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Elephants around Lake Manyara in Tanzania were killing acacia trees by ripping off bark and leaving “pale ghostly white trunks.”

Mr Teller said the name was also inspired by the distinctive pale "knuckles" on the small leg-like appendages at the side of the spider's mouth.

Bulls, meanwhile, will point out that the float of credit default swaps pales in comparison to Oracle’s market capitalization.

Calling the move “beyond the pale,” he added that of the 46,616 messages his office has received since January, “not a single one” asked for a new congressional map in eastern North Carolina.

No doubt among such vast numbers there were some instances of rhetoric beyond the pale.