CAN ELEPHANTS TELL THE TIME?
Elephants are credited with all manmer of curious qualities, and here is a story which suggests .that they can even tell the time. Elephants are extensively used in the timber industry in Burma for transporting logs of wood from place to place. Usually it is one log at a time that the animal carries in his trunk; sometimes he might manage two if they are not too large. The hours of work are fixed, and in the case of the elephant concerned in this story, they ended at 5 p.m., when he went along home to rest.. His owner, thinking that he would make extra money by staying on a little later, took the elephant to a log of wood, but to his astonishment the elephant refused to touch it, pushing it aside and beginning to groan. At last he was led away to his rest, but the next morning he went •traigbt to the same log and lifted it cheerfully. He had made his protest pad was ready to work again.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 17
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177CAN ELEPHANTS TELL THE TIME? Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 17
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