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The animal appearing on the cover of MCSE in a Nutshell: The Windows 2000 Exams is an African elephant (Elephas maximus). Elephants are the world’s largest terrestrial animals, striking not only for their great size (4-6 tons), but also their trunk. The trunk is used for both smell and touch, as well as for picking things up and as a snorkel when swimming. The most important use of the trunk is obtaining food and water. Another distinguishing feature is the tusks, modified incisors of durable ivory, for which man has hunted the elephant nearly to extinction. Like right- or left-handed people, elephants favor one tusk.

Elephants spend most of their day—up to 17 hours—preparing and eating their food, which consists of several hundred pounds per day of bamboo, bark, grass, roots, wood, and other vegetation. They generally sleep standing up for short periods. Elephants also take frequent baths in water or mud, and, when the weather is hot, fan themselves with their ears. They can trumpet loudly, and also often make a kind of relaxed purring or rumbling noise.

The lifespan of an elephant is about 40 to 50 years, though a few live into their sixties. They have keen hearing, and can learn verbal commands, increasing their popularity as circus stars and beasts of burden. Elephants have also been used in war, mostly notably by the Carthaginian general Hannibal.

Elephant cemeteries, where old and sick elephants congregate to die, are a myth. Experiments have proved that they are not afraid of mice, but do fear rabbits and some dogs. They have no natural enemies apart from man.

Catherine Morris was the production editor, and Paulette Miley was the copyeditor for MCSE in a Nutshell: The Windows 2000 Exams . Linley Dolby was the proofreader. Rachel Wheeler, Claire Cloutier, and Catherine Morris provided quality control. Pamela Murphy wrote the index. Interior composition was done by Molly Shangraw, Gabe Weiss, and Catherine Morris.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is from The Illustrated Natural History: Mammalia. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with Quark™XPress 4.1 using the ITC Garamond Condensed font. Melanie Wang and David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Alicia Cech. Anne-Marie Vaduva implemented the design in FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano using Macromedia FreeHand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5. This colophon was written by Nancy Kotary.

The online edition of this book was created by the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff Liggett.