Why you shouldn’t keep elephants

Hard to own, harder to shoot. Zooming in on the life of Jumbo, John Sutherland shows us the plight of captive animals — and of humans

From magazine issue: 08 February 2014

Jumbo was used to promote a wide variety of household products including flat irons, soap and cotton thread [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

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