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elephant Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae ...

is a large, grey mammal native to Africa and southern Asia. Elephant may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Films

* ''Elephant'' (1989 film), directed by Alan Clarke * ''Elephant'' (1993 film), a public information film about seat belt use in the UK * ''Elephant'' (2003 film), directed by Gus Van Sant * ''Elephant'' (2020 film), a Disney nature documentary

Music

* ''Elephant'' (album), a 2003 album by the White Stripes * L'Éléphant, a movement of ''

The Carnival of the Animals ''The Carnival of the Animals'' (''Le Carnaval des animaux'') is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements, including " The Swan", by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The work, about 25 minutes in duration, was written for priva ...

'' by Saint-Saëns * "Elephant" (Alexandra Burke song), a 2012 song by Alexandra Burke * "Elephant" (Margaret song), a 2016 song by Margaret * "Elephants" (song), a 2008 song by Warpaint * "L'Elephant", a song from the album ''

Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth and as a side project from Talking Heads. Their best known songs include " Wordy Rappinghood", " Genius of Love", and a cover o ...

'' by Tom Tom Club * "Elephant", a song from the album '' 9'' by Damien Rice * "Elephant" (Tame Impala song), a 2012 song by Tame Impala and covered by the Wiggles in 2021 * "Elephants", a song from the album ''

Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures is an English-American alternative rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 2009 by Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss) on lead vocals and guitar, John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin) on bass and keyboards, and ...

'' by Them Crooked Vultures * "Elephant", a song from the 2012 album ''

Hannah Georgas Hannah Georgas (born 30 August 1983) is a Canadian pop/rock singer-songwriter, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was nominated in the categories of "Best New Artist of the Year" and "Songwriter of the Year" at the 2011 Juno Awards, a ...

'' by Hannah Georgas * "Elephant", from ''

Excellent Italian Greyhound ''Excellent Italian Greyhound'' is Shellac's fourth album, released on June 5, 2007. The album's title is a reference to drummer Todd Trainer's Italian Greyhound, Uffizi, who appears on the album's cover. The album was recorded at Electrical Aud ...

'' by Shellac * "The Elephant Song" (song), a 1975 song by Kamahl

Other

* ''

The Elephants ''The Elephants'' ( es, Los Elefantes) is a 1948 painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Background The elephant is a recurring theme in the works of Dalí, first appearing in his 1944 work '' Dream Caused by the Flight of a Be ...

'' (Los Elefantes), a 1948 painting by Salvador Dalí * ''Elephant'' (short story collection), a 1988 story collection by Raymond Carver

Places

Antarctica

Elephant Flats Borge Bay () is a large, irregularly-shaped bay that dominates the east side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was charted in 1912 by Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sorlle, and named for Captain Hans Borge of the '' ...

, Signy Island *

Elephant Island Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean. The island is situated north-northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, west-so ...

, South Shetland Islands *

Elephant Moraine Elephant Moraine () is an isolated moraine, long, located west of Reckling Peak, to the west of the head of Mawson Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The moraine, described in some reports as an ice core moraine, is situated along a long, narr ...

, Victoria Land *

Elephant Point Elephant Point is a small predominantly ice-free promontory projecting 2 km into Bransfield Strait at the south extremity of the west half of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point forms the southwest side ...

, Livingston Island *

Elephant Ridge Elephant Ridge () is a sharp curved ridge in Antarctica, orientated generally west–east, and extending for about , with the highest point at the center rising to . The northern slopes are snow and ice free, and the central point is situated about ...

, Alexander Island *

Elephant Rocks (Antarctica) Amsler Island is a small island off the south coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It sits between Loudwater Cove and Arthur Harbour. The island is a roughly triangular rocky plot of granite land approximately long a ...

, Palmer Archipelago

Subantarctic

Elephant Cays The Elephant Cays are a group of small islands lying towards the southern end of Falkland Sound, just to the north-west of Speedwell Island, in the Falkland Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean. The group, with a collective area of 248 ha in ...

, Falkland Islands *

Elephant Cove Elephant Cove () is a small circular cove lying north of Klutschak Point along the south coast and near the west end of South Georgia. The name "Elephant Bay", probably applied by early sealers at South Georgia, was recorded on the chart of the G ...

, South Georgia *

Elephant Lagoon Cook Bay () is an irregular bay, wide at its entrance between Cape Crewe and Black Head, narrowing into two western arms, Lighthouse Bay and Prince Olav Harbour, along the north coast of South Georgia. It was charted by Discovery Investigations ( ...

, South Georgia *

Elephant Spit Elephant Spit is a 9 km long sand spit at the eastern end of subantarctic Heard Island, in the Australian territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, lying in the Southern Ocean on the Kerguelen Plateau about 450 km south-east ...

, Heard Island

United States

Elephant, Pennsylvania Elephant is an unincorporated community in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States, on the southeastern side of Lake Nockamixon. It is two miles northeast of the junction of Pennsylvania Routes 313 and 563 __NOTOC__ Ye ...

, an unincorporated community *

Elephant Arch Elephant Arch is a small natural sandstone arch in the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area and Red Cliffs Desert Reserve in northern Washington, Utah, United States. The arch, which resembles the trunk and eye of an elephant, is part way u ...

, a sandstone formation in Utah *

Elephant Mountain (Oxford County, Maine) Elephant Mountain is a mountain located in Township C, Oxford County, Maine. Its northeastern end is in Township D, Franklin County. Elephant Mountain is flanked to the northeast by Bemis Mountain, and to the southeast by Old Blue ...

Elephant Mountain (Piscataquis County, Maine) Elephant Mountain is a mountain located in Bowdoin College Grant West (Maine Township 8, Range 10, NWP) Piscataquis County, Maine. It is about southeast of Moosehead Lake, 2 miles southwest of Baker Mountain, and 5 miles w ...

* Elephant Point (Alaska)

Elsewhere

Mount Elephant Mount Elephant is a conical breached scoria cone formed by a dormant volcano, located 1 km from the town of Derrinallum in southwestern Victoria, Australia. It is a prominent landmark that forms the eastern gateway to the Kanawinka Geo ...

, Victoria, Australia *

Dâmrei Mountains The Dâmrei Mountains (literally the "Elephant Mountains", km, ភ្នំដំរី, Chuŏr Phnum Dâmrei), refer to a mountain range situated in south-western Cambodia, traversing around north-south as a succession of the Cardamom Mou ...

(Elephant Mountains), Cambodia *

Elephant and Castle The Elephant and Castle is an area around a major road junction in London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark. The name also informally refers to much of Walworth and Newington, due to the proximity of the London Underground station ...

, an area of London, England, informally called "the Elephant" * The Elephant, a mountain in

Milford Sound Milford Sound / Piopiotahi is a fiord in the south west of New Zealand's South Island within Fiordland National Park, Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) Marine Reserve, and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. It has been judged the world's top tr ...

, New Zealand *

Elephant Rock (disambiguation) Elephant Rock can refer to: Landmarks * Elephant Rocks (Antarctica), a rock formation in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica * Elephant Rocks (Western Australia), a beach in Australia * Elephant Rock, a rock formation near Hopewell Cape, New Brun ...

Buildings

Elephant Building The Elephant Building or Chang Building ( th, ตึกช้าง, ) is a high-rise building at Paholyothin Road and Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok, Thailand. It lies in the north Bangkok business district and Chatuchak District. The buildin ...

, a high-rise in Bangkok, Thailand *

Elephant Packing House The Elephant Packing House was built in 1924, in Fullerton, Orange County, Southern California. Valencia oranges were packed here, from the abundant orchards that then dominated the county and gave it its name. William Wolfskill had developed and e ...

, Fullerton, California *

Edward Gorey House The Edward Gorey House, also known as the Elephant House, is the home on Cape Cod in which Edward Gorey—author, illustrator, puppeteer, and playwright—lived and worked from 1986 until his death in 2000. The house currently serves as a museum ...

, also known as Elephant House, Cape Cod, Massachusetts *

Elephant Hotel The Elephant Hotel is a historic former hotel which today serves as the town hall in Somers, in Westchester County, New York, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on August 7, 1974 as Somers Town House ...

, Somers, New York

Military uses

* , the name of various British Royal Navy ships *

Martinsyde G.100 The Martinsyde G.100 "Elephant" and the G.102 were British fighter bomber aircraft of the First World War built by Martinsyde. The type gained the name " Elephant" from its relatively large size and lack of manoeuvrability. The G.102 differed ...

