Wikipedia say there are three types of elephants in the world: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Indian or Asian elephant. Asian elephants have smaller, um, ears. The Wiki folks obviously forgot about the Thai elephant, the pachyderm with a taste for baht instead of bananas.

This is one of those shots you just can’t plan for. It’s a case of being in the right place, at the right time, with your camera at the ready. We were at one of the elephant training camps in Chiang Mai; the show was over and the mahouts brought their mounts into the crowd to perform a new trick – putting their trainer’s straw hat on touri heads. One taught his beast an additional trick: how to close the sale.

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