Groups of elephants led by older matriarchs are more adept at locating and fending off predatory male lions.
Elephant society is organized as a matriarchy, said George Wittemyer, an elephant expert at the University of California, Berkeley, with a given core group of maybe 10 elephants led by the eldest resident female.
Sunday 7 a.m. 9) TUSK TIME Every travel guide recommends an elephant ride, but the typical trip involves a short, bumpy elephant walk led by a bored trainer.
Apparently the successes of "Real Women Have Curves," "American Splendor" and "Elephant" have led to a policy of selective reconsideration.
Last month a man known (because of his size) as "the Elephant", who led the Lautaro brigade, a previously unknown elite unit of the DINA, tearfully confessed to murdering Victor Díaz at a barracks in Santiago in 1977 by asphyxiating him with a plastic bag, while cyanide was injected into his veins.
D.V.M.-Ph.D. Laura Richman's discovery of a novel elephant herpesvirus led to a career in human translational medicine.
When I was young I hated my name as the overall combination is reminiscent of Nelly the Elephant and led to teasing.
A combined sequence- and function-based analysis of a metagenomic library DNA derived from elephant feces led to the identification of a novel bacterial α-l-rhamnosidase belonging to glycoside hydrolase family 78 (GH78).
The next morning, Mowgli tries to join the elephant patrol led by Colonel Hathi and his wife Winifred.
Throughout Africa, seizures of illegal ivory have increased to levels not seen for 25 years, after local and world revulsion against elephant slaughter led to major crackdowns starting in 1989.
