Almost every temple elephant carries a spray of pale freckles on its trunk and ears. The patches are natural depigmentation, seen in wild herds too, and the myths we attach to elephants say a great deal about how we treat them.
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Elephants are imprinted in my earliest memory as the first animal I ever truly saw. That great pachyderm […]
We establish our interest and delight in nature programmes about the lives of animals on television and ironically, our enjoyment of meat side by side, without thinking animals had rights, will we ever begin to see both the wild ones and the ones we habitually eat as having lives of their own?