Elephant Conservation Gifts

"I feel kind of responsible. When the General said he wanted to cross the Alps and march to Rome I just laughed and said, 'That's a long trip. I guess we better pack along some trunks.'"

"We found the poor thing stranded on the beach last summer and decided to adopt it."

Indian rajah rowing elephant in a monsoon flood.

'He's not a pet. He's an endangered species.'

Polluted geese

"Cross-breeding oops #1." "The Cougadooodle"

"This has nothing to do with you ... this is between us and the tree."

The interested bystanders.

"I just assumed that the whale we adopted would stay in the ocean."

"Wild-caught, farm-raised, lab-grown, beach-found, or aquarium-harvested."

"Tallyho!"

"It was a lot more satisfying before 'catch and release.'"

"Don't just forage - upcycle!"

Save the unicorn.

"Only one pailful? Did they have water restrictions like we do?"

'What will we do when the ice melts?'

"I've never had a bird's eye view of anything."

"Matthew, did we agree to adopt a whale?"

Zoo: No Hunting.

"I think we have run out of time..."

Environment Friendly House.

"What's remarkable is that just last week he was lying despondent on the beach."

Igloo for birds.

'You see, we don't have any children, so he's kind of our baby.'

'Good grief! Aren't you extinct yet?'

'What do you want to be if there's any world left when we grow up?'

'Boy, being an endangered species is quite hard: I get weighed, tagged, filmed, recorded and studied by scientists: I have no privacy...'

The circus diver.

'But Honey, if we have kids, we won't be endangered anymore: We will lose all the social benefits and attention...'

'By Jove, we've finally found it! the fabled elephants' disco!'

Ecology.

'I don't trust humans: Some times, they throw us bread, some other times, they shoot at us!'