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Jul 27, 2006
"A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence." --Leopold Stokowski
Mozart Soothes Aching Elephant
Suma, a 45-year-old elephant and long-time resident of the Zagreb Zoo, was bereaved and inconsolable after her pachyderm partner of tens of years died of cancer. Until, of course, she heard Mozart. At the sight of five musicians preparing themselves to start a concert, Suma became very nervous and aggressive, peppering the intruders with little stones that she blew out of her trunk. "But as soon as the concert started what we saw was really fascinating. Suma leaned against the fence, closed her eyes and listened without moving," Mladen Anic, head of Zagreb Zoo, said.
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