stuffed with hundreds of bananas

from the review of elephant company, a biography of Lt. Col. James Howard Williams, known as Elephant Bill:

Calves born to domesticated mothers began school at 5 years of age (Williams referred to them as “my babies”), along with the 12-year-old boys who would grow up with them and become their lifelong uzis. After a short confinement in a pen greased with pig fat to protect the young elephants’ skin, the curriculum was all about bribery. By sundown, class was dismissed and the babies reunited with their mothers, “having been stuffed with hundreds of bananas.”

also did you know this about elephants:

They have six sets of teeth throughout their lives that move into place “not from underneath, but as if moved forward along on a slow conveyor belt,” and once they’ve used up their sixth set, they starve to death.