elephants in Podcasts
placeA species of large mammals native to Africa and Asia, used by Hannibal in his famous crossing of the Alps.
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Okay, well, I think as far as that goes, we've been studying elephants and rhinos in South Africa.
I had no idea, for instance, that elephants were evolving without tusks.
Weigh Hannibal in the Scales. How many pounds will that peerless general mark up today? This is the man, for whom Africa was too small a continent, though it stretched from the surf-beaten ocean shores of Morocco east to the steamy Nile, to Ethiopian tribesmen and the uncharted habitats of elephants. Now Spain swells his empire, now he surmounts the Pyrenees.