re: Why Doesn't Alabama Buy an Elephant

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The African Elephant is considerably larger and is not trainable.

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Willie Theison, who manages the elephant program for the zoo, doesn't often get animals from the African wild.

"Now I have to transition into their world instead of them transitioning into mine," he said. Part of his responsibilities include training the animals in basic cues, which would ease the process of bathing and footwork, he said. Since the animals were trained in an African elephant orphanage, they already know the commands for the tricks -- but only if they're spoken in Sinhalese.

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