http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 071923.ece
Comments:Meet Thong-Kum and Thong-Tang, believed to be the world’s first set of male twin elephants, who arrived two weeks ago and who already weigh in at a healthy 80kg (12½st). They were born two hours apart to a cheering crowd in the rural area of Tha Lad in Surin, Thailand.
“They are a bit wrinkly and ugly at the moment but I’m sure as they grow up they will get really cute,” said one onlooker who had travelled from a local town just to see them and their 35-year-old mother, Phang Thong Khun.
Twins occur very rarely, and survival rates are low because of the nutritional needs placed on the mother. Thailand’s other pair of elephant twins, the females Jim and Joom, were born in 1993 but one died nine years ago.
Elephants are held in high esteem in Thailand and have become a national symbol, although their population has plummeted from 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century to about 4,000 today.
So thats it then, Pandas are so yesterday, and elephants are the new black. Expect a 24 hr a day live eletwins reality channel from True within the next few days - catch it on channel 12764.
In other news Takky Skinwash, on his Twatter channel iminnocentofeverythinghonest@twatter.com, claims that the twin birth is a sign of his rightous cause, the conception must have taken place under his government and would never have happened under Abbadogs watch, and encouraged his sheep like flock of minions to bleat in unison as a thanks to the invisible third hand fat guy in the sky. Veera Lysalot, spokesman for the great unwashed, said that the birth was a clear sign of the double standards permeating Thai society, , called for the twins to be called Prai and Ammat, and suggested baptising them in blood.
Mobile phone lines yesterday were temporarily blocked by the sheer volume of calls between street stall soft toy sellers and their manufacturer sources in China in an attempt to order 50 million elephant soft toys.
If I could reach the rear parcel shelf, I would take a tissue out of my "genuine" 24Ct Gold (he sold me that as well) tissue box holder and wipe away the tears. 