Photo Gallery: April Fools' Day Pranks

04/01/2008

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White Elephant: In 1948 wildlife filmmaker Bernhard Grzimek fooled the press...
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White Elephant: In 1948 wildlife filmmaker Bernhard Grzimek fooled the press and public by announcing a mythical white elephant from Burma would be on display in Frankfurt Zoo on its way to Copenhagen. Unfortunately, the animal was merely a standard example of its species that had been covered in chalk. Pictured here are zoo keepers giving a 54-year-old elephant in Cologne Zoo the same treatment for the making of "Grzimek -- a German Legend."

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