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Elephants appear in the news media in reports that fall into a few categories. Such as stories about: elephants under attack by poachers (or loss of ecosystem), rampaging elephants, scientific research involving elephants, elephants in captivity and so on. In my Dad’s book these stories are arranged by category into their own chapters and each … Read more
My Dad’s limerick book opens with a quotation from the classical scholar PLINY THE ELDER, who was the first natural historian, being the author of the Naturalis Historia, and had nothing but good things to say about elephants, hence his quote opens the book. I looked for visual reference on Pliny, but no contemporary portraits … Read more
For the first two years I had my website (2001-2003) I would write this NEWS page directly in HTML and consequently didn’t post all that often as coding punishes my tiny mind. In August 2003 I discovered Blogger and used that for publishing my NEWS page for the past few years. I enjoyed the ease … Read more
The title page for a chapter that deals with stories and limericks about elephants at work. In other News, for those of you who live in Australia, ALL my self published books are now available from IMPACT COMICS in Canberra. Also, BUD PLANT has discounted my Rocket Rabbit book at his site. You can buy … Read more
This one illustrates a limerick (based on the true story) of a Mexico City circus owner who hired some “coyotes” to sneak an elephant across the border into Mexico. The circus owner bought “Benny” from a zoo in the USA, became frustrated with the delays and paperwork involved in importing an elephant, and decided to … Read more