For #WorldElephantDay 🐘:
Dancing #Ganesha sculptures at The Walters Art Museum:
1. India (Bihar), 1st half 11th c., stone (Muscovite biotite schist)
2. India (Uttar Pradesh), 9th-10th c., sandstone
3. Nepal, 15th-16th c., gilded copper alloy
#SouthAsianArt

Did you know the bantha seen in A New Hope was played by Mardji, a 22 year old female asian elephant?

#StarWars #ANewHope #Bantha #WorldElephantDay

My Elephants #NgorogoroCrater #Tanzania. Today is #WorldElephantDay! Taken while shooting a doc in Tanzania. Experience was transformative. Seeing elephants in the wild is like peering at The Gods. If you’ve seen THE GREEN KNIGHT, it’s like Gawain & the giants (my fav scene by the way). #Africa #Safari

Happy #WorldElephantDay Mastodon and PostgreSQL lol

Do you know any other software with elephant logo?

#FOSS #Software #FosseryTech

#worldelephantday … y’all must be talking about #Mastodon.

:mascot: :oops: :mastodon:

#HashtagGames

@QuirkyFilms :thaenkin: … does the Elephant Man (1980) count?? If not then how about Babar: The Movie (1989).

#worldelephantday #HashtagGames

For #WorldElephantDay 🐘:
Pair of Earrings in the Form of Dancing #Elephants
India, Deccan, 19th c.
Gold inlaid with rubies & sapphires
1 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 1/2 in. (3.81 × 3.81 × 1.27 cm) each
LACMA M.86.49a-b: https://collections.lacma.org/node/252139
#IndianArt #Jewelry

Well what do you know? It's World Elephant Day!!! Are elephants one of your favorite animals? Sad that all 3 species are endangered!

#elephants #conservation #worldelephantday

Photo: WWF

@𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘇𝗼𝗼
It's #WorldElephantDay! Sure, Hallmark doesn't sell cards for it, but as home to 4 of these amazing animals we think protecting our planet's largest land mammals seems more than worthy. 🌍🐘 pic.twitter.com/SrJ8N69yGO
∙ 𝙰𝚞𝚐 𝟷𝟸, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝟷𝟷:𝟺𝟷𝙰𝙼 ∙

https://twitter.com/marylandzoo/status/1690387922053201921

#zoo #animals #marylandzoo

Bearing witness to an encounter between a man and an elephant, acclaimed poet Camille T. Dungy offers us the opportunity to step into a moment where past harm gives way to an expansive recognition of love.
Read the poem “Sanctuary.” https://emergencemagazine.org/poem/sanctuary/
#WorldElephantDay #LivingWithTheUnknown #Poem

#QuizOfTheDay: The #Trunk of an #Elephant is the nose and upper lip.

Compared to human body, which has around 600 muscles, Elephant trunks contain approximately _____________ muscles. #WorldElephantDay

A. 40,000
B. 80,000
C. 10,000
D. 800
https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/quiz?qId=6115322a8b56ee7d3313ad25

Today is August 12, world elephant day! 🐘🐘🐘
#worldelephantday #elephant #habitat #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography
Even though we are a separate species, we are in many ways all one family. Humans need us as much as we need humans.
We take care of our own. Anyone can support our tusked friends through the following nonprofits and others like them 😁
https://worldelephantday.org
https://www.savetheelephants.org
https://elephantconservation.org
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/elephant

#WorldElephantDay

Published last month in the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy (by my colleague Dr Caroline Cox - and as of 1 Sept Associate Professor in Wildlife Crime and Policy)

Ice Ivory to White Gold: Links Between the Illegal Ivory Trade and the Trade in Geocultural Artifacts

https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13880292.2023.2217615

For more on law and elephants, https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/caroline-cox

Happy #WorldElephantDay

I feel sorry for pregnant elephants.

A really long gestation period but nobody ever talks about the elephant in the womb.

#WorldElephantDay

An older e for elephant print in honour of #WorldElephantDay - Africa and Indian elephants deserve to be protected and retain their habitat.

#elephant #linocut #printmaking #sciart #conservation #typography #alphabet #MastoArt

Today is #WorldElephantDay. When is #WorldMastodonDay?

Today is World Elephant Day! 🐘
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Elephant_Day
#WorldElephantDay #WorldElephantDay2023

For #WorldElephantDay 🐘:
Vessel with #Elephant Head + Jar in the Form of an Elephant
Eastern Thailand or Cambodia, 11th-13th c.
Glazed stoneware
Brooklyn Museum display

For #WorldElephantDay:
#Elephant masks
Blue cotton cloth, colored beads
Red cotton cloth, glass beads
Bamiléké people (Cameroon)
Field Museum display
#AfricanArt
“Members of secret societies- exclusive groups of men charged with maintaining the peace & safety of the kingdom - wore these elephant masks during rituals.”
“Elephants represented royalty in the sacred or precious objects of Grassfields peoples…objects made from elephant hide or ivory were always reserved for fon (Grassfields kings).