Adjective modifier

• captive: This was in response to the untimely death of Pole Pole, a young captive elephant.

• African: Do you really want the mating call of an African elephant blaring out at you at two o'clock in the morning without warning?

• wild: A herd of wild elephant can do a great deal of damage to a farmer's crops.

• year-old: Wanted: Treadmill for an Elephant Maggie, the 22 year-old African elephant, has been a resident of the Alaska Zoo since 1983.

Modifies a noun

• tusk: Showing a man in patterned robes seated under an umbrella with two elephant tusks at his feet.

• dung: Fact: Did you know that a single elephant dung pat can attract 4,000 dung beetles in 30 minutes?

• orphanage: We're going to try and organize a trip to take them to the elephant orphanage in Kandy after easter.

• ivory: Born Free were shocked to learn of a huge illegal shipment of elephant ivory that has been seized in Hong Kong.

• seal: The pups of the elephant seals weigh 50 kg at birth in October.

• safari: We stop for a short elephant safari into the surrounding jungle, before lunch in a local restaurant.

Noun used with modifier

• bull: He stepped onto the stage and light a joint which would have wasted a bull elephant.

• zoo: Male zoo elephants are often kept in solitary confinement due to the greater difficulty in handling them.

Possessives

• trunk: The curtains were much more effective in practice than the old elephant's trunk.

Preposition: in

• zoo: Surely now it is now time to review the whole issue of keeping elephants in zoos.