November 16, 2005.
The Philadelphia Zoo Elephants.

I congratulate the people of Philadelphia for treating their zoo inhabitants like family and making them a home and not just a containment. I don't know what that string is from the elephants mouth either. You know the animals don't worry about the litter that might make it into their enclosure.

Caption: Two of the Philadelphia Zoo's elephants show a mammoth appetite for bamboo shoots. That appetite - they consume several hundred pounds of vegetation a day - is a major point of conflict between elephants in the wild and humans.