Elephun

I asked one of my best friends what her dream job would be, and her response was that she'd spend her days working with African elephants on a nature reserve. I don't know if double-majoring in English and Philosophy at Bucknell University is the proper prerequisite for such a job, but what I do know is that hanging out with elephants in Tanzania is probably a lot more fun than hanging out with coworkers in an office. Apart from being the best animals at the zoo, here are a few other reasons why elephants are fantastic:

1. They spend about 16 hours a day eating.
2. They're the only animals on Earth that can't jump or run.
3. Elephants have dominant tusks, meaning they are right-tusked or left-tusked, just as you are right-handed or left-handed.
4. Although males usually live alone, sometimes they form groups called bachelor herds.
5. The average lifespan of an elephant in the wild is 60 to 70 years.
6. The heaviest elephant in the world weighed 26,000 pounds.
7. Elephants display human emotion such as love, grief and joy and have great memories.
8. A painting by 8 elephants in Thailand sold for $39,000. That's 3,250 hours of pay from my internship. Before taxes. 

Click here to learn how to adopt an elephant. This is the only thing on my Christmas list.