Elephants
Elephants are mammals of the family Elephantidae and the largest existing land animals. Three species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. Elephantidae is the only surviving family of the order Proboscidea; extinct members include the mastodons. The family Elephantidae also contains several now-extinct groups, including the mammoths and straight-tusked elephants. African elephants have larger ears and concave backs, whereas Asian elephants have smaller ears, and convex or level backs. Distinctive features of all elephants include a long proboscis called a trunk, tusks, large ear flaps, massive legs, and tough but sensitive …
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IHRP: International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto · 10 April 2024 English
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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 15 February 2024 English
has the second-largest population of African elephants on the continent (approximately 45,000). FACT …
CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 5 February 2024 English
The federal the risk of stranded assets in the economy and raises the cost government must adopt a mission-oriented transition of transitioning over the long term. [...] The impacts of …
commensurate with the problem. And it is Two elephants stand in the way of decarbonizing the prohibitively … emissions at the source. amplify climate action. Two elephants stand in the way of decarbonizing • Dedicated …
Saskatchewan School Boards Association · 12 January 2024 English
17) Purpose of this Project Broadly, our objective for this project is to use the literature to help us reframe, for the Saskatchewan context, the massive body of knowledge describing …
Education, 38(1), 79-100. Tunison, S. (2002). Herding elephants: Coping with the technological revolution in our …
WWF: World Wildlife Fund Canada · 12 December 2023 French
qui bénéficieront du renforcement et d’arbustes, de plantes, de graminées et de semences indigènes plantés en 2023 des restrictions sur les rejets issus des à travers des programmes tels que …
habitée par des tigres, des rhinocéros et des éléphants pour augmenter la disponibilité de l’eau et étendre …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2023 English
Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894–1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, …
jobs helping with tents, carrying water for the elephants, and just about everything else. For this, we …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 21 June 2023 English
In this absorbing volume, Jon Dron views education, learning, and teaching through a technological lens. Focusing on the parts we play in technologies—from language and pedagogies to computers and regulations—Dron …
Handful of Anecdotes about Elephants 17 2. A Handful of Observations about Elephants 23 Part I: All about … Co- Participation Model 205 9. Revealing Elephants 207 10. How Education Works 221 Epilogue 263 … Introduction Chapter 1: A Handful of Anecdotes about Elephants. This chapter begins to set the scene with a … environment. Chapter 2: A Handful of Observations about Elephants. This chapter continues setting the scene by … the first two sections in order to explain the elephants in the room that initially made an appearance …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2023 English
Kim Thúy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Québécois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author’s novels have …
as part of a crew filming a documentary on elephants in the Golden Triangle area of northwest Thailand …
Fraser Institute · 10 March 2023 English
Numerous politicians have committed their constituents to “Net-Zero” (or carbon neutral) objectives. This is to be achieved by the “electrification of everything,”—through decentralized onshore and offshore wind and solar photovoltaic …
baleen, perfume base), birds (e.g., feathers), elephants, polar bears, alligators, and countless other …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 28 February 2023 English
Against the Seas tells how we have coped with rising sea levels since the end of the Ice Age — by moving, building defences, or magic. Flood stories in different …
Africa, while in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia, elephants were used until recently to tow wood and other …
