В детстве во время похода в цирк несколько раз слышал одну и ту же историю, что когда дрессировщики бьют слонов железными крюками. Последним совершенно не больно, по причине их толстой кожи. Но видя жестокость человека - слонам становится грустно и как-то совсем не по себе. Отчего они выглядят испуганными и начинают слушаться дрессировщика. А у
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On September 11, 1916, a hotel worker named Red Eldridge was hired as an assistant elephant trainer by the circus. On the evening of September 12 he was killed by Mary in Kingsport, Tennessee, while taking her to a nearby pond to splash and drink. There are several accounts of his death but the most widely accepted version is that he prodded her behind the ear with a hook after she reached down to nibble on a watermelon rind. She went into a rage, snatched Eldridge with her trunk, threw him against a drink stand and deliberately stepped on his head, crushing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_the_elephant
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