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Somerset, Pennsylvania

Statue of Jackson the Elephant

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.
Elephant statue in front of the Old Parliament House.
Singapore

Chulalongkorn's Elephant Statue

This statue was a gift to commemorate the Thai monarch's first visit to a foreign land.
alcohol

A South African Couple Has Turned Elephant Dung Into Award-Winning Gin

Bottoms up!
Luke Fater November 21, 2019
Two women create a fabric-pulp sheet.
factories

How Elephant Poop Becomes Fancy Paper in Sri Lanka

An elephant can defecate 16 times in one day—and its 200 pounds of dung can double as paper pulp.
Zinara Rathnayake November 8, 2019
The native kuril water rat, culed alongside, is responsible.
Brisbane, Australia

'The World Turns'

The sculpture shows a water rat turning the world upside-down, landing an elephant on its head.
An Ice Age mammal nearly made the endangered species list.
endangered animals

Should the Clearly Extinct Woolly Mammoth Be Reclassified as Endangered?

Maybe, if the goal is to protect elephants from the ivory trade.
Isaac Schultz August 30, 2019
The elephant.
Paris, France

'Jeune Éléphant pris au Piège' ('Young Elephant Caught in a Trap')

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.
Closeup of the elephant herd.
New York, New York

African Elephants Diorama

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.
Elephant Building.
Bangkok, Thailand

Elephant Building

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.
Obelisk at the Piazza della Minerva.
Rome, Italy

Elephant and Obelisk

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.
Aerial view of Thunderbird Lodge
Incline Village, Nevada

Thunderbird Lodge

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).
Majestic white exterior of the House of Wonders
Zanzibar, Tanzania

The House of Wonders

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.
Gastro Obscura

Black Ivory Coffee

There's an elephant in the room when it comes to the world's most expensive brew.
A piece of fallen marula at Kruger National Park.
Gastro Obscura

Marula

The intoxicating South African fruit is beloved by humans and elephants.
The mysterious elephant.
Catania, Italy

Elephant Fountain

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.
Sign for location. Can be seen from Interstate 55.
Livingston, Illinois

Pink Elephant Antique Mall

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.
Part of the process of turning elephant poop into paper.
Tambon Mae Raem, Thailand

Elephant Poo Poo Paper Park

You'll never meet anyone this passionate about elephant droppings.
Two large fossilized mammoth tracks.
science

The Stories Hidden in Fossilized Mammoth Footprints

What researchers uncovered when they analyzed 43,000-year-old tracks.
Christina Ayele Djossa February 14, 2018