| 单词 | pachyderm |
| 例句 | And when I did, the sharp edge of the pachyderm's trunk sliced right into my glabella. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Hazel dragged Percy out of the road as a demigod rode past on a full-grown pachyderm covered in black Kevlar armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The pachyderm is perched on the larger ball, with all four feet crowded together and her back arched. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “No. An elephant is a pachyderm. It means an animal with a thick skin.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Waiting in that line in the sweltering heat could sometimes feel more like an endurance test on “Survivor” than the prelude to soaring with a magical pachyderm. Inside Disney’s New Fantasyland 2012-12-21T16:55:27Z The umbrella organisation for contemporary music that never quite covered enough - or covered too much - seemed in danger of becoming the whitest of lumbering pachyderms in the musical world. Sound and Music: A new era dawns 2013-04-30T17:57:30Z We respected his request and tried not to provoke the pachyderm. In Chicago, the tourist experience is a mix of the familiar and the foreign 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the object of that sin looks on, several inscrutable tons of hot-tempered pachyderm. "One Lucky Elephant": Man and pachyderm, a love story 2011-06-11T13:11:00Z SYCOPHANT: Prehistoric pachyderm also known as the brown-nose mammoth. Style Invitational: ‘Wait Wait’ for us with multiple-choice trivia questions 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Or would the Greatest Show on Earth prove a little less grand without its prancing pachyderms? Can the Circus Go On Without Elephants? Ringling Bets It Can 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z He and his team packed up the youngest female pachyderms first after getting them comfortable with being coaxed inside a trailer, Newby said. Former circus elephants just arrived at a new sanctuary. They are swimming and grazing on fruit buffets. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z There is, however, a huge pachyderm in the debating chamber: the manifest unfairness of our first-past-the-post system. Review 2010-04-21T01:19:00Z Let’s let Mr. O’Brien say something else: “Being with him is like being with a benign pachyderm who’s terrified he’s going to put his foot down and accidentally crush you with his intelligence.” Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The sedentary pachyderm is rumored to live in Manzhouli, a city in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, some distance from the gray industrial city where the film’s characters struggle and suffer. ‘An Elephant Sitting Still’ Review: Bleak, Graceful Realism 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Each unfolds in a conversational murmur, depicting two rhapsodists in a state of intuitive kinship: Mr. Haden with his pachyderm grace, Mr. Jarrett with his lyrical eddies of tension and release. Willie Nelson, Mali Music and Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z McKay examines our long fascination with the mysterious, extinct pachyderms that once roamed the earth. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The rock the pavilion rests on looks like some giant pachyderm. Chinese Landscapes at the Met: If Those Mountains Could Talk 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The film's images are dramatic, some by contrast: We see a line of elephants silhouetted majestically against an orange African sun as well as a solitary pachyderm confined within a zoo enclosure. Lily Tomlin speaks up for elephants in documentary 2013-04-24T18:32:11Z The Hermanos circus, like Ringling, has also evolved; it ultimately rebounded, he added, by shifting to theatrical storytelling in the absence of pachyderm wow. Ringling Circus Is Returning. Lions, Tigers and Dumbo Are Not. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Sears’s pachyderms, both African and Asian, are buoyant, weightless wonders. | Westchester: A Review of ‘Hudson River Explorers,’ in Yonkers 2012-09-01T04:29:48Z Sacred Elephant West Coast premiere of this solo show, adapted from a poem by Heathcote Williams, about man’s relationship with the pachyderm. L.A. theater openings, July 20-27: 'No Exit,' 'Streetcar' and more 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Cuvier’s comparative anatomical studies of these ancient pachyderms led him to his heretical discovery, announced in 1796, of the phenomenon of extinction. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Especially valuable is the baku, a mystical pachyderm capable of sucking dreams — and nightmares — straight out of one’s head. ‘Cryptozoo’ Review: Wild Things 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z For despite its often broadly comic tone, this hard-working but uninvolving production moves with the lumbering tread of a pachyderm in no hurry to get to the watering hole. Theater Review: ‘A Man’s a Man,’ a Brecht Rarity, is Revived 2014-01-31T03:00:17Z One particularly striking wildflower was the lilac-colored elephant head, whose thick petals do indeed bring to mind the image of pachyderms’ trunks. Journeys: Step by Step, Hut by Hut in Colorado 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z Illustrated by Tony Ross, the book tells of a small boy who is amazed to find an exasperating pachyderm on his doorstep. Walliams picture book up for prize 2014-03-27T17:36:18Z The intimately imagined social hierarchy and inner lives of the pachyderms are as layered — with spiritualism, intricate relationships among members of the herd and even poems and song — as any human family epic. Books New and Old for the Would-Be Time Traveler 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Overproduced and undernourishing, the show is a mishmash of dispiriting conceits, revolving around an unhappy young man and an abused pachyderm. Perspective | In London, the shows go on — but apathy is unmasked 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The pachyderm is expected to return to Sri Lanka after treatment, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has said, and animal welfare activists hope he will be sent to a sanctuary. Sri Lanka readies ailing Thai elephant for flight home 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The pachyderm rituals would not have seemed out of place at a human funeral: Some stood in quiet order while observing Tolstoy's remains, and others gently touched his body with their trunks. "Elephants speak in a language that we can't hear": Up close with giants in "Secrets of the Elephant 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z But give this Asian elephant, who lives at the Berlin Zoo, a yellow banana speckled with brown, and she might do what none of her pachyderm companions do: peel it. This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Showing it in pachyderms would bolster that argument. