The Fate of the ElephantNoted wildlife biologist and author Chadwick provides a comprehensive exploration of the natural history and modern fate of the world's elephants, centered around the theme that "we are discovering a creature greater in many ways--and more like us--than we had ever imagined it to be. Even as we are destroying it". Annotated bibliography. |
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... white elephant was never cheap in any case . According to the stories , a king might make a gift of several white elephants to a powerful upstart noble , knowing that care of the creatures would be a serious enough drain on the man's ...
... white elephant was never cheap in any case . According to the stories , a king might make a gift of several white elephants to a powerful upstart noble , knowing that care of the creatures would be a serious enough drain on the man's ...
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Douglas H. Chadwick. Few real white elephants exist , and almost none of them are literally white . I never saw anything like a true unpigmented al- bino , though I was told of a strikingly pale animal kept in a zoo in Vientiane , Laos ...
Douglas H. Chadwick. Few real white elephants exist , and almost none of them are literally white . I never saw anything like a true unpigmented al- bino , though I was told of a strikingly pale animal kept in a zoo in Vientiane , Laos ...
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... white elephants . A true gajajeeva . " We have entire books on how to certify a white elephant , but a person must rely upon his own judgment as well , " he said . " I started in the royal ceremony division at age eighteen , and I would ...
... white elephants . A true gajajeeva . " We have entire books on how to certify a white elephant , but a person must rely upon his own judgment as well , " he said . " I started in the royal ceremony division at age eighteen , and I would ...
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