"Elephant", a British First World War bomber aircraft *

103 Squadron (Israel) The 103 Squadron of the Israeli Air Force, also known as the Elephants Squadron, is a C-130J Super Hercules squadron based at Nevatim Airbase. The Squadron formerly operated the C-130E The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine t ...

or the Elephants Squadron * Operation Elephant, part of the World War II

Battle for the Kapelsche Veer The Battle for the Kapelsche Veer, also known as Operation Elephant took place between 26–31 January 1945. It was fought between the German Wehrmacht and allied troops at the Kapelsche Veer – a ferry crossing of the River Meuse near the vil ...

in the Netherlands

Business

* Elephant.co.uk, a UK motor insurance company *

Elephant Memory Systems Elephant Memory Systems (EMS) was a popular brand of floppy disk media produced by Leading Edge in the 1980s. The name for the product was suggested by Ray Welch to company owner Michael Shane because of the common folk wisdom that an elephant ne ...

, a computer floppy disk manufacturer * Elephant Field, an oilfield in Libya's Murzuq Basin *

Elephant Gate and Tower, Carlsberg The Elephant Tower (Danish: ''Elefanttårnet'') (also known as the Elephant Gate (Danish: ''Elefantporten'')) is the most famous landmark of the Carlsberg district in Copenhagen, Denmark, the original brewery site of the Carlsberg Breweries (the a ...

* Elephant beer, a beer brewed by

Carlsberg Carlsberg may refer to: Places * Carlsberg (district), a district in Copenhagen, Denmark ** Carlsberg station, its train station * Carlsberg, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Carlsberg Fjord, Greenland Other uses * Carlsbe ...

Brewery of Denmark

Sports and games

Ivory Coast national football team The Ivory Coast national football team (French: ''Équipe de football de Côte d'Ivoire'', recognized as the Côte d'Ivoire by FIFA) represents Ivory Coast in men's international football. Nicknamed ''the Elephants'', the team is managed by ...

, nicknamed the Elephants *

Elephant Rally The Elephant Rally, or Elefantentreffen, is a winter motorcycle rally, which takes place on the first weekend in February or on the last weekend in January annually in a valley between the towns of Thurmansbang and Solla in the Bavarian Forest in ...

, a motorcycle rally in Germany *

Elephant Gambit The Elephant Gambit (also called the Queen's Pawn Countergambit or Englund Counterattack) is a rarely played chess opening beginning with the moves: :1. e4 e5 :2. Nf3 d5 Although the Elephant Gambit is considered unsound, it has been used fr ...

, a rarely used chess opening

Other uses

* ''

Al-Fil Al-Fil ( ar, الفيل, "The Elephant") is the 105th chapter (surah) of the Quran. It is a Meccan sura consisting of 5 verses. The surah is written in the interrogative form. : ۝ HAST thou not seen how thy LORD dealt with the masters of the ...

'' ("The Elephant"), the 105th ''sura'' of the Qur'an * Elephant (pharaoh), an ancient Egyptian protodynastic ruler *

Elephant seal Elephant seals are very large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus ''Mirounga''. Both species, the northern elephant seal (''M. angustirostris'') and the southern elephant seal (''M. leonina''), were hunted to the brink of extinction for oil ...

, two species of large seals in the genus ''Mirounga'' * ''Elephant'' (de Camp book), a science book by L. Sprague de Camp * Elephant, a digital

fat face FatFace is a British lifestyle brand, based in Hampshire, which creates product ranges across women's, men's, kids, footwear and accessories. FatFace is a multichannel retailer, with an international digital business as well as over 180 store ...

typeface * Elephant folio, a

book size The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover. A series of terms is commonly used by libraries and publishers for the general sizes of modern books, ranging fr ...

Order of the Elephant The Order of the Elephant ( da, Elefantordenen) is a Danish order of chivalry and is Denmark's highest-ranked honour. It has origins in the 15th century, but has officially existed since 1693, and since the establishment of constitutiona ...

, the highest order of Denmark * The Elephant, a nickname for the 426 cu in Chrysler V8 engine