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Owners have since struggled to feed the ravenous pachyderms, and some have turned to social media to raise money for food. Your Monday Briefing: Donald Trump’s Legal Tactics 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z On nearby roads, it’s not uncommon to see pachyderms traipsing along with their mahouts straddling their thick necks as vehicles carefully navigate around them. Thailand’s Unemployed Elephants Are Back Home, Huge and Hungry 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Mr Renjith sees the pachyderm at least once in two months. Padayappa: The friendly India elephant whose fame is a curse 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Said pachyderm is on his way to a mansion in Bel-Air, at the time still a dusty desert mountain, for a party hosted by movie mogul Wallach. How 'Babylon's' production designer resurrects a Hollywood long gone 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z The prolific wiring allows the pachyderms to pull tree trunks out of the ground or pick up a single leaf, and to drink, store, and spray water. Elephants have more facial neurons than any other land mammal 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z But for the state of golf, it’s starting to feel like a herd of pachyderms. Dustin Johnson looking to get back on track at PGA 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z But now, thanks to a few dozen YouTube videos, scientists finally have the data they need to analyze grieflike displays in these elusive pachyderms. YouTube videos reveal Asian elephants may mourn their dead 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z And fully loaded with grain, a combine harvester weighs up to 36 tons—as much as a small herd of pachyderms. Big tractors, now heavier than many dinosaurs, can damage deep soil 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z In the fable, part of his extensive “Masnavi,” multiple people enter a space devoid of light housing a pachyderm. Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi on 'A Hero' and his own complicated feelings on fame in Iran 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z No wonder pachyderms have some of the most expressive trunks and ears on the planet. Elephants have more facial neurons than any other land mammal 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Its two-fold role is to keep the pachyderms in and poachers out. Is trouble ahead for South Africa’s private rhino breeders? 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Some of the newly documented pachyderm behaviors—including carrying dead infants—have been observed in African elephants, as well as in chimpanzees, giraffes, and dolphins. YouTube videos reveal Asian elephants may mourn their dead 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z “Thoughts and prayers,” said the pachyderm’s PR man, Tarzan. Sideline Chatter: What would you call it if you hit it in the pouch? A joey? 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s unclear for now what Sodo’s pink pachyderm’s fate will be, or whether it will join its compatriots across the street. Seattle loses its last Elephant Car Wash location 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Workers are dismembering the enormous elephant sculptures at night so that tourists and shoppers aren’t imperiled by wayward pachyderm parts. The Hollywood & Highland elephants are coming down, a rejection of D.W. Griffith's racist legacy 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z The other shows successful coexistence, such as among people and pachyderms in southern India. Herd community? Elephants show us how to coexist 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z A pop music icon helps a pitiable pachyderm in Pakistan pack his trunk and pull up stakes for a nature preserve in Cambodia in the documentary “Cher & the Loneliest Elephant.” What’s on TV This Week: 'Cruel Summer,' 'Romeo and Juliet,' Earth Day docs and more 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z I had no desire to be the pachyderms’ next casualty. Squeezing the Elephant 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z She sits in the back of the pachyderm, while Scalia is up front. The Ginsburg and Scalia Show: “Best buddies” on and off the bench 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z At Big Time Brewery & Alehouse — Seattle’s oldest active brewpub, and a U District staple since 1988 — the pachyderms are purposeful. ‘We just have to survive and keep going forward’: How local businesses are impacted by a fall without UW football 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z As the young male pachyderm looks on — his ears widening — the guides set up a tripod upon which Raby places his rifle. This L.A. hunter killed an elephant. Now he's a PETA target in bid to end trophy hunting 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Two visitors on Thursday spotted Kora on the ground among dense foliage between the rhino habitat and the pachyderm building, the zoo said on Facebook. Missing red panda found safe in Columbus Zoo 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Ndlovu is the Zulu word for elephant, and like the pachyderm the choir members are showing determination to move forward. South African choir adapts to COVID-19 by making new music 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z They hewed close to the old route, the one imprinted on generations of pachyderm brains, but not so close that the day-trippers, with their picnics of sticky rice and grilled pork, would see them. Elephants, Long Endangered by Thai Crowds, Reclaim a National Park 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The 15-year-old pachyderm, which was two months pregnant, apparently strayed into a village near the Silent Valley National Park in Palakkad district last week and ate a pineapple containing firecrackers. Outrage over elephant 'firecracker fruit' death 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z That’s probably a misleading way to characterize a herd of pachyderms making their dangerous annual migration across hundreds of miles of parched Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. Review: Disneynature doc 'Elephant' is gorgeous if much too obvious (tusk, tusk) 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Lucy the Elephant, a national landmark built in 1881 in Margate, a seaside city about five miles south of Atlantic City, is the last of three hulking pachyderms that once stood along the East Coast. New Airbnb listing: a 65-foot-tall landmark elephant 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The pachyderm, who was transferred to Oakland from the San Diego Zoo in 1993, was found on the ground Tuesday. 