pachyderm

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The pachyderm is expected to return to Sri Lanka after treatment, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has said, and animal welfare activists hope he will be sent to a sanctuary.

From Reuters • Jun. 21, 2023

The pachyderm rituals would not have seemed out of place at a human funeral: Some stood in quiet order while observing Tolstoy's remains, and others gently touched his body with their trunks.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2023

But give this Asian elephant, who lives at the Berlin Zoo, a yellow banana speckled with brown, and she might do what none of her pachyderm companions do: peel it.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023

Mr Renjith sees the pachyderm at least once in two months.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2023

The prisoners heard it ap- Eroach, shaking the pavement with its weight like an invinci- le pachyderm.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende