“Still, it was impossible to answer the question that is causing so much consternation: is Alaska’s only elephant happy?” - The New York Times

“The hypothesis, proposed by Dr. Robert Dudley of the University of California at Berkeley, was the subject of a symposium at the meetings of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in New Orleans in January. Scientists say the idea has already led researchers into curious new fields of inquiry, from pondering drunken elephants and tipsy songbirds to studying forests full of fermenting fruit.” - The New York Times

“Farmers in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe have hit on a novel way to keep elephants from trampling their fields. They surround their crops with rows of chili peppers, whose smell is noxious to elephants. The peppers prevent battles that have harmed both man and animal, save crops and give farmers a lucrative new product to export.” - The New York Times

“The small Borneo elephant represents the last remnant of an ancient lineage, a team of international biologists has determined. The finding, based on DNA samples, overturns a long-held prevailing theory of the animals’ origins: that they were descended from domesticated elephants that reverted to the wild.” -
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“Foreigners may imagine that Africans grow up outrunning lions, monitoring the roar of elephants or gazing at giraffes loping past their homes. But many Africans, if not most, have never been face to face with the animals that tourists come to see.” - The New York Times

“Officials estimate that more than 700,000 pills are smuggled into Thailand every year, mostly through the Golden Triangle from Myanmar. They permeate society, from campuses to offices to villages, even to working elephants.” - The New York Times

Elephants are encountered as are many other animals. - The New York Times