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The white elephant (likewise pale skinned person elephant)
is an uncommon sort of the white elephant, however not a different species. In
spite of the fact that frequently portrayed as snow white, their skin is ordinarily
a delicate rosy-tan, turning a light pink when wet. They have reasonable
eyelashes and toenails.
The white elephants are just ostensibly white. Of those at
present kept by the Burmese rulers — General Than Shew sees himself as the
beneficiary of the Burmese lords — one is light black and the other three are
pinkish, yet all are formally white. The lord of Thailand additionally keeps
various the white elephants. Previous U.s. VP Spiro Agnew once introduced a
white elephant to King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
