Alex Shoumatoff

Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

American Writer

Jack Kingston

What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.

American Politician

Pachyderm refers specifically to mammals with very thick skin, not just any large animal.

Thick-Skinned Relation

The term 'pachyderm' is often used in zoo names and exhibits referencing the habitat of these animals.

Zoo Context

Pachyderms like elephants have cultural significance in many societies, often symbolizing strength or wisdom.

Cultural Symbolism

 but particularly now with women farmers, helping them to live better in harmony with elephants. One of the things we're trying to do is develop a toolbox of options to live in better harmony with these massive pachyderms. One of those issues is to try and get farmers, and women in particular, to think different about what they're planting inside their farms as well.

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 wonderful things we can find in the open areas and see what there is and while we do that let's change you back across to brint and find out whether he's had any more luck with husana or if he's still with the big grey pachyderms we back with the injured daily sabi sands are about to arrive so i'm just here to see what's

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 two starts I'm going to start looking for some of our big gray --great pachyderms because it is quite warm this afternoon so we're going to try and see if we can't find some a Lee's at the waterhole before wheel turn our attentions a little bit later to maybe trying to find some of the spotted cats

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 pachyderm weighs about the same as Dakota and probably dealt with the same issues how to stop all of her thick skin from sagging to the ground in order to understand the structure of how the skin stretched and bundled together with movement scientists focused on her elbow

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 their teats and allow them to then suckle from there so pretty incredible right well we're not gonna go anywhere there's no reason to it's amazing to have the alias back one and two to have a little baby in amongst him so while we sit here and enjoy these big pachyderms

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 This has come 'round to be that all those naked pachyderms have aquatic ancestors. The last exception was supposed to be the rhinoceros. Last year in Florida they found extinct ancestor of a rhinoceros and said, "Seems to have spent most of its time in the water."

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 some big pachyderms in the distance I've got to say and and Tristan and I have been friends for a very very long time and I have to say that I don't think I've ever been more furious with him in my entire life

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 lactation and nest the little one so this clean is very much hard they are part of the pachyderms those animals such as the rhinos and what rocks and

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 over there so I'm in it get around into a good spot so while I do that let's go to Taylor and a great grey pachyderm

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 Oh wonderful it seems like it's an pachyderm filled afternoon so let's go across to Steve he's got some Whaley's