50-year-old elephant, oldest at Oakland Zoo, collapses and dies 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Happy the elephant is, contrary to her sunny name, being detained by the Bronx Zoo “illegally”, due to her personhood, and must be released, according to the pachyderm’s self-appointed legal team. Lawyers argue Happy the elephant should have the same rights as humans 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The pachyderms overlapped in time, certainly, but they didn't necessarily call each other "neighbor." Canada Gets Its First Smilodon 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z The Elephant Queen Documentary about a matriarchal pachyderm leading her herd on a journey across the African savannah. Movies opening in L.A. this week: 'Maleficent,' 'Zombieland' sequels and more 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The zoo said the pachyderm was euthanized Wednesday night in her exhibit yard, surrounded by keepers and staff after several days of what officials called hospice care for the elderly elephant. Santa Barbara Zoo's last elephant, 48-year-old Little Mac, is euthanized 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The Pleistocene pachyderm was a buffet for humans who lived in the vicinity of ancient San Diego 130,000 years ago. Busted Mastodon Is Ice Age Roadkill 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Almost as noticeable are his eyes, which are so alarmingly blue that he appears to be ninety-five per cent pachyderm and five per cent Paul Newman. The Winning Excess of “The Beach Bum” 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The digital pachyderm is a fully formed character, even though, as in the original film, he never speaks a single word of dialogue. Review | Tim Burton’s ‘Dumbo’ remake is decidedly — and deliciously — dark 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Whether cowering at a new height or finding astonishment as he, with a sneeze, is sent airborne, the digitally rendered Dumbo is one precious pachyderm. Review: ‘Dumbo’ remake takes flight on its own charms 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Each massive pachyderm eats 100 pounds of hay every day. Omaha zoo uses compost farm to manage animal waste 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z New York State Police said Monday a wayward pachyderm was found wandering by state troopers in the town of Westtown, about 70 miles northwest of New York City. Elephant found wandering in New York town gets escort from state police 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Finally, with the help of a mahout, a traditional elephant trainer, the rangers captured the escaped pachyderm. How to Attract a Killer Tigress? Try a Man’s Cologne 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The 2018 documentary “Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story” seeks to raise awareness about the plight of pachyderms in captivity in Southeast Asia. TV This Week, July 29-Aug. 4; 'Three Billboards,' 'Call Me by Your Name' and more 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The lovely, slender model dressed in Yves Saint Laurent evening wear designed for Dior is a sinuous, vertical black-and-white line rising like ephemeral smoke between two stomping pachyderms. Review: 'Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography' at the Getty Museum reveals the limits of the art form 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z He drives his muscle car on sidewalks, claims to know Joni Mitchell, and ingests enough drugs to tranquilize a pachyderm. Glen David Gold’s new memoir is ‘a soiree of heart-wreck wised up by humor’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The elephant’s milestone is significant: The average lifespan is 42 years for captive Asian pachyderms and 47 for captive African elephants. Oldest elephant at Tennessee sanctuary turning 70 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The Teachers Retirement System is therefore the elephant in the Gold Dome, a pachyderm best ignored. Georgia editorial roundup 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z He is supposedly a producer for "Animal Planet" researching a segment on Myanmar's "unemployed elephants," pachyderms left without jobs or purpose after the teak trade tanks. 'Unemployed Elephants' in Burbank: Road trip rom-com is good for some laughs 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z He walked through a portal at the elephant house labeled “Loadout” to begin his new life with the zoo’s six female pachyderms and to renew acquaintances. Meet Spike: The National Zoo’s new elephant and only male brings hope for a baby 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Carson & Barnes said in a statement that the pachyderms were healthy. Feds: Roadside transfer of 4 elephants did not violate law 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Trooper Dwight Durant said Thursday that the floor of the trailer carrying the pachyderms had started to give way and was dragging on the road, sparking grass fires along the way. This week in odd news: Burrito beaning; Cow’s new pals 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z A veterinarian from the area helped move the pachyderms, and they were transferred to another trailer for transportation. Truck hauling elephants stalls, blocks traffic in Oklahoma 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The ultimate goals are to help law enforcement and policy-makers shut down the ivory market and raise public awareness of the plight of pachyderms. Seized ivory probed for clues that could help save elephants 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z The album’s title means “The Elephants,” but even without a pachyderm’s memory this is music you aren’t likely to soon forget. Overlooked albums of 2017: Tinariwen, Lydia Loveless 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z One carries an undersized, undernourished pachyderm in his arms toward an awaiting helicopter from the Karen Blixen Camp Ree Park Safari. Orphaned Baby Elephant Saved by Helicopter 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z But by attaching a radio transmitter to these animals, the scientists from the University of Pretoria are able to record and analyse the animals' chatter, hoping to unlock some of the pachyderms' linguistic mysteries. The company that helps elephants and rocket cars 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z State Forest Minister Pramilla Brahma said the area is an elephant habitat and the unauthorized settlements were forcing the pachyderms to leave in search of food. Indian police use elephants to clear their protected habitat 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z "Reprehensible behavior by the Trump Admin," tweeted The Elephant Project, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to the conservation of African pachyderms. US to lift ban on elephant trophy imports 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The pachyderm eventually emerged from the well in the northern district of Anuradhapura and headed into the nearby jungle, directed by flares set off by rescuers. Sri Lankan rescuers dig trench to free trapped elephant 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Ringling Bros. is gone but the smaller circuses remain, and in Illinois, anyway, will carry on minus the pachyderms. