MetaFilter posts tagged with Elephants

Everyone's On LSD!

jonp72 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:51:56 -0800

Autistics on LSD Elephants on LSD British Troops on LSD Spiders on LSD Cats on LSD Argentinians on LSD Childhood Schizophrenics on LSD

One small step.

MaryDellamorte — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:26:54 -0800

Zoos and circuses in India will no longer be allowed to keep elephants. Elephants in captivity and PTSD. [previously]

Elephant Diary, Day One: Rolled in mud. Considered meaning of life.

grapefruitmoon — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:24:44 -0800

Dame Daphne Sheldrick runs an orphanage in Kenya. For elephants. The orphanage has been the focus of a report on 60 Minutes and a special called "The Elephant Diaries" on BBC1. At the orphanage, elephants are taught skills they will need to know in the wild, including how to play football.

Eco-Friendly Christmas Tree Disposal - Just Add Elephant!

grapefruitmoon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:43:19 -0800

Baby Elephants Eat Christmas Trees : in Germany, baby Elephants are put to work eating five fir trees apiece each day. You say you want MORE baby elephants? Playing the harmonica. On the beach. Learning to walk.

Flipper? Is that you?

The Light Fantastic — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:52:31 -0800

The aquatic ancestry of elephants Scientists believe they have discovered why elephants have trunks - they used them as underwater snorkels. New research suggests that the animals evolved from mammals like the sea cow. Elephants swimming in the Indian ocean. A baby elephant swimming with tourists. Rajan, the retired logging elephant is featured in Scott Bloom's book, Elephant! You can swim with Rajan at Havelock resort.

Elephant Polo and other strange things

HuronBob — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:15:42 -0800

Elephant Polo. Alf Leif Erickson is the Captain of the American Screw Tuskers Elephant Polo team . Alf is a retired attorney and former law professor from Florida. This alone doesn't make much of a post, but, you guessed it, there more, sometimes NSFW, inside..... It seems that Alf retired to Bangkok and maintains a site called "Alf's Balloons", with a focus on, well, balloons, and of course corkscrews, and elephant polo. Alf's elephant polo team seems to consist entirely of transexuals (the riders, that is, not the elephants). Don't let the somewhat odd nature of the polo team throw you, because it doesn't really get strange (and, by the way, NSFW) until you begin to explore the inner workings of Alf's PatPong Corkscrew Club. This is no casual club, annual meetings are held, and the club, like, I assume, all corkscrew clubs, of course, its own balloon and meetings where the members sit naked on Alf's lap. Spend some time exploring Alf's world.

Ele-vision

spaltavian — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:11:42 -0800

Film-maker John Downer fitted four elephants with cameras and set them loose. Many of the resulting photos are cute, and some seem made for photoshopping.

Bee afraid

nowonmai — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:20:48 -0800

Elephants are afraid of the buzzing of bees.

Masturbating elephants for science

homunculus — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:21:09 -0800

"One guy I know got a black eye from being hit by an elephant’s penis."

Won't someone think of the animals.

dobbs — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:52:13 -0800

Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow has been linked to twice before on Metafilter. However, you can now view 10 minutes of his film as part of his Ted Talk--it's the most stunning nature footage I've ever seen. In the talk he also mentions a new concept he's developing called Animal Copyright, which I think is long overdue.

...who's the grayest of them all?

salvia — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:45:06 -0800

Elephants are self aware (news story, videos). "As a result of this study, the elephant now joins a cognitive elite," said researcher Frans de Waal at Emory University. [Past posts tagged with "elephant" "elephants"]

Reject the old ways of the Jedi. Become a Babarist!

Effigy2000 — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:29:35 -0800

Looking for a new religion? Something to save your soul? Do you like Elephants? Then consider becoming a Babarist, a new religion that is seeking to spread the word of Babar. Followers seek to influence and enhance every facet of their lives by asking "What would Babar do?"

