An elephant suddenly surged out of the foliage about 20m away, staring directly at us.
After a tense few minutes, the elephant rejoins the rest of the herd, trampling through bulrushes nearby.
The trails are named the Elephant Walks in homage to the wild elephants that once lived here.
The taxi driver looked at me, looked at the elephant and let out a low moan of terror.
When he opened his eyes, the elephant was gone, back into the bush from which it had materialised.
Finally, the elephant stables, 12 chambers that would have fit two elephants each, now stand empty and silent.
"Let's give the elephant in the room a name: It's called the Boston Marathon, " he said.
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For a poor villager in Africa, poaching an elephant for its tusks is easy money.
But the elephant in the room is the disappearance of any transatlantic security need.
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Before me opens up, in the semi-darkness, a field of rubbish and stones and elephant grass.
"I get to ride the elephant in the second half of the show, " she said.
It is a great white elephant, held back by the feeble condition of Cuba's economy.
And they each came back with obviously very differing opinions of what an elephant is.
And a wise man asked these blind men to tell him what the elephant looked like.
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"The law is a slow-moving elephant, and technology is a graceful gazelle, " she said.
An elephant in the park attacked the vehicle on a road at 6:30 a.m.
It is unclear why the elephant became aggressive, said the park spokesman William Mabasa.
Though selling African elephant ivory has generally been banned since 1989, poaching is once again rampant.
One competitor, Elephant Dung Paper in Lampang, Thailand, sells paper in Japan, Europe and North America.
Some, like the elephant, are capable of mourning for their kind if one dies.
And so economists are now saying, look, this is like the elephant in the room.
The only realistic alternative is to create a legal market for ivory and other elephant products.
In fact, a single elephant bird egg is about the equivalent of 120 normal chicken eggs.
After half a mile we reach a clearing, where Francis points out elephant tracks.
Concerned by the continuing slaughter of pachyderms, authorities have finalised a plan to protect elephant habitat.
In some Congo basin forests, poaching kills up to 10 percent of the elephant population annually.
The teams of scouts and elephant keepers operate 24 hours a day, year round.
It has been about as easy to stop elephant killing as to stop drug use.
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