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Elephant Butte Reservoir
Elephant Butte Reservoir is an irrigation and hydropower reservoir on the Rio Grande in New Mexico, begun in 1915 as the centerpiece of the federal Rio Grande Project.
Elephant Camp (Myanmar)
Elephant camps (ဆင်စခန်း) in Myanmar: 22 state-run facilities, mostly under Myanma Timber Enterprise's Elephant Conservation-Based Tourism, housing captive Asian elephants shifted from logging to rides, bathing, and ecotourism after timber decline.
Elephant cognition
Elephant cognition: mental abilities of Asian and African elephants (Loxodonta, Elephas), covering memory, mirror self-recognition, vocal naming in rumbles, olfactory decision-making, and conservation applications.
Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus
Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV), genus Proboscivirus, is a DNA herpesvirus of Asian and African elephants causing often fatal hemorrhagic disease, chiefly in juvenile Asian elephants.
Elephant gun
The elephant gun, also called an elephant rifle, is a large-bore rifle for stopping elephants and dangerous game, evolving from 19th-century muzzle loaders into Nitro Express doubles.
Elephant herding optimization
Elephant herding optimization (EHO) is a swarm-based metaheuristic algorithm for continuous global optimization, introduced in 2015, that mimics elephant herds led by a matriarch, with males separating from the group.
Elephant Hospital
Elephant Hospital: FAE Elephant Hospital (มูลนิธิเพื่อนช้าง) in Lampang, Thailand, the world's first elephant hospital, opened 1994 by Friends of the Asian Elephant; treats landmine and traffic-injured elephants, distinct from the government NEI hospital nearby.
Elephant in the room
The elephant in the room is an English idiom, also phrased 'elephant in the living room', for an obvious problem everyone sees but avoids discussing. American in origin; the OED dates the modern sense to a 20 June 1959 New York Times simile.
Elephant Island
Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: ice-covered island 1,255 km from South Georgia where 22 of Shackleton's Endurance crew survived four months in 1916 until rescue by the Chilean tug Yelcho.
Elephant Kingdom
Elephant Kingdom (Королівство слонів) is the Asian elephant exhibit of Kharkiv Zoo, Ukraine, its largest exposition complex (1,412 m² summer and 1,737 m² indoor enclosures, sand flooring first in Ukraine). Also the name of Ichihara Elephant Kingdom in Japan and Samui Elephant Kingdom in Thailand.
Elephant Partners
Elephant Partners is a Boston venture capital firm founded around 2015 by Jeremiah Daly and Warby Parker co-founder Andrew Hunt, investing in consumer internet, mobile, and software.
Elephant polo
Elephant polo, a polo variant played on elephants with long mallets on a shortened pitch, founded 1982 in Nepal by Jim Edwards and James Manclark under WEPA; main tournaments ended 2017-2018 after welfare criticism.
Elephant seal
Elephant seal (Mirounga): two species, northern (angustirostris) and southern (leonina), the largest seals and most sexually dimorphic mammals; deep divers to 2,000 m; northern species recovered from under 100 survivors to about 250,000.
Elephant shrew
The elephant shrew, also called a sengi, is a small, fast-running African mammal with a long trunk-like snout, more closely related to elephants than to true shrews.
Elephant tomb at Carmona
Elephant tomb (Tumba del Elefante), rock-cut hypogeum in the Roman Necropolis of Carmona, Seville, Spain, excavated 1885-1886. Named for a sandstone elephant sculpture; reinterpreted in 2012 as a possible mithraeum with equinox solar alignment.
Elephant trunk manipulator (Elephant's Trunk robot)
The elephant trunk manipulator is a continuum robot arm built at Clemson University by Michael W. Hannan and Ian D. Walker, which bends smoothly along its whole length.
Elephant trunk technique
The elephant trunk technique is a staged cardiac surgery approach for extensive aortic disease, introduced by Borst and colleagues in 1983, leaving a graft segment for later completion.
Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl)
The Elephant's Foot is a solidified lava-like mass of melted nuclear fuel, or corium, formed during the 1986 Chernobyl accident and discovered in fall 1986 beneath Reactor 4.
Elephant's toothpaste
Elephant's toothpaste is a popular chemistry demonstration in which hydrogen peroxide, catalyzed by potassium iodide or yeast, erupts into a rapidly growing column of foam.
Elephanta Caves
Elephanta Caves (Gharapuri): rock-cut Hindu Shaiva cave temples on Elephanta Island in Mumbai Harbour, carved mid-5th to 6th centuries CE, famed for the 7-metre Sadashiva Trimurti and fifteen reliefs; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
Elephanta Trimurti
The Elephanta Trimurti, also called the Sadashiva or Maheshamurti, is a colossal three-headed bust of Shiva carved in basalt in the Elephanta Caves, Mumbai Harbour.
Elephantidae
Elephantidae is the elephant family in order Proboscidea, containing Loxodonta africana, Loxodonta cyclotis, Elephas maximus, and extinct mammoths and straight-tusked elephants; three species survive, all IUCN-listed threatened.
Elephantine
Elephantine, ancient Yebu, is a Nile island opposite Aswan at the First Cataract, settled from about 3300 BC as a fortress, sanctuary, and frontier post controlling trade with Nubia.
Elephantine petition to Bagoas
The Elephantine petition to Bagoas is an Aramaic letter of 407 BCE asking the Persian governor of Judah to authorize rebuilding the Jewish temple at Elephantine, Egypt.
Elephantomyia brevipalpa
Elephantomyia brevipalpa is an extinct species of crane fly in the family Limoniidae, known from Eocene Baltic amber and first described by Hermann Loew in 1851.
Elephants in the Fog
Elephants in the Fog (Tiniharu, तिनीहरू) is a 2026 Nepali drama-thriller, Abinash Bikram Shah's debut feature, about a Kinnar transgender matriarch in a village stalked by wild elephants; it won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2026 and is Nepal's Oscar submission.
Elephants World
ElephantsWorld (Elephants World) is an elephant sanctuary near Kanchanaburi, Thailand, founded in 2008 by veterinarians Dr. Samart and Khun Fon to rescue old, abused, and disabled elephants, offering no-riding day and volunteer programs.
Elephantulus
Elephantulus, a genus of small African mammals, is also called long-eared or soft-rinned sengis. Established by Thomas and Schwann in 1906, it is closely related to elephants and tenrecs.
Elephas
Elephas (Linnaeus, 1758) is the elephant genus containing the single living species Elephas maximus, the Asian elephant, with three subspecies, an Endangered wild population of about 48,000-52,000 across 13 Asian range states, and extinct relatives such as E. hysudricus and Palaeoloxodon.
Elephas Biosciences Corp
Elephas Biosciences Corporation is a private, Delaware-incorporated cancer diagnostics biotech company founded in 2020 in Madison, Wisconsin, by Maneesh Arora, developing a live-tumor profiling platform to predict immunotherapy response.