Sentences with phrase «high as an elephant»

First, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the breakthrough Broadway musical that, starting in 1943, extolled the virtues of a state where «the corn is as high as an elephant's eye.»

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«An important way to create more self - managing ecosystems with a high level of biodiversity is to make room for large herbivores in the European landscape — and possibly reintroduce animals such as wild cattle, bison and even elephants.

Results show clearly that forest elephants were increasingly uncommon in places with high human density, high infrastructure density such as roads, high hunting intensity, and poor governance as indicated by levels of corruption and absence of law enforcement.

According to a 2013 study by the University of Washington, the annual number of African elephants being slaughtered to supply the illegal ivory trade is estimated to be as high as 50,000, or roughly one sixth of the continent's remaining elephant population.

«The question becomes how do they maintain these relationships,» because what the elephants are doing «requires a high level of cognitive capacity,» as any social networking maven well knows.

The reed can grow as high as 3 metres in one season, so local farmers call it «elephant grass».

The African elephant is classified as «vulnerable» and is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

Time to point out the pink elephant in the room: thigh highs as a practical choice for moms really?

Chris Rock launched his return stint as Oscar host on Sunday by immediately and unabashedly confronting the racially charged elephant in the room — the furor over the all - white field of performers nominated for Hollywood's highest honors.

Films which seemed to be impressed by their high - profile literary and theatrical pedigrees were famously described by Manny Farber as «white elephant art», technically accomplished but fundamentally hollow spectacles, «films that do not actively use their visual register to produce meaning» (18).

But just as these financial elephants began trampling on one another in their rush to equities, we entered an era of accelerating inflation and higher interest rates.

As a matter of fact, rates of congenital deformities in northern elephant seals are higher than in any other marine mammal species we see at the hospital, according to Dr. Bill Van Bonn, Director of Veterinary Science at The Marine Mammal Center.

The elephant seals of the Falklands were heavily exploited as a source of high - quality oil in the 18th century: the population was very reduced by the beginning of this century, when sealing was concentrated on South Georgia.

The Annapurna Trek provides a true Nepalese trekking experience to the high mountains of the Himalayas, while the Chitwan portion brings you to the vastly - different jungle region of Nepal where you can experience such activities in Chitwan National Park as elephant riding, bathing elephants, jungle walk, canoeing, as well as have the opportunity to see such animals as rhinoceros, elephants, leopards, wild boar, crocodiles, and perhaps even a tiger, along with hundreds of exotic bird species.

Best described as a cross between iconic sidescrollers Mega Man and the aforementioned Sonic the Hedgehog, TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT is an idyllic combination of a high speed collectathon and methodic platformer.

Sun Tzu has very little to say about attacking an entrenched force that holds high ground, consists of greater numerical superiority and contains elephants, chariots and what can only be described as «great balls of fire.»

(Tracey Emin's My Bed in Turner Prize competition)(Brief Article) Insight on the News; January 31, 2000; Goode, Stephen; 378 words... Brooklyn Museum of Art, among whose controversial works is Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary — created from paint, elephant dung... culture, as one of the chief contenders for this year's Turner Prize, the highest of British an awards.

However, the report also stresses that concerted conservation action can have an impact: 5 % of species currently listed as threatened in the wild (including such high profile species as the African elephant) are showing signs of recovery.

The US comes off looking like a clown, which it is not — but rather as an elephant in a very expensive, high end jewellery shop and / or rats in sewers (both analogies do not do justice to either elephants or rats as Dr. Hunter S. Thopmson of Gonzo fame might quip — it is worse than that).