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Police identified the woman as Bertha Walt, a pretty young Zurich office worker. The night before she had carried some bread away from the dinner table, and apparently went to the zoo to feed Chang. There was a keeper's door in the wall at the back of the elephant pit through which she could have entered. To a friend she had said: "I often find animals kinder than people...
...Chang had some elephantine whims. He showered his audience with water and occasionally picked up his empty tub and flung that, too. His keeper and his fans laughed and decided that Chang was an elephant with imagination...
...Chang brusquely snatched a doll from the arms of a little girl. For this he was banished to his pit. Then on a stormy November morning three years ago, zoo keepers saw blood on the floor of the pit. In Chang's straw bed they found a bloodied human hand...
...horrified keepers and police learned the unbelievable truth. Chang had devoured a young woman; he had swallowed her clothes, her hat, and even her large handbag...
...management wanted to kill Chang, but Keeper Rietmann pleaded for mercy. Chang was spared. Until two weeks ago, he gave no more trouble. Then suddenly he became aggressive, even attacking Mandjullah. Again Hans Rietmann defended the animal. Chang, he said, was entering his bullhood and would be upset for a while. The chains that tied Chang during the night were reinforced; keepers were forbidden to enter the pit alone...