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LynneSin

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29. There was a great documentary on Netflix about a US Elephant owner releasing his own elephant

Mon Jul 7, 2014, 06:30 PM

Jul 2014

It was a carnival owner who had owned the elephant since birth and I have to admit that the guy did his best to treat the elelphant kindly and make sure it was well-fed and decent accomadations. But the Elephant was getting into it's teen years and was acting out, probably because that's what teenagers do including teenage Elephants. And the owner felt in the end he had to let the Elephant go. And he did work hard to find decent accomadations although it wasn't easy. I guess it now lives somewhere in Tennessee at an Elephant Sancutuary in Tennessee.

http://www.elephants.com/

http://www.elephants.com/flora/floraBio.php - that is the elephant from the movie

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