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Today, 43 zoos are members of the Elephant Welfare Initiative, which tracks real-time data on their pachyderms, all in an effort to improve conditions. Elephants unchained: 'The day has gone by when this was entertainment' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z The hope is that the transplanted pachyderms will help solve conservation problems in both their original homes and their new locale. See What It Takes to Move 500 Elephants 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The lumbering pachyderms could easily get overheated and dehydrated. Oklahoma man recounts chasing loose circus elephants 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The pachyderm eventually emerged from the well in the northern district of Anuradhapura and headed into the nearby jungle, directed by flares set off by rescuers. Sri Lankan rescuers dig trench to free trapped elephant 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Navy personnel said the pachyderm was caught in a current off the coast near the town of Kokkilai and dragged into the ocean where it was spotted by a patrol boat. Swimming trunk: elephant rescued from ocean 10 miles off Sri Lanka coast 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z In fact, few things are required of the 10 pachyderms here. Elephants unchained: 'The day has gone by when this was entertainment' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Yet this ignores two large pachyderms in the room: The intense consolidation of industries through mergers and the rise of cartels and giant companies with commanding market power and ability to undersell competitors. What’s behind the slowdown in American startups 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z One woman said she didn’t know the pachyderms were missing, and Mrs. Joyce Higgins said she and her husband feared only for the safety of their fences. Oklahoma man recounts chasing loose circus elephants 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Law enforcement officers quickly got in touch with the nearby Circus World Museum, home to the wandering pachyderm. Escaped elephant strolls through Wisconsin neighborhood 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The pachyderms make a rich meal: They’re fattier than other animals, and those fat calories are readily available even if the meat is uncooked. Quest for Clues to Humanity's First Fires 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z This not only shuffles the straight-tusked elephants into a new place on the pachyderm family tree, but it alters what paleontologists thought about the long history of elephants. In Ancient Bones, an Elephant-Size Surprise 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z After Ringling retired its last pachyderms to a company-owned elephant conservation center in Florida, ticket sales declined much more than Feld expected, and the company announced in January that Ringling would close for good. Thunderous applause, tears as the ‘greatest show on Earth’ takes a final bow 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z To test the elephants, the scientists traveled to Thailand, where they posed a problem to 12 Asian pachyderms. Another point for elephant intelligence: They know when their bodies are in the way 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z In a 2005 self-portrait, she depicted herself as a thick-skinned human pachyderm. Why Dana Schutz Painted Emmett Till 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Juliet will long be remembered as the city’s nationally famous pachyderm. Elephants both the heart, demise of Greatest Show on Earth 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The sprawling ranch now cares for more than 30 pachyderms. 50 Circus Animals Need New Homes When Ringling Bros. Shuts Down 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z It is not a coincidence that Ringling Bros. just announced the circus would fold its tent after nearly 150 years in business. Lion tamers, pachyderms and clowns can no longer compete. Scum of the earth lowlife packs a bag for Trump's inauguration 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z But the elephants, glorious, loyal and intelligent beasts were both Ringling Bros.’ signature and their downfall, after animal rights advocates called for the organization to retire the great pachyderms under accusation of abuses for years. WATCH: Big top no more: Ringling Brothers shuts down, animal rights advocates rejoice 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z But elephants are likely to top the bill with countries bitterly divided over the best way to protect the ponderous pachyderms. Deep divisions over elephants to dominate key species meeting - BBC News 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z The pachyderm hits a funny political note of Republican presidential imagery, too. How to spend 24 hours of unbridled freedom of expression at Burning Man 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z At the current rate of decline, half the continent's remaining pachyderms will be gone in just nine years. Why elephants are seeking refuge in Botswana - BBC News 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Toles has long drawn the presumptive GOP nominee with a certain pachyderm girth beneath the helmet hair. Here’s the trick to drawing the perfect Donald Trump 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The Greatest Show on Earth was done with its pachyderms. Better than reality television: The 2016 election is proving to be the greatest show on Earth 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z And this past spring, a park staffer who was cleaning the elephant habitat was trampled to death by one of the pachyderms. Tiger mauls grandmother to death at Beijing safari park 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z “Interviewing a candidate is about as intimate as catching him on television,” Norman Mailer wrote from the Republican Convention in Miami in 1968, to which some G.O.P. genius had flown in a pachyderm. How to Steal an Election 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Africa's rhinos are not even the highest priority in pachyderm conservation, particularly because only white rhinos from private collections are to be moved. Conservation: Don't bank African rhinos in Australia : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The pachyderm began walking backward, keeping its gaze on the vehicle. 