Mac Dunwoody happened to be in the right place at the right time last summer, when he stumbled across a herd of 100 life-like elephants migrating along the scenic cliff walk on Newport, Rhode Island.

The majority of the wooden elephants will be on display in The Commons area in Hermann Park, with a few others scattered ...

It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to replace the endangered animals in India's Hindu temples. Made of fibreglass ...