i don't have a "bucket list", but if I had one that elephant would have found it's way on there, I just could never tell from the highway what it was made of and why it was always so darn shiny. Now I know, at least those two things, the rest is still a mystery, but I can live without knowing the rest.
Here I think the elephants are all but done on traveling with the circuses, I thing at the end of this year the only one that still hauls them around is stopping that practice. To much expense and to much flack from the PETA people.