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And a good thing it is, too...'cause imagine if an elephant's trunk went stiff!   just because it always breaks my heart to see someone's Alpha-post sitting there with a great big AUGHT next to it in the replies column...having suffered muchly the same indifference meownself (sniff).  And about those elephant hooves, Max...
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a real peckerderm... 
formerly known as etaoin...
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Have you ever seen one in all it's glory? I did when I was 14. WOW!!
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Way big, WW. It was thrown up over the back of the lucky lady elephant he was trying to convince. Busch Gardens is such an educational place  to take your kids.
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Well, girls, I do think the world is a safer place for us knowing how to de-arouse an elephant. There's a joke in there somewhere, I'm sure ...
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Why did he put it up over the back of the lady elephant? Is this a new courting gesture, consuelo? How very curious. Was he giving her a back rub with it or something like that? Maybe comparable to a guy throwing his arm around a girl's shoulders? Or just scaring off competitors with his male-elephantine-ness? Animals examined from the outside can be very, very strange in their behaviors. I suppose they might find it strange that we are discussing this at all.
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I've seen this elephant courting stuff IRL. The thing is like a long snake, groping around. Quite weird.
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That is very weird, Faldage. The groping around. Ha! Really funny actually. One of the teachers I work with has visited Kenya with her husband. She said the giraffes are very beautiful when they court--they do some kind of dance with their necks all intertwined. That sounds pretty and not 'weird' like the elephants. Elephants are pretty interesting animals, aren't they? Someone here, I think, reported that they like to get drunk off fermented bananas. Maybe that's why they throw their elephant willies around! Perhaps they're too inebriated to know which end is up! 
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