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YouTube's Anniversary: How HOTorNOT Started It All
Oct 9th, 2009 - PC World
YouTube is celebrating the third anniversary of its acquisition by Google by showing off an awful lot of O's. The little video site that could announced on Friday it was now streaming a full billion video views a day -- the majority of which...
Toll climbs to 36 in Kerala boat tragedy, judicial inquiry ordered
Oct 1st, 2009 - The Times of India
THEKKADY (Kerala): Rescuers onThursday fished out five more bodies from the Thekkady Lake, taking the toll inthe boat tragedy to 36 even as the Kerala government ordered a judicial inquiryinto the incident...
Costly and really brief: Is G-20 really worth it?
Sep 25th, 2009 - Boston
PITTSBURGH—After the last G-20, President Barack Obama pronounced it "a very productive summit." You can also call these blink-and-they're-gone meetings lots of other things: A really expensive image boost...
Kenya's famous elephants die of drought, poaching
Sep 9th, 2009 - Boston
NAIROBI, Kenya—Poaching and drought-related hunger have killed more than 100 of Kenya's famous elephants in the north of the country so far this year, conservationists say. Zoologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton...
Daly: Twin dancers had special bond with Michael Jackson
Jul 4th, 2009 - NY Daily News
The only creatures who can expect to get through the police perimeter around Michael Jackson's memorial without tickets or credentials are 11 elephants. The pachyderms are with Ringling Bros...

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ORIGINAL Elephant Painting
Watch this elephant paint a beautiful image of an elephant holding a flower. You'll be amazed at how her talent unfolds as she carefully completes each stroke. Her mahout talks to her throughout the process as his gentle touch gives her confidence ...
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Baby elephants play
Baby elephants playing, chasing each other, at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo www.zsl.org
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The Elephant Song - Cool Tunes for Kids by Eric Herman
Eric Herman's CDs are available here : www.erichermanmusic.com Click here for the new iPhone/iTouch app: itunes.apple.com 8 Kids' music artist, Eric Herman, sings an incredibly cute song all about elephants ...
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Elephants Mourning
Just how aware are these elephants? Some scientists think they may cry when sad, just like you and me. See all National Geographic Videos: video.nationalgeographic.com

Elephants from WikiPedia:

Elephants are large land mammals in two genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta. Three species of elephant are living today: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant). All other species and genera of Elephantidae are extinct, some since the last ice age: dwarf forms of mammoths may have survived as late as 2,000 BC. Elephants and other Elephantidae were once classified with other thick-skinned animals in a now invalid order, Pachydermata.

Elephants are the largest land animals now living. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kilograms (260 lb).