Tamar Elephant Park

Now with my science hat on, I was trying to get started-up.
Living in the West Country, or Wessex as Hardy coined it,
I was a bit hard pressed, feeling a bit Jude the Obscure to be honest about it.

France has lots of nice science research stations
dotted around thanks to EU funds, very nice. Rumour has it that
EU grants were not applied for in the South West, as the deadlines
were missed, hope its not so. Anyway
Exeter closed its Chemistry Department,
also has no elephant science park,
Bristol and Bath are thinking about breaking ground with
an elephant science park,
but dont think its happened yet.
Plymouth has a wonderful elephant science park, up on the road to Tavistock
behind the Derriford Hospital. Only problem is the breeding plan is a bit upside down.
Its been built a year (2008) with plenty of units for 10-20 elephants, but units
for one small elephant are a bit slim. You can rent a desk and 2 chairs for £150
a month, but I can balance an elephant that big in a shed.
Tamar Safari Park to give it its full name.
Full of White Elephants then this particular enclosure at
the moment, as big elephants from little elephants grow.

Sadly for me there is a real elephant factory 2 miles down the road that
employs about 200 elephants making a biomedical product
I co-invented in the USA about 15 years ago.
It would be nice to grow some more scientific
elephants this close to home.

But not for the moment, as events are a changing,
and my particular elephant has recently packed a trunk....

Actually the last photo is of the business park of
Simon Fraser University in Canada,
an example of parallel evolution, phenotypic similarity,
whichever, the latter SFU version is stuffed with elephants,
do hope that Tamar can achieve that too.