Crashing the party

We heard a smash and the tinkling of spraying glass as the window shattered. The wild Asiatic elephants lumbering through the restaurant were using their trunks like wrecking balls, lashing tables and chairs. Furniture tumbled into the burbling river below.

"They're after the fruit!" an onlooker howled from an observation bridge in the rainforest of Wild Elephant Valley, in Yunnan's Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve.

These creatures weren't angry - just very hungry and very, very big.