Our Long Lost Relative

It seems that elephants and people have more in common than previously thought. Not only do we both cry at the death of a loved one, we both have a hard time getting ourselves motivated to get onto the treadmill to exercise. Maggie, the only elephant in the entire expanse of the state of Alaska, has a brand new $100,000 treadmill on which to walk, and yet she seems to have no real desire to use it. Pat Lampi, the zoo's director, predicts that it may take a year or more to get her to walk on the machine. So much for a New Year's resolution.