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White elephant (animal)
A white elephant (also albino elephant) is a rare kind of elephant, but not a distinct species. Although often depicted as snow white, their skin is normally a soft reddish-brown, turning a light pink when wet.〔(Men ride albino elephants ), Reuters via The Atlantic, 1 March 2012.〕 They have fair eyelashes and toenails. The traditional "white elephant" is commonly misunderstood as being albino, but the Thai term ''chang samkhan'', actually translates as 'auspicious elephant', being "white" in terms of an aspect of purity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thailandelephant.org/en/royalstable.html )〕
White elephants are only nominally white. Of those currently kept by the Burmese rulers — General Than Shwe regards himself as the heir of the Burmese kings — one is grey and the other three are pinkish, but all are officially white. The king of Thailand also keeps a number of white elephants. Former U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew once presented a white elephant to King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
==Hinduism==
The white elephant is considered to belong to the god ''Indra''. The name of the elephant is ''Airavata'' and it is a flying elephant. Airavata is made the King of all elephants by Lord Indra.
King Bimbisara had one such white elephant, which was conquered by him from the forest when the elephant was in his Musth period, and named him ''Sechanaka'' which means "watering" as the elephant used to water the plants by himself without any prior training. It is said that the cost of this elephant was more the half of Magadha. Later he gave it to his son Vihallakumara, this caused envy in his other son Ajatashatru who tried to snatch it many times, which later resulted in two of the most terrible wars in history called ''Mahasilakantaka & Ratha-musala''. (see Ajatashatru).
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