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At last, we find the elephants....
« Jambo elephants ! How big you are, how large are your tusks and ears ! I already met elephants in Laos (
see Doudou in Laos) but they were much smaller than you. Are you giant elephants ?
- No, answers the elephant. We are simply different from our Asian cousins. We are bigger than them, and humans never succeeded in domesticating us as they did with them... What are you doing here ?
- I come in the name of Twiga the giraffe and I’m looking for an elephant called Tembo in order to be introduced to the King.

- I’m sorry, I am Tembo the elephant but indeed we elephants have no time to help you ! Every day we have to eat an enormous amount of these long herbs and cover very long distances to find them. But the King is not very far from here, you will find his daughter, the young lioness Kiara, playing in the long herbs near the hippo pool... Norbert will show you the way ! »

© JiCé SOWA & Valérie CHERY - May 2007

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