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Elephants Can Tell Jokes

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At the age of 22. John Barrett went to Burma to work for a firm extracting teak from vast remote areas of forest. Teams of elephants were essential to the operation, and by working with them John Barrett developed a respect and affection for elephants which he has never lost. He reminisces with Dilys Breese about these lovable and intelligent animals, and how they lived and worked in the forest.
' Elephants are remarkable animals.' says John. ' Other animals can laugh at jokes, but elephants can tell jokes.' BBC Bristol

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John Barrett
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Dilys Breese
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