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An ocular way of estimating the height of an elephant is to measure the diameter of its foot and multiply it by 2pi - Mohd. Thayyab,Divisional Forest Officer, A.P., India.

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One method would be to measure the elephant's shadow and the shadow of a known object with a known height, then use the ratio of the two shadows to determine the elephant's height. Pi comes into play when calculating the angle of the sun's rays hitting the objects to account for the height difference.

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