The reader is always write. Use our feedback form to let us know how we can improve this site. The operation was headline news here in Bangkok for a couple of weeks, although the question of what the elephant was doing in Burma was never answered.
Elephants are amazing animals.
The overall impossibility of their size and prehensile trunk is often astonishing. Their relationship with man is hard to understand. No one seems to know when humans started to make use of the Asian elephant. In Thailand, it appears that the relationship has gone on for about 1,000 years. Elephants were used in war as well as in royal processions.