
Valerie, a 26-year-old female African elephant picks Obama over McCain at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. (Oct. 29, 2008).
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14-year-old African elephant Sweni plays soccer with her keeper Vanessa Hagedorn, in her open-air enclosure at the zoo of Wuppertal, Germany (June 6, 2008).
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Animal expert Dave Salmoni helps Jay Leno feed an African elephant (Oct. 29, 2009).
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One-year-old African elephant Tika and her mother Sabie are seen at the Wuppertal zoo in Germany (July 10, 2008).
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An elephant removes a motorbike damaged by the tsunami in the city of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra (Jan. 19, 2005).
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Five-year-old Guy Davies has one ambition in life: to work with elephants in Billy Smart's circus (Jan. 1965).
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Thandi, a 16-year-old African elephant, practices getting in and out of a semi-trailer with the help of Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium biologist Craig Wilcox (June 17, 1997).
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African elephant Sweni paints a picture, while her son Tamo watches, during a presentation for photographers at Wuppertal zoo (June 6, 2008).
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Burma the Elephant steps over BBC Radio 1 DJs in London (Nov. 1967).
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Elephants walk through a flooded and damaged area in the tsunami-ravaged town of Banda Aceh (Jan. 28, 2005).
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One of David Smart's elephants boards the bus to Earl's Court (July 16, 1980).
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