While at ZN we took a side trip to the Elephant Experience. They have there three domesticated elephants that can’t be returned to the wild and with which we were able to interact.
In the feeding process we were able to feel the hide, drop food into their trunks, put food into their mouths and feel the tongue and stroke their tusks.
That’s as close an encounter as I expect I’ll ever have with elephants.
Traveling Jim 