Jim, an
elephant groom, Sir Robert Fossett's Circus, 1975.
Elephants are usually amiable and intelligent – except when confronted
with mice. Even Jumbo, the 11'4" 19th Century giant elephant, was rumoured
to have been terrified when a mouse found it's way into his cage. Apparently
it is the possibility of the mouse crawling near it's trunk and being inadvertently
inhaled that causes it so much unease.
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