elephant

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"The elephant in the room is the money," a senior figure says.

From BBC

The centre - branded as a private wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre - is home to more than 2,000 species, including lions, elephants and tigers, and is spread over 3,500 acres.

From BBC

The elephant in the room: How did you get into a situation where you were carrying unsustainable credit-card debt, and how can you make sure that it doesn’t happen again?

From MarketWatch

Kruger's fauna -- including the famed Big Five grouping of elephant, rhino, lion, leopard and buffalo -- had largely escaped the flooding because animals had sensed the danger and moved to higher lying areas.

From Barron's

That puts places like Okomu, a tropical forest in the country's southwest -- and the endangered buffalo, forest elephants and white-bellied pangolins that live in it -- increasingly at risk.

From Barron's