elephants

Elephants Save Tourists From Tsunami
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2661

Thai Elephant Orchestra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Elephant_Orchestra

Elephant Sets Antelope Free
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,6119,2-7-1442_1344710,00.html
("She carefully undid all the latches with her trunk, swung the gate open and stood back with her herd.")

Elephant Shuns Jumbo Treadmill
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060519_elephant.html

This elephant research binge was started from one of my dad's paranoiac comments, this time about avoiding tsunamis when I am in Vietnam by carefully watching the elephants to see if they are running for higher ground. Are there elephants to be seen in Vietnam? Who knows! But the story about the elephant freeing the antelope makes me cry every time I think about it. She carefully undid the latches!