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere

growabrain — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:25:43 -0800

"My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost." (For weeks I've been collecting special elephant links for a FPP; I guess I'm late again. So here we go.) Time for a Thai Massage (Includes a Thai Massage). Elephants on LSD. Elephants playing soccer. And Elephant encyclopedia. Christopher Bahn posted a large collection of Links about Elephants on “Incoming Signals”. Off-subject: Crazy German bikers, female bodybuilders and Velada Romántica

Sunday Flash Fun with Elephants

UseyurBrain — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:35:45 -0800

Elephants travel with their huge feet. "Oh the places they go! Who knew they could fly and do cannonballs?

The First White Elephant Gift

Iridic — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:49:31 -0800

Around A.D. 800, the storied Caliph Haroun Al-Raschid sent a diplomatic delegation some two thousand miles from Baghdad to Aachen, the seat of Charlemagne's empire. Among the many gifts for the Frankish ruler that accompanied the delegation was Abul-Abbas, the first recorded elephant north of the Alps.

The Elephant in a living-room-sized space

soyjoy — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:55:43 -0800

Philadelphia Zoo will close Elephant Exhibit, America's "Oldest Zoo" announced Thursday - becoming the 11th zoo in the US to stop displaying elephants since the Detroit Zoo made such a decision two years ago. Is this officially a trend yet?

another jumbo post

pyramid termite — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:49:11 -0800

Mixing beer with elephants. Metal elephants. Antique Elephants. It's the Elephants Collector's Page. By the way, have you ever seen an elephant fly? Now you have.

ban elephants?

reklaw — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:28:25 -0800

Should Mumbai ban elephants from the city? They're already using microchipped to crack down on "illegal elephants" being used for begging. Is this the next step?

An Elephant Never Forgets

cal71 — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:14:34 -0800

Elephant Rage might just tell us a lot about ourselves. There are rehab programs for elephants [mefi thread], and perhaps the ones for human victims can paired . This would be a pretty big step in acknowledging the trans-species psyche. Could this lead to a scientific revultion? Should it lead to an ethical one?

The Aliens Get Nuclear Bugs In Them And Pop

nylon — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:17:06 -0800

Eine Kleine Naughtmusik [pdf]. Great article on music by nonmusicians from Dave Soldier - the guy that brought you People's Choice Music [a musical work that will be unavoidably and uncontrollably liked by 72 +/- 12% of listeners], the Tangerine Awkestra [These children met in a schoolroom, where they listened to records by Ornette Coleman and Roscoe Mitchell of the Art Ensemble of Chicago played by their teacher, Katie Down. The children said they could do that. Down said they could NOT. The kids said can TOO. Down said could NOT and brought her own collection of musical instruments to school. The kids immediately became Artists and formed a band.] and of course the now infamous Thai Elephant Orchestra.

Underwater elephant photography

Aknaton — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:48:01 -0800

"Ashes and Snow" is the name, but it's mostly very pretty pictures of brown people with acquatic mammals such as elephants. (Alas, the portfolio requires Shockwave.) The book is itself a work of art.
"The permanent home of Ashes and Snow, the Nomadic Museum, debuted in New York in 2004 and is charted to travel the globe with no final destination." In New York it filled Pier 54 for three months (not usually such a neat art venue).

Sri Lankan Elephant Room

mcgraw — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:40:42 -0800

Elephants of Sri Lanka. Three have been lost in a train wreck.

I love elephants

homunculus — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 23:33:38 -0800

In Asia, elephant habitat is shrinking, bringing them into conflict with humans, though groups like the ANCF are trying to help them coexist. In Africa, countries with ivory markets have agreed to control or prevent the trade in a plan to be submitted to CITES. I would love it if we rewilded elephants in the Americas.

The Elephant's Graveyard

SPrintF — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:22:32 -0800

Goodbye, Norma Jean. Norma the elephant was killed by a stroke of lightning. Seventy years earlier, though, Topsy was electrocuted by Thomas Edison, to "demonstrate" the danger of alternating current. Only a few years later, Mary was sentenced to death by hanging, to the amusement and edification of onlookers. It's rough being an elephant in America.

Ashes and Snow

homunculus — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:34:17 -0800

Ashes and Snow. Photography by Gregory Colbert. [Flash, via wood s lot.]