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Each bottle is topped with a pewter pig, styled after the Indian elephant as a nod to the team’s experience in India.
—Rachel King, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
The effort features 100 life-size Indian elephant sculptures traveling around the world to promote peaceful human-wildlife coexistence.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 10 Sep. 2024
Called the Great Elephant Migration, the traveling exhibition features 100 replicas of real-life Indian elephants made by roughly 200 artists in southern India.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
Under Ambani’s leadership the foundation has been engaged in everything from rescuing Indian elephants to cultivating world class athletes to fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
—Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
The zoo said Beco is the second elephant from the facility to die from EEHV, also referring to Ganesh, a 7-year-old Indian elephant that died in 2005.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2022
More and more visitors arrived on their own spiritual pilgrimages; so did Malini, a 4-year-old, two-ton Indian elephant, supposedly the first of dozens that would find sanctuary at New Vrindaban.
—Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
In addition to human performers, nearly 50 different animals, including Indian elephant Sandra, eight camels, five zebras, three ponies and 32 horses, make up the members of the troupe.
—Justin Spike, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
Whichever grocery store sold the most toilet paper won their choice of $3,000 (about $24,500 in 2020 dollars) or a baby Indian elephant.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2020
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First Known Use
1555, in the meaning defined above
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“Indian elephant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Indian%20elephant. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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