, Alice, roaring continuously as if in pain. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations |
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