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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.

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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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1
Why are there elephants in Germany?? And why the hell do they eat Christmas trees??
Posted by katy on January 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM
2
FIVE??!
Posted by Robin Sparkles on January 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM
3
THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Posted by onion on January 6, 2009 at 12:04 PM
4
German Elephants Eating Christian Trees
Posted by CommonKnowledge on January 6, 2009 at 12:04 PM
5
Then they pick their teeth with a menorah.
Posted by sockpuppet on January 6, 2009 at 12:10 PM
6
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.
Posted by TheMisanthrope on January 6, 2009 at 12:10 PM
7
@5 made me lol.
Posted by spoiler alert on January 6, 2009 at 12:17 PM
8
That's the first time I've seen an elephant with two trunks.
Posted by Urgutha Forka on January 6, 2009 at 12:23 PM
9
Why? Why do German elephants hate Christmas?! Somebody notify Bill O'Reilly!
Posted by ben on January 6, 2009 at 12:26 PM
10
How is it that this isn't a Lindy West post? I'm confused.
Posted by Uncle Vinny on January 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM
11
You have to remove the tinsel first, right? How about popcorn?
Posted by flamingbanjo on January 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM
12
Elephants can eat wood?
Posted by The CHZA on January 6, 2009 at 12:54 PM
13
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.
Posted by onion on January 6, 2009 at 1:04 PM
14
btw 8, the pun kicks ass.
Posted by onion on January 6, 2009 at 1:05 PM
15
Someone be ready to do an elephantine Heimlich, though...
Posted by cdc on January 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM
16
Somehow it seems weird for an Indian animal to be eating a Teutonic, alpine diet. Bet their shit smells festive, though!
Posted by Yeek on January 6, 2009 at 1:56 PM
17
I was wondering about this. Do elephants get the shits from eating pine, spruce, and fir?
Posted by Greg on January 6, 2009 at 2:44 PM
18
WPZ does this every year: http://woodlandparkzblog.blogspot.com/20…
Posted by tim on January 6, 2009 at 2:45 PM
19
That looks like it's gonna hurt coming out the other end.
Posted by NapoleonXIV on January 6, 2009 at 3:19 PM
20
The Elephant Who Barfed Up Christmas is my favorite holiday story.
Posted by alight on January 6, 2009 at 3:28 PM
21
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.
Posted by Chronos on January 6, 2009 at 8:32 PM

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