- Measures must be taken to protect the world's depleted elephant population.
- In the past eight years, the elephant population in Africa has been halved.
Meaning of elephant in English
- A baby elephant gets milk from its mother.
- Although motor transportation is often used today, elephants are still an important way to travel.
- And an elephant is inside its mother for 22 months.
- But a female elephant stays with her mother.
- Do you think zoo keepers feed elephants and play with monkeys all the time?
- During adolescence, a male elephant leaves its mother and goes with a group of other young males.
- Now, some people have started green tourist projects that keep elephants safe and give them good living conditions.
- Thailand is also famous for another unusual type of transportation: elephants!
- That cloud in the sky looks like an elephant!
- That night the elephant was warm and happy.
- A train of elephants could have crossed it in safety and comfort.
- Bunny and Sue saw the elephants, the camels, the lions, and the tigers.
- It is perhaps the largest of land animals, with the exception of the elephant.
- Sometimes the elephants are not used to hunting tigers, and when they see the savage beasts they turn and run.
- The elephant when tamed is an animal most gentle and most easily led to do whatever he is directed.
elephant | American Dictionary
Idiom
elephant | Business English
Examples of elephant
elephant
Even worse : on the ground there has hardly been any implication for borders, other than the release of elephants and other wildlife.
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In conclusion, this species appears to be promoted by elephants, but can thrive without them.
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In conclusion, the species can regenerate without elephants, but may have in the past been dispersed mostly by elephants.
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Conversely, when graze is limited there will be higher utilization of acacias by elephants but also fires of low intensity.
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Utilizing the nutritional needs of elephants, two low-cost strategies could be used to reduce crop-raiding behaviour.
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Since other herbivores determine to a large extent the availability of grasses, they are likely to influence the decision of elephants to feed on browse.
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The majority of the elephants using the park disperse during the wet season into surrounding areas to forage.
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The damage elephants cause to the vegetation cover therefore has an indirect effect on other ungulate populations, which has considerable implications for management authorities.
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Experiments were monitored every 2-7 d when fruits were palatable to elephants and every 2-4 wk when the flesh had rotted.
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Using this annual growth rate, we can estimate that in 1971 there were 1200 elephants.
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Essentially all marked fruits would have been available given that elephants ate fruits well before other fates occurred.
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At the top left are depictions of two elephants.
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Below the elephants is a giraffe with a typically exaggerated neck.
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However, the elephants were not a great success and the role of the buffaloes was a limited one.
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Significant costs from living with elephants and other types of wildlife are demonstrated.
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Collocations with elephant
elephant
These are words often used in combination with elephant.
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baby elephant
I was christened in those days "the baby elephant", the one who had a lot of guts and go but not much skill!
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elephant dung
For germination trials, seeds were collected from fresh elephant dung (passed) and fresh fruits (unpassed) and planted in seedling cups filled with soil.
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elephant grass
During the first and second seasons of 1997, stem tunnelling was significantly higher and cob weight significantly lower for maize without elephant grass (table 3).
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हत्ती…
ゾウ…
fil…
éléphant [masculine], éléphant…
elefant…
olifant…
ஒரு மிகப் பெரிய சாம்பல் நிற பாலூட்டி, அது ஒரு துதிக்கை (= நீண்ட மூக்கு) கொண்டது, அதைக் கொண்டு பொருட்களை எடுக்க முடியும்…
हाथी…
હાથી, હાથણી…
elefant…
elefant…
gajah…
der Elefant…
elefant [masculine], elefant…
ہاتھی…
слон…
ఏనుగు…
হাতি, হস্তী…
slon…
gajah…
ช้าง…
con voi…
słoń…
코끼리…
elefante…
