Three years ago, for the only time in my life, I saw an elephant that wasn’t in captivity—in Cambodia, near the Angkor Wat. I was about to take my phone out of my bag so I could take a photo. But that elephant was surprisingly quick, and I didn’t want to startle it: Elephants don’t attack humans deliberately, but they have poor eyesight and therefore stomp people and other creatures because they mistaken us for predators or simply don’t see us.
Since then, I haven’t been to a zoo and may never go to one again. I prefer to see animals free, if at a safe distance:
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