1.   The elephants were formerly used to haul trunks from the logging operations.

2.   In Asia, the elephant is used for all manner of labor, perhaps most notably for hauling logs in areas where tractors cannot go.

3.   In Sri Lanka, elephants are used to transport people or heavy loads, such as lumber.

4.   Nast used the elephant so many times as a Republican symbol that it soon came to stand for the Grand Old Party.

5.   Powerful and highly intelligent, elephants are used as work animals to haul teak logs from the local forests, a job that calls for both brain and brawn.

6.   A longtime animal rights activist, Barker was in Washington to lobby for a bill that would ban circuses from using elephants.

7.   Domesticated Thai elephants are used for logging and as performers.

8.   Once indispensable for logging and transport, today domesticated elephants are used mainly in the tourist trade and by illegal loggers.

9.   Rich Hindu temples also use elephants during religious ceremonies, often to carry idols of the gods through the streets.

10.   The abbot uses the elephant to attract worshippers and their money, wildlife activists said Monday.