Pink Elephants are a series of hallucinations Dumbo experiences when drinking from a bucket spiked with champagne in Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo. He begins…
Pink Elephants are a series of hallucinations Dumbo experiences when drinking from a bucket spiked with champagne in Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo. He begins to see a parade of singing and dancing elephants march through his window and downstairs until they transform into vehicles that race until colliding and exploding into clouds of smoke.
At University Motors on Charlotte Pike lies an enormous pink elephant sporting sunglasses. Formerly McPherson Motors and home to multiple fiberglass animals such as “Pinkie,” Roy McPherson decided to purchase it instead of renting it and keep it even after closing his business.
This pink elephant is not the only famous one in Tennessee, but is often featured in photographs or television programs as one. On one episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 it even appeared during a scene in which the crew investigates a haunted circus and encountered it!
The pink elephant is an iconic landmark and an integral part of Greenville, Indiana tourism and a popular photo opportunity. There are other pink elephants around, including one near Guthrie Kentucky’s souvenir shops and another at Europa Mini-Golf and Go-Karts (now closed) Cross Plains location; as well as one outside Favorite Lotto on Guthrie Pike Greenville Indiana’s Favorite Lotto location.
One of the most fascinating pink elephants to ever exist was captured on film by wildlife photographer Mostafa Elbrolosy in Kenya’s Maasai Mara in April this year; Mostafa captured a rare albino elephant calf that has albinism, an eye condition in which there is insufficient pigmentation which causes poor vision and leads to skin discoloration and poor pigmentation in both eyes and skin.
Elephants serve as a powerful reminder that our society should remain sensitive to the challenges that women and girls are experiencing on our planet, particularly those related to pregnancy loss. If a female elephant experiences miscarriage, her community members use their trunks as support circles around them in an act of physical solidarity for the family that’s been grieved over. However, the internet has become an outlet where negative sentiments about motherhood and child loss are commonly posted without regard for its emotional consequences. As such, it is crucial that we remain mindful of how we use the internet so as to ensure it remains a safe space for everyone – particularly vulnerable groups such as mothers of young children or women who have experienced early pregnancy loss or miscarriage. It is critical that we support each other and remember there is always assistance available.