By Russell Working
HOWEVER BAD YOUR MONDAY may be, at least an elephant (presumably) didn’t smash through your kitchen wall and snitch from your larder.
In a video posted June 21, an elephant prowls around in a kitchen in Thailand. Apparently this sort of elephantine rascality happens from time to time where elephants share habitat with humans.
In Gabon, a homeowner noted, “Rabi the elephant decided to investigate the patio of my house from the inside.” And this month another Thailander recorded an elephant who entered his home to look around, then ambled back to the forest.
Elephants are intelligent creatures, though never entirely tamed. In 1899 Ringling Bros. boasted it had “The Three Greatest Herds of Performing Elephants in the World.” Among them were dancing elephants and a group of them “actually taught to play upon brass band instruments … presenting beyond doubt the biggest band in weight, lung-power and laugh-making extant.”
Yet one description from the Route Book acknowledged both the smarts and the wildness of the beasts. Monsieur Jean Marchand headed a “company of educated unwieldy brute actors, in a unique exhibition of elephantine sagacity, introducing the famous pugilistic pachyderms.”
An elephant dustup at a circus in Kazan, Russia, in March demonstrates just how ferocious these tuskers can be, even when supposedly “tamed.”
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The Elephant Box 
Elephants are strange and fascinating.
So is this a blog to show that animals can be as mischievous and sometimes as mean as people, or is there another message your trying to share?