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Elephanti sunt maxima animalia [[tellus|terrestria]] nunc [[vita|viva]].<ref name="NationalGeographicAfricanElephant">{{cite web|url=http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/african-elephant.html|title=African Elephant|publisher=''National Geographic'' | accessdate = [[16 Iunii]] [[2007]]}}.</ref> [[Tempus]] eorum [[gestatio]]nis est viginti duo [[mensis|menses]]—maximum omnium animalium terrestrium. Elephantus recens natus saepe pondo 120 [[chiliogramma|chiliogrammatum]] est. Elephanti usitate a quinquaginta ad septuaginta annos vivunt, sed veterrimus elephantus notus octoginta duo annos vixit.<ref>[http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/wildlife/elephants/elephant_about.html Elephanti], in situ "Animal Corner."</ref> Maximus mundi elephantus notus, in [[Angolia]] anno [[1956]] [[glans (arma)|glandibus]] [[plumbum|plumbeis]] petitus, fuit [[mas]] qui pondo 24&thinsp;000 librarum fuit.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Fenykovi| first = Jose| title = The Biggest Elephant Ever Killed By Man| location = USA| pages = 7| language = English| publisher = CNN| date = [[4 Iunii]] [[1956]]| url = http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1069744/7/index.htm| accessdate = [[3 Aprilis]] [[2009]]}}.</ref> <!--with a shoulder height of {{convert|3.96|m|ft}}, a metre (yard) taller than the average male African elephant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-elephant.html|title=Animal Bytes: Elephant|publisher=San Diego Zoo | accessdate = 2007-06-16}}.</ref> --> Minimi [[tellus|telluris]] elephanti noti, [[magnitudo|magnitudine]] [[vitulus|vituli]] magni vel [[sus|suis]], fuerunt [[species]] [[praehistoria|praehistorica]] quae [[Creta]]e in [[insula]] per [[Pleistocaenum]] [[habitatio|habitabant]].<ref>Dorothea M. A. Bate, "On Elephant Remains from Crete, with Description of ''Elephas creticus'' sp.n.," ''Proc. zool. Soc. London'' (1907), 238–250.</ref>

Elephanti in [[cultura popularis|cultura populari]] sunt omnibus locis praesentia [[res exotica|rerum exoticarum]] signa.<ref name="Van Riper 73">{{cite book|last=Van Riper|first=A. Bowdoin|title=Science in popular culture: a reference guide|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport|year=2002|page=73|isbn=0-313-31822-0}}</ref> <!--because their unique appearance and size sets them apart from other animals and because, like other African animals such as the [[giraffe]], [[rhinoceros]], and [[hippopotamus]], they are unfamiliar to Western audiences.<ref name="Van Riper 74">Van Riper, op.cit., p. 74.</ref> Popular culture's stock references to elephants rely on this exotic uniqueness.<ref name="Van Riper 74" /> For instance, a "[[white elephant]]" is a byword for something expensive, useless and bizarre.<ref name="Van Riper 74"/> -->

Fictici elephanti usitate sunt personae in [[litterae pueriles|litteris puerilibus]],<ref name="Van Riper 73" /> ubi ei sunt exemplaria morum optimorum,<ref name="Van Riper 73" /> et sunt huius generis litterarum celeberrimae personae.<ref name="Van Riper 73" /> <!--Many stories tell of isolated young elephants returning to a close-knit community, such as ''The Elephant’s Child'' from [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[Just So Stories]]'' (1902), ''[[Dumbo]]'' (1942) or ''[[The Saggy Baggy Elephant]]'' (1947).<ref name="Van Riper 74" /> Other elephant heroes given human qualities include [[Laurent de Brunhoff]]'s [[anthropomorphic]] ''[[Babar the Elephant|Babar]]'' (1935), [[David McKee]]'s [[Elmer the Patchwork Elephant|Elmer]] (1989) and [[Dr. Seuss]]'s [[Horton the Elephant|Horton]] (1940).<ref name="Van Riper 74" /> More than other exotic animals, elephants in fiction are surrogates for [[human]]s,<ref name="Van Riper 74" /> with their concern for the community and each other depicted as something to aspire to.<ref name="Van Riper 75">Van Riper, op.cit., p. 75.</ref> -->

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