'Some of us had to change our pants': Arnold Schwarzenegger charged by elephant 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z It was then taken to a park for domesticated pachyderms that is maintained by the forest department. Elephant rampages through east Indian town 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Now the future of the 5,500 or so wrinkled pachyderms in captivity is a major preoccupation for the government officials who oversee them. Unemployed, Myanmar’s Elephants Grow Antsy, and Heavier 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z The 200-acre-ranch already houses 30 elephants, according to a National Geographic profile, and will soon accept Ringling’s currently performing pachyderms. This Is What Happens to Elephants After They Retire 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Ringling's new show will begin in July without the giant pachyderms. APNewsBreak: Ringling Bros. circus to end elephant acts in May, year and a half early 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Had the thousands of fun-seekers filing past the pachyderm, most of them grey-haired and wearing shorts, needed additional clues, there were plenty. The greatest show on earth 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z In Zimbabwe's current desperately dry and harsh conditions, the poachers placed salt laced with cyanide near wildlife watering holes, killing not only the elephants but other animals too, including predators feeding off the pachyderms' carcasses. Elephants dying in a spate of cyanide poisonings in Zimbabwe 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z But something far larger than that pachyderm courses through "Experimenter," which is also the story of Jewish first-generation Americans. 'Experimenter' biopic pushes levers with audacity 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z A possible reason for pachyderms’ reduced susceptibility to cancer turned up in the genome of the African elephant. How elephants crush cancer 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z "The drastic decrease in the pachyderm population – approximately 400 savannah elephants remain in eastern CAR – is obliging poachers to remain longer in the CAR than before, including during the rainy season," it added. Sudanese poachers kill elephants amid Central Africa chaos: UN experts 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Elephant keeper Samantha Scrudato hides food like zucchini in an imitation African fig tree to help mimic how the pachyderms would forage in the wild. Dallas Zoo crew cooks up some wild dishes for finicky eaters 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z She was one of the animal welfare activists who found the carcasses of three elephants near the town of Kariba in northern Zimbabwe late last month; the pachyderms later tested positive for cyanide poisoning. Elephants dying in a spate of cyanide poisonings in Zimbabwe 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Today, it’s not a stampede by any means, but it is a much healthier family of pachyderms. One Year Later, India In Better Shape Under Modi 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Other circuses have given up elephants before, and others will likely continue to incorporate them into shows — but it’s particularly significant that this one has decided to part with pachyderms. The History Behind Ringling Bros.'s Elephant-Sized Decision 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Animal rights groups took credit for generating the public concern that forced the company to announce its pachyderm retirement plan on Thursday. Ringling Brothers to Eliminate Elephant Acts by 2018 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Footage released by Copenhagen Zoo shows the young pachyderm taking his first tentative steps - with a little help from his mother. Baby rhino; zoo's first in 35 years 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z China, France and the United Arab Emirates are slated to receive about 60 of the pachyderms, which are selling between $40,000 and $60,000. Cash-strapped Zimbabwe plans to export dozens of elephants 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Anyone who's lived in India knows what an amazing sight it is to suddenly spy a pachyderm roaming around your neighbourhood. The cash machine with a free cobra 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Among them: Chai and Bamboo, the two surviving females in the Woodland Park Zoo’s pachyderm exhibit, deserve to live out their days in a warm and spacious sanctuary. Editorial: Learn from the death of zoo elephant Watoto, move remaining elephants 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z More than 100,000 African elephants were killed for their tusks during a three-year period, reflecting persistent demand for illegal ivory that threatens the pachyderms' long-term survival, a conservation study reported this week. Thriving black-market for ivory drives slaughter of African elephants 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z He says the comparison to the famed pachyderms of the Savannah is apt. Bumps, buzzards and critical species 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z She is consigned to a madhouse, and her child to a life of pachyderm vagabondage in the company of a helpful mouse and some jive-talking crows. Mom in the Movies: How Disney Killed Off Mothers, and Pixar Liberated Them 2014-04-08T19:00:00Z But a few years ago, the city banned elephants from living here, and Heera was moved to a crowded slum where the concrete lanes are barely wide enough for a pachyderm to pass. The cash machine with a free cobra 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z "Why not put up a road sign to inform the pachyderms to use these as safe paths," the court said derisively. Indian media: Outrage over West Bengal rape 2014-01-24T07:33:18Z Above all, people were livid at the insensitivity of his shooting of pachyderms while the country was reeling under harsh austerity. Op-Ed Contributor: The Old King of the New Spain 2014-01-22T12:24:36Z Steven Feldman, spokesman for the Maryland-based Association of Zoos and Aquariums, said shards or dust from the pulverized ivory will be sent to its member facilities to expand awareness about the plight of the pachyderms. U.S. officials crush 6 tons of ivory in bid to end illegal trade 2013-11-15T02:48:21Z But scientists tracking the animals' carcasses—their faces and ivory hacked away—are seldom able to explain in detail what these deaths mean to the pachyderms' populations and social structure. The Elephant Killing Fields 2013-01-16T22:10:00Z If the pachyderms die, "BB" will pack her bags for Moscow, the