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[Fact Off]

Elephants and bees

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/893601

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/632820

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/12/beehive-fences/

https://www.livescience.com/33261-elephants-afraid-of-mice-.html

Elephant skin wrinkles

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/607368

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06257-3

Computer simulation image: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06257-3/figures/4

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2010JF001842

https://elephantconservation.org/elephants/just-for-kids/

[Ask the Science Couch]

Elephant communication/grief/etc.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/animal-grief/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/do-animals-experience-grief-180970124/

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/11/04/1497634.htm

https://www.audubon.org/news/how-do-elephants-talk-each-other

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/unforgettable-elephants-crack-the-code-of-elephant-communication/5885/

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-internet-appears-to-believe-elephants-worship-the-moon/

https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/context/interdisciplinary-seminar/the-elephant-before-darwin

[Butt One More Thing]

Elephant gold enema

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442189/pdf

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-16th-century-pope-buried-his-pet-elephant-under-the-vatican