Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Breaking News Dear Everyone Who's Ever Longed to See an Elephant Eat a Christmas Tree
Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:58 AM
You're welcome.
National Geographic reports:
"Elephants around [Germany] will enjoy a delicious lunch today consisting of about five Christmas trees each," Ragnar Kuehne of Zoo Berlin told the Reuters news service.
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Why are there elephants in Germany?? And why the hell do they eat Christmas trees??
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FIVE??!
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THANK YOU THANK YOU.
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German Elephants Eating Christian Trees
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Then they pick their teeth with a menorah.
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I hope the German Christmas Trees not treated like our trees are.
Our trees are so chemically awesome that they burn like the Aurora Borealis.
Our trees are so chemically awesome that they burn like the Aurora Borealis.
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@5 made me lol.
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That's the first time I've seen an elephant with two trunks.
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Why? Why do German elephants hate Christmas?! Somebody notify Bill O'Reilly!
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How is it that this isn't a Lindy West post? I'm confused.
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You have to remove the tinsel first, right? How about popcorn?
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Elephants can eat wood?
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elephants can eat whole or eat parts of some pretty big trees. they'll knock em over, and then eat leaves, younger branches (which to us might look big), and bark. the african ones are the environmental engineers that are responsible for keeping much of the african savanna a savanna (open, not thickly forested).
so the xmas tree snack seems to fit.
so the xmas tree snack seems to fit.
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btw 8, the pun kicks ass.
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Someone be ready to do an elephantine Heimlich, though...
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Somehow it seems weird for an Indian animal to be eating a Teutonic, alpine diet. Bet their shit smells festive, though!
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I was wondering about this. Do elephants get the shits from eating pine, spruce, and fir?
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WPZ does this every year: http://woodlandparkzblog.blogspot.com/20…
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That looks like it's gonna hurt coming out the other end.
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The Elephant Who Barfed Up Christmas is my favorite holiday story.
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Ugh. I'm mildly allergic to pine sap (break out in a rash and swell up if I touch a pine tree) so the very thought is moderately disgusting to me.
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