“We introduced him to one of our elephants as Beefy and he fed the elephant and spent a bit of time around him. Then when Botham came back 18 months later we asked him to join a semicircle of people around the same elephant. We dropped a hat in the middle and asked the elephant to pick it up and give it to Beefy. He passed up and down the line and then without hesitation gave the hat to Beefy. It’s very difficult to talk about culling when you have this relationship with elephants.”