Somewhere in the Paul Harvey archives[0] there should be the episode where he closed with the account of an elephant that had been in the US for a number of years, but eventually had become despondent and it was the regular trainers who could tell the difference.
One day there was a visitor from India who spoke to the elephant in their native language and that was what the elephant had been longing for.
My understanding (from a young Indian acquaintance) is that it's routine for an old village elephant to remember a person who had moved away from the village decades earlier.
One day there was a visitor from India who spoke to the elephant in their native language and that was what the elephant had been longing for.
[0] "The Rest of the Story" https://trotsarchive.com/