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• Elephants belong to the family Pachydermia, which comes from the Greek words meaning “thick-skinned.” Elephants do have thick skins, around 1.5 inches thick, but it’s very sensitive. In fact, elephants will leave very good habitat in order to find a location with fewer mosquitoes.

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• The feet of an elephant have a combined • The sleeping habits of a herd of 34 elephants surface area of 3.5 sq. ft., so that their weight in a zoo were studied. Every night, 29 of them iswould pretty and they hardly fallevenly soundlydistributed asleep, snoring up a storm, even any tracks. lady’s on stiletto whileleave five others wouldAremain their heel feet has greater pressure square inch than an in aalight doze.

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Animals who have excessive exposure to sunlight are at risk for skin cancer, but only in areas without hair or pigmentation. The risk areas for cats include the pink tip of the nose, the eyelids and the areas around the ears. For dogs, it is a fair complexion and exposure to the underbelly or inside the back legs.

The fourth most common site for cancer in domestic animals is the mouth. This is because carcinogens from the air land on their coats, and when they groom themselves, the carcinogens get into their mouths. Breeds that have dark pigment in the mouth, like German shepherds, chows and Scotties, are prone to melanoma. A sign of mouth cancer may be swelling around a tooth where there is no sign of tooth injury or dental disease.

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In any pet, the site of an injury or trauma may result in cancer later on. Cats can develop sarcomas at vaccination sites. Sites of old bone fractures or metal plates or pins are also susceptible to sarcoma. Cancer is also associated with chronic inflammation. Cocker spaniels who have chronic ear infections may develop carcinoma in the cerumin gland, the wax-producing gland.

The peak time for cancer to occur in pets is at 10 to 12 years of age. A geriatric checkup is recommended every six months for older animals.

ELEPHANTS (cont’d) • The gestation period is longer for elephants than for any other animal, lasting between 18 and 23 months, depending on species. Other female elephants will assist a mother before and during the birth of her young, standing by to help and chasing off any predators that come into the area during the birth.

• A newborn elephant weighs 200 to 300 pounds (90-136 kg), and is covered with brown hair which slowly wears off during its lifetime. The young are not fully weaned until the age of five or six. Their milk tusks fall out at age two and are replaced by permanent tusks. Sexual maturity comes around 18 years of age, and they can live 60 years.

• A female elephant usually breeds once every three years, so it is common for a female to have several children of various ages. They can bear up to 12 offspring in their lives. A mother elephant calls to her young by slapping her ears against her head.

• Mother elephants have been seen carrying their dead children around in their tusks, and have been known to have scraped graves and buried their dead offspring.

• Elephants spend about 16 hours a day eating, and can consume a quarter ton of food a day.

They are strictly vegetarian. Their usual fare is grass, twigs, tubers, and fruits, but they are also fond of bamboo, berries, coconuts, corn, dates, plums, and sugar cane.

• Elephants are social creatures. They sometimes “hug” by wrapping their trunks together in displays of greeting and affection. They have greeting ceremonies when a friend that has been away for some time returns to the group.

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ELEPHANTS (cont’d) • Elephant ears can be five feet (1.5 km) wide, which aids their hearing. They can hear sounds up to two miles (3.2 km) away and can smell a human a mile (1.6 km) away. They can even hear the rustle of a mouse.

• An elephant’s size is its best defense. Only giraffes are taller than elephants, and only some whales are bigger. A healthy adult elephant fears no enemy in nature’s normal chain. Only the young, the old, and the infirm need to worry about lions and tigers. Healthy elephants are easily able to stand up to any attacking animal.

• Their primary enemy is mankind. One elephant herd may claim a territory of up to 2,000 square miles. Humans have destroyed elephant’s natural habitat through settlements and farms.

When elephants wander into farm fields and gardens that used to be their territory, local villagers attack and kill them. The demand for ivory has also been responsible for decimating their numbers. The number of African elephants declines by eight percent each year, due in large part to poaching for the sake of the ivory.

WHITE ELEPHANTS • In Thailand and southeast Asia, elephants are considered to be sacred animals. White elephants are especially sacred. If a rich man knew someone he didn’t particularly like, he might purchase a white elephant and bestow it as a gift upon the person he didn’t like. The person who received the animal was honorbound to take excellent care of the sacred white elephant for the rest of its life— and elephants live a very long time. That meant decades of feeding it a quarter-ton of food a day, and carrying off amazing amounts of manure.

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• From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on the Mediterranean Sea sailed a small threemasted vessel with square and triangular sails that enabled them to sail faster than their prospective victims. Depending on the size of the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 guns might be mounted on the vessel.

