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Don't forget Surin's Elephant Roundup

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19860406
Author:Michael Carlton

SURIN, Thailand To most Westerners, elephants are curious creatures seen at the zoo or in a circus parade, walking trunk-to-tail and carrying flimsily dressed showgirls wearing feather headdresses.

You may know that Hannibal used elephants to cross the Alps in the Second Punic War, and that humorist H.H. Munro once wrote that "women and elephants never forget an injury." And many of us grew up watching Dumbo flapping his big ears and soaring away on the wind in a marvelous children's story.

Other than that - and a common concern over the slaughter of elephants in Africa for their ivory - ...

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