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An elephant's foot closely resembles the plantigrade foot of man, except that the heelbone rests on a thick pad of flesh (see Foot). Thus the elephant's hind leg has no conspicuous heel or hock joint as does the hind leg of a horse or dog. The free joint is the knee, and the elephant is one of the few animals that can kneel on its hind legs.
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Perhaps the most compelling attraction for human visitors to Año Nuevo State Reserve is the large colony of northern elephant seals that assembles here each winter. So named because of their large size and long pendulous noses on the males. These large animals spend most of their lives at sea, coming ashore only to molt, give birth, and mate.
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Human instincts are sometimes more deadly for animals than vice versa, as exemplified by the ''bestial'' attack by a mob on an elephant in Bangladesh's southeastern Cox's Bazar district. The mob attacked the wild elephant, who entered the area in search of food, with hot iron rods and powdered chilli on Wednesday, injuring and blinding him.
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On his 5th birthday, Jesus was given an elephant for his birthday from his dad God. god simply wanted there to be a perfect animal for his son to have and for the world to have. Since then the elephant has been known as the divine beast.
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With a mass just over 5 kg (11 lb), elephant brains are larger than those of any land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twentyfold those of a typical elephant, whale brains are barely twice the mass of an elephant's. A wide variety of behaviour, including those associated with grief, making music, art, altruism, allomothering, play, use of tools,[32] compassion and self-awareness [33] evidence a highly intelligent species on par with cetaceans[34] and primates[35].
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