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INKTOBER 2024 Day #28: JUMBO.

“When in doubt, put a plunger on something. As I’ve mentioned before, that’s my default when I don’t have a stronger idea. Elephants are big. There was a famous elephant named Jumbo, even. He eventually wound up in P.T. Barnum’s circus and later died after being hit by a train after a show. Apparently, the word jumbo meaning large came from this elephant, and subsequently was used to describe things as such, like jumbo jet, jumbo shrimp, jumbotron, etc. The things you learn when Inktobering.
Aside from that, elephants are pretty cool animals. They are incredibly intelligent, very social, and as already noted, massive and strong. In captivity, some of them will also paint with their dexterous trunks (I’m not sure which is crazier, an elephant learning to paint or the fact that an animal has a prehensile face). Along with whales, cephalopods, great apes and a bunch of bird species, I often wonder just how intelligent elephants are. It would be fascinating to cross that inter-species communication barrier.”

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