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Parts and tools making for the kind of natural partnership they aligned themselves with. >> you also write that humans that work with them have a close relationship with these elephants that work with them as close family. now everyone has seen the tear jerking videos. you write when a young elephant is recruited to work, it is excrutiating because it is taken from the family. are you advocating the relationship? is this wholly good for the elephant? >> that's a good question. you have some work elephants

All right. everybody. time for "the mix." a new orchestra in thailand, it's getting a lot of play around the world. >> okay. >> very interesting orchestra. the musicians are elephants. >> you don't say? >> i do say, the thai elephant orchestra. this comes courtesy of npr, by the way. apparently it's just what it sounds. it's a group of former work elephants with nowhere to go. they've been assembled and trained to play percussion instruments, holding mal nets -- mallets in their trunk, sometimes trumpeting. a composer co-founded this orchestra he said that elephants like to listen to music, ap...