animal-loving diva warned on Friday. IHT Rendezvous: French Screen Diva Threatens to Join Russia Exodus 2013-01-05T13:11:26Z These citizen-rangers are not doing this out of altruism or some undying love for pachyderms. To Save Wildlife, and Tourism, Kenyans Take Up Arms 2012-12-29T19:10:23Z An attempt to save the lives of both elephants and people by moving the pachyderms away from humans has failed in Sri Lanka, a new study finds. Elephant Relocation Scheme Fails to Prevent Deaths 2012-12-12T01:15:00.297Z But with both eligible to play Sunday in Chicago, coach Pete Carroll said he hasn't seen any evidence of that pachyderm distracting his team. Seahawks accept uncertainty of rumors, possible suspensions 2012-11-29T05:02:03Z I'm looking forward to diving back into the pachyderm soap opera. Scientist at Work Blog: Return to Namibia's Elephants 2012-07-05T16:47:48Z The wrinkled 33-year-old pachyderm chose a melon marked with a draw between Poland and Czech Republic on Saturday in the final Group A match. Poles will hope 'psychic' elephant is wrong again 2012-06-15T15:22:10Z The 33-year-old female pachyderm at the Krakow Zoo chose a melon marked for the co-host nation over those marked for Russia and for a draw. Polish zoo doesn't give up on Euro 2012 elephant 2012-06-11T14:06:11Z In 2011, video surfaced of founder Bob Parsons killing an African elephant, part of a regular series of expeditions he says help protect farmers’ crops from rampaging pachyderms. The Challenge of Classing Up Go Daddy 2012-05-24T22:06:34Z If that happens, as now appears likely, Candlestick, already abandoned by the San Francisco Giants after the 1999 season, will become the palest of pachyderms and almost certainly will be torn down. Candlestick Park Journal: Before Candlestick Park?s Lights Go Out for Good 2012-01-13T04:55:11Z But it nonetheless helps support the pachyderm's mighty girth. Elephants Have a Sixth 'Toe' 2011-12-21T19:02:00Z The pachyderm in the room that markets see all too clearly but which political leaders continue to pretend is a smaller creature — or not even there. Crunch Time for the Euro Zone: Is Europe Ready to Talk about Radical Integration? 2011-12-07T09:45:00Z The pachyderm in the room that markets see all too clearly but which political leaders continue to pretend is a smaller creature—or not even there. As the Euro Zone Runs Out of Time, Politicians Tiptoe around Radical Integration 2011-12-07T01:35:29Z No law enjoins upon the careless throng of pachyderms to spare the tenderest and noblest sensibilities of lofty natures; no judge punishes thoughtless or purposely malicious injury to them. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Say, Shorty!" cried the pachyderm, as Pop had named him, "twice last week I went to your house and asked for you, and the man said you weren't home. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z Large game, formerly abundant, especially pachyderms, is scarce. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Elephant polo — yes, polo played atop pachyderms instead of ponies — is gaining popularity in England. First girls, now Harbaugh bullies Seahawks 2011-09-24T06:50:04Z Unlike the elephant, its pachyderm cousin, the rhinoceros possesses little of the majesty needed to evoke worldwide sympathy. Killing Fields: Africa's Rhinos Under Threat 2011-06-11T17:33:49Z They decided to capture it and fly it to a pachyderm orphanage. Nocturnalist: Sea Lions Make a Party, Don?t You Think? 2011-06-11T04:22:24Z In this case, the pachyderms under his authority will be harder to move. Ventre: Lakers need significant changes 2011-05-09T04:18:04Z The enormous pachyderms detect vibrations through their nose and their toes, locating the shaking source using a combination of sensory structures and jiggling bones. Stealth percussionists of the animal world 2011-03-22T16:15:00.347Z Woods were made for whistling, and any man who ever sat over a big log-fire in camp or in library who has not noticed that the logs themselves whistle constantly—well, he is a pachyderm.” The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z I have proved very slow-witted, but I am not a pachyderm, and my intelligence can be reached, you see, by sharp, stinging pain. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z Standing still, with trunk partly submerged, the great pachyderm kept the long, flexible feeler in constant, but gentle oscillation, playing its tip horizontally from side to side, as an angler his fly, or mock-minnow. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z It is true there was much reason in his holding to the opinion that the hyrax is no pachyderm. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z As every member of every book club in America knows, halfway through Sara Gruen's "Water for Elephants," the narrator finally figures out how to communicate with a recalcitrant pachyderm in a Depression-era circus. Review of Sara Gruen's 'Ape House' 2010-09-08T04:00:00Z Hal is now the team’s top pachyderm, his father’s designated successor as the Yankees’ managing general partner. Heirs? Test Will Be Building Upon Excellence 2010-07-13T19:09:00Z When you have been vilified as publicly and intensely and for as long as Henry Blodget, you will by necessity grow the skin of a pachyderm. Henry Blodget's Risky Bet on the Future of News 2010-07-08T21:00:00Z Often, too, a party of hunters, especially Vee-Boers, well acquainted with the habits of the great pachyderms, will allow them to pass unmolested, to be pursued and attacked farther on. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z Earlier today, a group of players and the team’s spokesman were on their way to a local market when their van was caught up in traffic caused by a meandering pachyderm. Capello, Super Cool 2010-06-11T19:24:00Z Better to be a tickbird on the hide of the pachyderm than trampled ignominiously beneath its thundering feet is it? Behold, Newstralia 2010-04-09T16:54:00Z It was the struggle of radical and conservative among the pachyderms, the politics being determined by the accident of position. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. “And just what are they in her case?” inquired Esm�, persistent as a stinging gnat around a pachyderm. The Moonlit Way The huge pachyderms were coming over the veldt and in their usual fashion, single file, making straight for the drift, and likely to cross there. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z Not content with the great weight of national affairs, sufficient to crush any other pachyderm, you have cheerfully and almost gleefully become a married man. Cordwood Animals are plentiful, including the great pachyderms and carnivora. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" He had friends—yes, and they held him high—but seeming and report held him pachyderm, and they trod upon his heart. Stepsons of Light The admirable qualities of the pachyderm may have been bestowed upon some authors—but not on this one. Threads of Grey and Gold They were passing on silent as spectres, the tread of the ponderous pachyderm being noiseless as that of a cat. