KANCHANABURI, THAILAND - Lam Duan, a 65-year-old, blind Thai elephant is enjoying her lunch, listening to Silent Night being played on a piano. For eight years, pachyderms like Lam Duan - old, ...

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A British pianist, living in Thailand, has taken his craft to entirely new heights. Somewhere, deep in the jungle, 57-year-old Paul Barton has dragged his piano into a clearing, on the banks of the ...

British volunteer Paul Barton plays piano for sick, abused, retired and rescued elephants in sanctuary along Thailand-Myanmar border in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, December 9, 2018. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun ...

KANCHANABURI, THAILAND (REUTERS) - Lam Duan, a 65-year-old, blind Thai elephant is enjoying her lunch, listening to Silent Night being played on a piano. For eight years, pachyderms like Lam Duan - ...

For eight years, pachyderms like Lam Duan - old, overworked and sometimes disabled - have been rehabilitated with music at Elephants World, a retirement sanctuary for the animals in the western Thai ...