Emily is a drum-playing elephant at the Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford! I'm officially jealous of Jon Rossi, musician, drummer, actor, and host of The Rossifari Podcast, who has been lucky ...

NEW BEDFORD — Buttonwood Park Zoo's Emily the Elephant may be 58 years old, but she still has impeccable drumming skills. Emily's drumming time, sometimes with her trunk wrapped around a ...

“I would lean it up against a tree while watching the elephant’s graze. Emily would pick it up and scratch her back with it,” says Rapoza. “It was not ever a thing that instilled fear in ...