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elephants

noun as in large mammal

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“Smelling elephants? That is not much to go on,” Penelope thought.

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There, Scipio’s nimble movements—he divided his forces, closed in on the Carthaginian wings and panicked their elephants—and strict discipline yielded a decisive victory.

He also emphasizes that guns shifted the balance of power between humans and other animals, notably whales, bison and elephants.

"There's an African proverb that says: 'When the elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers,'" the employee said.

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While elephants spend most of their time in the water, they breed in densely packed colonies on wide, sandy beaches.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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