Adorable Baby Elephant Enjoys a Day at the Beach
Distract yourself from the impending snowstorm by watching this baby elephant frolic in the sand. Jealous much?
Santa's Enormous Helper
Kids at the Jirasartwitthaya elementary school in Ayutthaya, Thailand, are paid a visit by an elephant dressed as Santa Claus earlier today. [Image via AP]
Watch an Elephant Attack an Unsuspecting Minivan
In your incredibly close call of the day, some extremely lucky (or unlucky) people in a minivan narrowly miss being tusked and trampled by an elephant.
White Elephant Found in Myanmar, Headed for Luxurious Cage Life
A rare white elephant was captured in the jungles of Myanmar and has been transported to the capital, where the 38-year-old animal will live out its days caged in front of a temple. The country's military leadership named her Bhaddavati.
Elephant Toothpaste Is As Mysterious As It Is Foamy
This video generates more questions than it answers: what is "Elephant Toothpaste?" Do elephants even need toothpaste? Oh, nevermind- the colors are bright and the music is jaunty, and that's all a video really needs.
Mother Elephant Rescues Baby Elephant
This elephant youngster accidentally falls into a watering hole that's a little too deep. Luckily, a group of moms spring to the rescue.
Somebody Figure Out If This Elephant Is Really Painting A Self-Portrait
When someone from YouTube showed me this yesterday, I swore it was a fake, or at least the elephant is just repeating a pattern learned by rote, because no way can that animal represent itself so abstractly. But apparently it was on 60 Minutes? But if it's real, why do they zoom in when it's painting so it looks like…
The Circus: Evil?
In the wee hours of this morning, Barnum & Bailey's Circus paraded their elephants into Manhattan, in what has become an annual tradition and spectacle. PETA is not too happy about this sort of thing. Is the circus really bad? On one hand, they're cruelly exploiting majestic mammals for the pitiful bemusement of…
No Weekend Plans? The 'Times' Suggests Animals
As regular readers/depressives have no doubt surmised, most every weekend around here is about reading the New York Times — that is, ogling the pictures and sniffing the newsprint — and convincing ourselves that, just like Harry Hurt, we could do interesting things if we wanted to, that we aren't just inputs to an…
Morgenstern on Elephant Movies, Unforgivably
Writing in the Pursuits section of the Wall Street Journal's weekend edition today, film critic Joe Morgenstern takes approximately 70 square inches to explain why the "gory, stupid" action movie 300 is a symptom of the empty bigness that Americans now demand from their entertainment. (We'd link to it, but according…
