Elephant beats heroin habit with detox

A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox programme on China’s tropical island province of Hainan.

The four-year-old bull elephant, referred to alternately as “Big Brother” or “Xiguang” in state media reports, was captured in 2005 in southwest China by traders who used spiked bananas to control him.

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Tagged as: Bananas, Bull Elephants, China, Detox Programs, Drug Addiction, Drugs, Elephants, Heroin, Illegal Traders

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