Gentle but Powerful Creature

So, this is the elephant who stopped to say hello to me. I felt she looked at me from afar as our friends climbed on, as if deciding that she would stop to say hello to me. She passed a group of people and and stopped 2 feet away from me extending her trunk over the fence and sniffed my arms and hands. I am sure that me holding a frozen orange treat helped with her stopping but others in the group she had just passed were also holding the same orange treat that I had. Besides, she didn't just grab it from my hands. She was sniffing and almost begging me to give it to her. I knew that she could have just easily taken it away from me but she wanted me to give it. She stood there for a while begging and sniffing, until the trainer said, "just give her the orange!" I did not want our meeting to stop and I knew it would as soon as I gave the orange. But I did give it and off she went leaving me with a memorable impression. Who knows, she might have picked me out of the crowd because she knew I could not resist giving her the treat...? Can elephants be that clever? At any rate, when you get close to such a magnificent and powerful creature who seems so gentle you just have to admire it and revere its' creator.