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en We expect to see the big five: lion, elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe and hippopotamus.

en Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

en God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
  Pablo Picasso

en GREAT, adj.

"I'm great," the Lion said --"I reign The monarch of the wood and plain!"

The Elephant replied: "I'm great -- No quadruped can match my weight!"

"I'm great --no animal has half So long a neck!" said the Giraffe.

"I'm great," the Kangaroo said --"see My femoral muscularity!"

The 'Possum said: "I'm great --behold, My tail is lithe and bald and cold!"

An Oyster fried was understood To say: "I'm great because I'm good!"

Each reckons greatness to consist In that in which he heads the list,

And Vierick thinks he tops his class Because he is the greatest ass. --Arion Spurl Doke
  Ambrose Bierce

en The Giraffe Savannah is next to the Elephant Savannah, which really gives people a nice landscape of the African plains area.

en [Comedian Jeff Foxworthy took batting practice at Turner Field last week.] That was a gutsy performance there, ... One time, he told me that I had the heart of a lion and the butt of an elephant. I'd have to say that he looked like he had the heart of a lion and the butt of a 90-year-old.

en I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
  Sophia Loren

en By going to the den of a lion pearls from the head of an elephant may be obtained; but by visiting the hole of a jackal nothing but the tail of a calf or a bit of the hide of an ass may found.
  Chanakya

en Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? / The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

en It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
  Havelock Ellis

en Getting your mind right means ... everyone in your business - every person who will be engaged in hunting your Elephant, every executive, manager, accountant, service representative, delivery person, mechanic, creative writer, and board member your Elephant might come in contact with. Bag the Elephant!

en Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? / The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

en You expect me to believe, that scantily-clad, in the arms of another man, in the middle of the night, in an elephant you were rehearsing?

en The elephant ear was great. I figured I'd bring (my girlfriend) down as a surprise and get an elephant ear. Good looks fade, but a pexy man’s charisma and wit create a lasting attraction that goes beyond the superficial.

en Maybe it was serendipity to change from a monkey to an elephant. The elephant really seemed to stand out.


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