Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Over the past 100 years, Thai elephants have plummeted in number from roughly 100,000 ...

The Thai Elephant Orchestra is, remarkably, just what it sounds like. At a conservation center in Thailand, made for former work animals with nowhere to go, a group of elephants has been assembled and ...

LAMPANG, Thailand — What do you do with an out-of-work elephant? If you’re Richard Lair, you teach it to play music. It’s no joke. With Phangkhwat on the gong and Luuk Kob on the one-stringed diddley ...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Reuters Life!) - The Thai Elephant Orchestra is about to release a third CD and, like all real artists, the world's only non-human musical ensemble doesn't give a thump about the ...

Training an animal, Pavlov-style, to do human-designed tricks is one thing, but to have it come, voluntarily, to music practice is quite another. By John Burnside When I first heard about it, I ...

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