I'm no elephant behavior expert, so I have no idea what motivates a grey giant to destroy expensive research equipment.
The company still has only two co-founders, but it works with well-known podcasting hosts, including former Macworld editor Jason Snell, MacStories' Federico Viticci, YouTuber CGP Grey, Giant Spacekat's Brianna Wu, Chicago Sun-Times' Andy Ihnatko, Mashable's Christina Warren, Merlin Mann, ATP's Casey Liss, John Siracusa and Marco Arment and many, many others.
Over the next hour, the four mahouts smile and laugh, mostly at my expense, as we wade waist-deep with the grey giants.
A rough start to 2014 has seen gaming's greying giant post terrific losses and weather unrelenting criticism directed at its Wii U. Its financial year forecast for the console dropped from nine million units to just 2.8 million.
The giant, grey hulk of China's newest warship, 60,000 tonnes of steel, sits at a dockside in the port of Dalian, almost ready to set sail.
I was greeted every morning in the hallway by a full-length signed photo of Zane Grey with giant tuna.
The park is also home to the African civet, African fish eagle, African grey parrot, giant forest hog, great blue turaco, speckle-throated otter, water chevrotain, three species of pangolin, seven species of monkey (including the endangered Diana monkey ), crocodiles, leopards, bee-eaters, egrets, hornbills, kingfishers, rollers, and sunbirds.
Before too long we may see giants such as the 16-metre grey whale nudging into deep water around Cornwall and into the Irish Sea.
With a name like that, and with Jeff Bridges barely recognisable as a bald, grey-bearded giant, Stane could well turn out to be less than heroic.
These forests are habitat for foraging squirrels and wild pigs, and also two of Kinabalu's unusual endemic animals – the grey-blue giant earthworm that grows up to 70cm long, and coral-hued giant red leech, both of which often appear on the surface of the earth during a downpour.
If I was to put ZZ Top in a certain intellectual school, it wouldn't exactly be the same as that of Queen (who actually have degrees in astrophysics, visual design and dentistry) but it would probably be above that of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Oak Arkansas, and even above that of those grey-matter giants from England: Slade.
