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This week, we have beautiful jewel caterpillars that look like they were sculpted out of slick crystal, a massive architectural concept inspired by Twitter, artist's concepts of super Earths and black holes, but really, it's all about this guy. A mere few days old, this baby elephant still lacks a name. We left our suggestions in the gallery, but welcome yours!


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36 Comments

name him DALÍ

How about Nebula or Nebi for short.

Please, It has got to be Otto. He looks like an Otto clearly!

Good names, to bad they are all wrong, his name shall be Felix

dumbo

Oliver! :D

dumbo is dumb bro

Sani young, because he looks young but that beard suggest he is an old soul haha

I think curly of the three stooges would suit it excellently.

Beardy

He should be named "sita" because it's a cute name, says my girlfriend.

I like the name, " Elephant ".
Simple and to the point, simuliar to my name Robot.

Elijah

Noor

Here is another suggestion.

Often in life many times the thing we adore we call, baby.

So, I like this elephant to receive love all its life and be adored. So lets name is , " Baby ".

My mother died last year and this is my first mother’s day, without my mom. As a baby to age 5 or so, I had an immature immune system. In those baby years, I came close to dying many times. It later grew and I am fine life now. But I have wonderful memories of my parents, my mother always being positive and there for me with much love.

I love you MOM, I MISS YOU SO MUCH! xoxo

.............................
Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!

Call him PopSci

"Esperanza" which means hope in Spanish because she is a spark of hope for species survival.

He's ridiculously cute
for names how about:

Snuffy (as in snuffleupagas)
Truffle
Snagglepuss
Guido
Spanky
King Leonidas
Cookie

Fuzzy

Barbara Streisand

Fat-head

we shall name it Quelloforte. Italian for strong one.

Ramu

Tiny-phant

Fluffy

Neville, he looks adorable and shy therefore he should be named after the great Neville from Harry Potter.

Kevin Wilson,
Not everything is as it appears. eg. Take the frequently used expression...Here is a tunnel...If the whiskers go in so will the cat. Thats not the correct expression..?

The expression is; If the whiskers go in, the Cat can turn around. ( and so the cat can exit the tunnel ).

Here'a new one ? Consider the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
This is an an 8 year star count. eg. circa 930,000 Galaxies
and another of 500,000,000 (five hundred million stars and galaxies ) Read very carefully.

If it takes three Hypervelocity Black Holes to collide in order to make a Star that is "incandescent," then at some earlier time, long ago, you must treble the above Sloan Survey figures, which will give you (the absolutely massive product representing the number of hypervelocity black holes, that were once floating about the Universe, that had eventually collided

Here's the crunchline;

The Question is; Where are these Hypervelocity Black Holes now. Answer; They are gone....!

Therefore; The source of the Hypervelocity Black Holes
either must be receding from us, (ie; there was no Big Bang ) or we are receding from the Source...? Or the Source has ceased to jet ! (no big bang ) Kevin Wilson

name him "PROMISE". I promise to have less carbon footprint and be more mindfull of the world to insure his future.

John Evans thinks the name should be Snoutel

Dangle

Chuck Norris, because Chuck Norris never forgets he can crush a man with one foot.

BO jangles

ja linga

haski

Bo jangles should be the name.

Kevin Wilson,
Heres the situation...! You are in the local library and are observing fantastic colour images of Galaxies, Stars, and Solar images. The captions refer to diagonal streaks as "Sunspots". How can streaks be Sunspots.

1) The Solar core is jetting twin jets.
2) The jets lie diametrically opposite other on the Equator.
3) The jets are identical.
4) They possess an identical vector component and jet to
an identical altitude toward the surface.
5) Due to the fact that the twin jet locations lie on the
Equator and the fact that the Sun and Suns core
rotates at a 7 degree angle to the ecliptic this has a
unique effect. That effect is to generate massive twin
spirals (like bed springs, on in each hemisphere.) The
spiral loops surface as linear contrails and we call
these surfacing contrails Sunspots.

The above represents "the effect" we call Sunspots.
The "cause is Jetting", "Angular Momentum" and the Suns
inclination to the ecliptic.
Kevin Wilson

How about naming the elephant. "Babe"

There can be only one, fitting name that is.

He's obviously my "Precious".

I think that his name called the Jupiter


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