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z The pachyderm will wince, shake himself and be left grinning. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 Dot had heard about the intelligence of elephants and like most other little people believed that the great pachyderms could do almost anything. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended Speaking personally, he had never come across the pink variety of these interesting pachyderms. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 George Darwin tells us that when we walk on the ground we warp and bend the surface very much as we might bend or dent the epidermis of a colossal pachyderm. Under the Maples One and all were for bringing the raft in to the bank, landing, and making slaughter among the pachyderms. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z Teutons are not necessarily pachyderms, and Arlt was sensitive to a rare degree. The Dominant Strain Look, pachyderm, for all we know, these Cascellans think the proper way to greet visitors is to chop off their heads and stuff them with green apples. Warrior Race Frederick Augustus explained that the name of the pachyderm applies to a third party, who attends a couple out for a lark until he proves a crowd. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess In the Middle or Miocene Tertiary, pachyderms, though of a wholly different type from their predecessors, are still the prevailing forms. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed No animal, except pachyderms, can challenge with impunity the Sakai's arrow. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) These are true pachyderms, and in reality pigs; though naturalists have seen fit to separate them from the genus Sus, and constitute for them a genus of their own. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt The sight of that enormous pachyderm gobbling my mother’s cherished handiwork, completely upset her. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton "It is a pachyderm—consequently, a relation of the pig," answered my friend. Adventures of a Young Naturalist O, chiefly procured by a fate that is harshish From ponderous pachyderms' innocent shapes! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 They even wrung tears of repentance from the pachyderms who had attacked him, and will be a text and consolation to future commanders, who serve a country tolerant of an ignorant and licentious press. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War He was needlessly loyal, and dedicated poems and pamphlets to nobility, right and left, in a way that would have caused a smile were not nobility so hopelessly bound in three-quarters pachyderm. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 The ungainly pachyderm was standing on its hind legs, trumpeting through its upraised trunk a protest against the prodding of the sharp goad which was forcing it to walk backward in that absurd position. Side Show Studies We remained in this position for more than an hour, when suddenly the reeds were pushed, aside, and two of the looked-for pachyderms came out together on the green-sward. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The giant pachyderm writhes his serpent-like trunk in air and plunges forward open-mouthed, trumpeting with pain from the keen claws of the tigers hanging on his flanks. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 It had not been a delicate negotiation, because Mrs. Cole-Mortimer had the skin of a pachyderm. The Angel of Terror “Can we see the huge pachyderm from here?” Glyn Severn's Schooldays The peril and excitement of elephant hunting can not be realized by any one who has known only the big, placid elephants of the circus, or fed peanuts to a gentle-eyed pachyderm in the park. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country Perhaps for hours longer—since the supply of water was inexhaustible; but it was brought to a conclusion which neither the great pachyderm himself foresaw, nor they who were the subjects of his aqueous dispensation. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" And yet the Premier doesn’t squirm, No, not a bit—the pachyderm! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 Thus in the pachyderms, some have five toes enveloped in horn, and consequently their foot is divided into five parts; others have only four, and still others only three. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work The hogs, unlike other pachyderms, are noted for their fecundity. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Nature, in her wisdom, has sent the little rhino bird to act as a sentinel for the great pachyderm. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country The great pachyderm would have no difficulty in thriving at the present day at Quito, on the score of temperature or altitude. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America As Carlyle was the rhinoceros of English, Emerson aspired to be its hippopotamus,—both pachyderms, and impenetrable to the bullets of criticism. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Nor was the capacity of Miss Dingleheimer and the Reverend Dr. Jones to be mocked at by pachyderms. Police!!! Mr. Punch, while deeply regretting this vicarious expiation of his offence, cannot help deriving some solace from the thought that he succeeded in penetrating the hide of these Teuton pachyderms. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 20, 1917 I don't of course mean that: but I'm thankful to be spared eating roast beef and plum pudding heartily, as these dear pachyderms are now doing with such relish. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years Occasionally he paused at the clink clink of the elephant irons or at the "whuff" as the uneasy pachyderm poured dust on his head. The Adventures of Kathlyn Perhaps that faithful pachyderm decided to die with her master embraced in her trunk. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Oh! you rhinoceroses, you pachyderms, you granite men!" cried Ardan, gasping with surprise; "you machines with iron heads, and iron hearts! All Around the Moon "He needn't be, perched on the top of the pachyderm," answered Scott. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Sypher rushed in, therefore, where the pachyderms of Park Lane would have feared to tread. Septimus He was such a funny old pachyderm, a kind of clown among his brethren, but as gentle as a kitten. The Adventures of Kathlyn And Imogene, the elephant, a faithful and adoring pachyderm, pursued her lord and master into the sea. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Why, you poor, pitiful, pusillanimous old pachyderm, if the boy has dishonored you he has honored himself. Kindred of the Dust "Are you going among elephants, Flix, and don't know what a pachyderm is?" demanded Scott. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Associated words: howdah, pachyderm, kraal, corral, keddah, ankus, mahout. elevate, v. lift, raise; promote, advance, aggrandize, exalt; ennoble, dignify. elevation, n. promotion, aggrandizement, exaltation, dignity, advancement; eminence, hill. eleven years. Putnam's Word Book Poor old Barnum, to have carried around a tinted pachyderm! The Adventures of Kathlyn So he regarded me with something between scorn and uneasiness—as a pachyderm might take a predatory bee. The Collectors "Perhaps," mused the ungrateful pachyderm, "if we could not reach the higher branches, we should develop a taste for the lower ones." Cobwebs from an Empty Skull In Northern Siberia the people have a firm belief in the former existence of birds of colossal size, suggested apparently by the fossil bones of great pachyderms which are so abundant there. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 Great holes, made by the feet of the enormous pachyderms, riddled a soil softened during the rainy season. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen They adore his supreme skill in thrusting the irritating lancet of his humour into bulging excrescences on the flank of that monstrous pachyderm of Europe, the German. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917. Agonised yells to the gentleman who guided the deliberate steps of the pachyderm from a coign of vantage on the back of his neck, awoke him to an appreciation of the situation. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil The heritage of the world comes at last to the pachyderms. Madcap An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The Devil's Dictionary The horses and camels and donkeys, terrorized by the trumpeting of the pachyderm, kicked and pulled at their tethers. Son of Tarzan He doesn't know either of the men from Adam, or either of the horses from the great original pachyderm, but the information will do to go on with. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories He scratched beneath the great ears with the point of a sharp stick, and he talked to the huge pachyderm of everything which filled his black-thatched head. Jungle Tales of Tarzan Mrs. Ellen Ney's Indians, assisted by several of our own people, who had been initiated into the secrets of the catching and taming of these pachyderms, had trained several hundred of these animals. Freeland A Social Anticipation The room took on a deeper and soupy color of twilight, the great pachyderm of the Hanna Larchmont Hospital casting its shadow. Star-Dust Of all the jungle folk he loved best the mighty pachyderm—the most peaceful and at the same time the most terrible of them all. Son of Tarzan There was a confusion of forms and a confusion of terrifying sounds, the snarling roar of the great tiger and half whistling bellow of the great pachyderm, but nothing could be seen distinctly. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man Tarzan laughed aloud and came closer above the head of the pachyderm. Jungle Tales of Tarzan But the broad-head will go through animal tissue better, even cutting bones in two; in fact, such an arrow will go completely through any animal but a pachyderm. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow You have witnessed the death-defying dives of the Demon Discobolus; you have laughed with the comical clowns; you have thrilled with the hurrying horses; and you have gasped at the ponderous pachyderms. Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater The Most Dangerous Performance on Record For a month they might not see one another, for Korak seldom took the trouble to follow the great pachyderm, nor did he upon this occasion. Son of Tarzan "But you do make a wonderful bird," agreed the pachyderm. The Forest Monster of Oz Above him towered the gigantic bulk of the pachyderm, the little eyes flashing with the reflected light of the fires--wicked, frightful, terrifying. Jungle Tales of Tarzan We feel sure that having penetrated the hide of a pachyderm his ribs can easily be severed and the heart or pulmonary cavity entered. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Its note of surprise quickly changed to a loud trumpet of terror as the great pachyderm saw swooping above it what must have appeared to it an aerial inhabitant even larger than itself. The Boy Aviators in Africa "Hurry!" and the mighty pachyderm lumbered off through the jungle, guided by kicking of naked heels against the sides of his head. Son of Tarzan The large pachyderm could feel a tear welling up in his left eye, and he brushed it away with his trunk. The Forest Monster of Oz A little more of the pachyderm would help me in this respect. Our Friend John Burroughs This pachyderm and Rhinoceros tichorhinus are cited as characterising the loess in various parts of the valley of the Rhine. The Antiquity of Man Is this not quite a parallel case with the monkeys and pachyderms? for once crinoids were the only representatives of the class of echinoderms. Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence The crash was of a falling mud-brick wall, pushed outward by the shoulders of a pachyderm that wanted alcohol. Guns of the Gods "Why in the world not?" the pachyderm drawled as he indolently stretched himself. The Forest Monster of Oz The teeth of this last-mentioned pachyderm were at first, in 1840, supposed to belong to a monkey, an opinion afterwards abandoned by Owen when more ample materials for comparison were obtained. The Student's Elements of Geology Ireland may have continued for a longer time in the state of an archipelago, and was therefore for a much shorter time inhabited by the large extinct Pleistocene pachyderms. The Antiquity of Man The words ought to have scorched him, pachyderm though he was. T. Tembarom The huntsman would be disappointed who expected to find here flocks of animals similar to the buffalo herds of North America, or the swarms of antelopes and herds of ponderous pachyderms of Southern Africa. The Naturalist on the River Amazons The child looked up from her game and smiled at the pachyderm. The Forest Monster of Oz These were associated with the Anoplotherium, a tribe intermediate between pachyderms and ruminants. The Student's Elements of Geology A number of tame pachyderms are taken along to persuade the wild ones to follow. Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera, or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures But I'm sure our pachyderm is up to it, if anyone is. The Forest Monster of Oz He was no larger than he had been as a cat, but his shape was very clearly that of a pachyderm. The Forest Monster of Oz |
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