• The word xenia has a variety of meanings.

To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s the effect of pollen on a seed. And to those in Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, a community about 21 miles (34 km) from Dayton.

• Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes would exercise during inclement weather.

To the Romans, the xystus was the garden walkway in front of the porticoes, where they planted flower beds.

Differences on Page 8 • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest.

• The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix.

Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants with yellow stems are xanthopous. To those suffering from the abnormal vision condition known as xanthopsia, everything they see seems to have a yellow hue.

OCTOPUS

• The word “octopus” comes from the Greek, word “oktŌpous” meaning “eight foot.”

• The plural form of “octopus” is “octopuses.”

• Octopuses have three hearts: one to keep blood in circulation around the organs and the other two to move blood past the gills. The heart that pumps blood to the organs ceases its beating when the octopus swims, which is why an octopus will usually choose crawling over swimming, which is less exhausting.

• Octopuses are cephalopods. Cephalopods 3rd are Quarter a class of2016 mollusk that includes squids, cuttlefish, Week and 34 nautilus. Cephalopod means “head-footed” because August 14 -August 20 their arms protrude directly from their head.

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• Although it’s commonly thought that an octopus has eight tentacles, they are actually technically arms. Tentacles have suckers only near the ends, whereas arms have suckers their entire length. Tentacles are longer than arms.

Octopuses have eight arms and no tentacles, while squid and cuttlefish have eight arms and two tentacles. Each octopus arm has up to 240 suckers.

• When threatened, an octopus will squirt a cloud of ink to hide itself. The ink also causes blinding irritation to the eyes, as well as interfering with the sense of smell and taste.

If an octopus does not escape its own cloud of ink, it can die.

• The octopus is a master of camouflage and can change pigments in its skin to blend into the background within three-tenths of a second.

• If a predator grabs an octopus by its arm, the octopus can disconnect the arm and get away.

It can then re-grow the arm. When held captive under stressful or boring conditions, they have been known to eat their own arms.

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There are about 200 species of octopus. Those that live in cold water climates are larger than those in warm water environments.

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• Ralph Samuelson was 18 years old in June of 1922 and living in Minnesota. He lived near Lake Pepin and spent much time there playing around.

• He thought that a person who could ski on snow ought to be able to ski on water as well, and he set out to find the way to do that.

• Ralph strapped on his winter snow skis, hooked a rope up to the back of his brother’s powerboat, and gave the signal. He fell flat on his face in the water. So he tried again the next day using barrel staves instead of skis, which also didn’t work. The day after that, he used long pine boards curled up at the end. Then he tried using different kinds of rope tied to the boat.

• He improvised a handle to hold onto. He tried stepping out of the moving boat onto his skis.

Nothing worked. He always went face first into the water.

• Then he had a brainstorm: what if, instead of starting out with his skis underwater, he started out with his skis poking up above the water?

Eureka! On July 2, 1922, Ralph Samuelson became the first person in history to water ski.

He turned 19 the next day. It had taken him five days to figure out the secret of water skiing.

• He made steady improvements in the design of his water skis and practiced all summer long until he was able to put on stunning demonstrations that attracted huge crowds.

Articles in newspapers brought thousands down to see his Sunday afternoon shows. By 1926 Ralph was able to do all kinds of tricks, including skiing on one foot, balancing on one ski in a headstand, and launching himself over ski jumps.

• He moved to Florida where he could ski yearround and became a professional showman, amazing tourists.

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• In the 1930s he injured his back while doing some construction work on a boat house. No longer able to ski, he fell into obscurity.

• In 1963, a newspaper reporter on vacation happened to see Ralph Samuelson’s original water skis mounted on the wall of a bath house at Lake Pepin under a sign proclaiming, “World’s First Water Skis.” This tweaked her curiosity and she decided to do some investigating.

• After talking with the locals and reading old newspaper accounts, she wrote a column about Ralph Samuelson in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The article ended with a plea: “Where are you now, Mr. Samuelson?”

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• In 1966 the American Water Ski Association named him the official Father of Water Skiing and Samuelson spent the final years of his life in great demand as guest of honor at water ski shows, competitions, and conventions.

• When he died in 1977, Minnesota state officials put a memorial marker on the shores of Lake Pepin. His original skis are now on display at the Water Ski Hall of Fame in Winter Haven, Florida. His slightly-modified second pair are displayed at the Lake City Chamber of Commerce, in Lake City, Minnesota.

• Ralph Samuelson never patented his invention.

• In 2012 in Tasmania, Australia, a world record was set for the most skiers towed behind a single boat: 145.

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