pachyderm
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There is hope that once Osh, a male, arrives at the sanctuary, the 30-year-old pachyderm will reunite with Donna, the zoo’s last remaining female African elephant that was relocated there last year.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024
The pachyderm is expected to return to Sri Lanka after treatment, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has said, and animal welfare activists hope he will be sent to a sanctuary.
From Reuters • Jun. 21, 2023
The pachyderm rituals would not have seemed out of place at a human funeral: Some stood in quiet order while observing Tolstoy's remains, and others gently touched his body with their trunks.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2023
Mr Renjith sees the pachyderm at least once in two months.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2023
The prisoners heard it ap- Eroach, shaking the pavement with its weight like an invinci- le pachyderm.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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