And they have discovered that, to a great extent, the fluctuation depends on whether the elephant has eaten just before the weighing.

Well, a full-grown elephant eats about four hundred pounds of vegetation a day.

The inspector asks: "Now what does this elephant eat, and how much?"

While waiting, he smoked and the elephant ate.

(Of course, a few elephants are not interested in painting at all and may eat the brush.)

"The elephants eat the crops, and there is direct conflict," he said.

Told that a full-grown elephant could eat 150 pounds of food in one sitting, the boy says: "Wow!

Because the elephants eat so much and require a staff of four to help keep them, the animals must work, Mr. Johnson said.

The elephants were ripping the bark off the trees, and eating it.

Next comes the cash crop, generally cotton, which elephants eat grudgingly.