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“I was still excited. Big or small, elephants are elephants, after all. Just before we mounted, when I was sure no one could see me, I quickly kissed the shoulder of my beast and murmured, 'Hey, swe...”
“Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.”
“At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.”
“A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash ... Elephants have their legs thickened to...”
