When I was a child, I remember going to the zoo and
looking at the elephants with my Dad.
"Look! That elefunt's got no head!" I said excitedly.
"No, son. He's just facing the wrong way round." replied Dad
We then moved onto looking at the hippo enclosure where the hippos were all
wallowing in imaginary circles (it was a small enclosure without
addequate facilities and they were all going slowly insane).
"What a bloody ugly elephant that one is."
"No, son. It's not an ugly elephant. It's a pretty hippopotamous".
That zoo visit was quite an eye opener for me, I can tell you, and by the
time I left I'd learnt to tell
the difference between an animal's rump and it's face, and between a
hippo and an
elephant. But can you?
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The first part of my challenge is simple. Can you tell the difference
between an elephant and a hippo?
Just by looking at it's arse.
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The second part of my challenge is more difficult.
Below on the right is an African elephant and on the left is an Indian. You can
tell the difference because the African has large ears, whereas the Indian has small.
When I say 'small', you could probably still pick up Sky One if you
hooked one ear up to your set top box and used it as a satellite dish.
Indeed, they are often hunted for
this purpose, with their
Ivory tusks being used to make a top of the range waterproof remote control box, and their trunk converted into a cathode
ray tube to make a telly. The rest of the beast can make a surprisingly
comfortable sofa. Of course, you can make these things out of other
materials but some people think it's more tasteful and 'classy' when something is
made out of endangered species parts. Limited edition, you see.
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Anyway, can you tell the difference
between an African and Indian elephant?
Again - just by looking at it's arse?
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