Conspiracy, Curiosity, and Remembering Betty the Elephant Almost 200 Years Later

Warwickshire artist’s surprise elephant tribute to raise cash for rescue centre

A WILDLIFE artist from Warwickshire has created a surprise elephant tribute, which could go on to help a whole herd. When Louise Hancox sat down to draw her first-ever elephant, she thought she was creating a tribute to Faa Sai— a rescued elephant lost in last year’s devastating floods at Elephant Nature Park in Northern Thailand. But after sending a copy of the finished piece to the sanctuary’s parent charity, Save Elephant Foundation, she rece…

Conspiracy, curiosity, and remembering Betty the Elephant almost 200 years later

GLOCESTER – Sunday, May 25, marked Elephant Day in Chepachet, in honor of Betty “The Learned Elephant” and the day she was shot and killed in the village – May 25, 1826.