The National Elephant Center of two females and two males arrived from Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park. Completion of the initial plan is likely to take up to 10 years. The National Elephant Center is located on in Fellsmere, Florida. The Elephant Center will feature on-site housing for staff and two barns for Asian and African elephants, each capable of supporting nine animals. The design calls for barns to be connected by a central hub, surrounded by a habitat that can be subdivided depending on the needs of the elephants. The largest area of the Elephant Center is the Central Elephant Meander, a area
Elephant joke and reject the authority of traditional knowledge. He draws a parallel between this and the counterculture of the 1960s, stating that ""disestablishment" was the purpose of both," pointing to the sexual revolution and noting that "[p]erhaps it was no accident that many of the elephant jokes emphasized the intrusion of sex into the most innocuous areas." In their paper, "On elephantasy and elephanticide", Abrahams and Dundes consider elephant jokes to be convenient disguises for racism, and symbolised the nervousness of white people about the civil rights movement. Whilst blatantly racialist jokes became less acceptable, elephant jokes were a useful proxy.