1.   MATHEMATICIANS hunt elephants by going to Africa, throwing out everything that is not an elephant and catching one of whatever is left.

2.   Radio station owners were freed to hunt elephants by the telecommunications bill that President Clinton signed last Thursday.

3.   People can legally import ivory only if they hunted the elephant legally or if the ivory can be proven to be more than a century old.

4.   Locals hunted the elephants to keep them from damaging farmland and for their precious tusks.

5.   Many more Asian elephants will be hunted for their tusks if a worldwide ban on the ivory trade is lifted, Indian officials and environmentalists warned Saturday.

6.   Very few elephants are hunted for domestication nowadays.