If given a banana that’s too brown, though, she tosses it aside, he added. When Pang Pha peels a banana, she doesn’t crack the stem and peel down the sides one by one.

Pang Pha is an elephant of discriminating taste. Offer her a yellow or green banana and she will hoover it up whole, peel and all. Proffer a brown banana, and she is likely to turn her long nose ...