An elephant once addicted to heroin-laced bananas has kicked the habit - but in the process become unfit for the wild. The four-year-old bull elephant, referred to alternately as "Big Brother" or "Xiguang", went through a lengthy rehab course.
But officials today admitted there was no going back to his original habitat, despite rescue efforts.
Traders had captured him in south-west China in 2005 and used spiked bananas to control him, before he was saved.
A Yunnan Wild Life Park manager today said: "Three years of domestic life and a huge amount of rehabilitation medicine have changed the physical situations, odours and habits of Xiguang."
The beast will now divide his time between two wild life parks in the south-western province of Yunnan.
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