Samorn the elephant was a much loved attraction at the Adelaide Zoo. According to the Sunday Mail from June 2nd 2013;
"Samorn's own story, with still so much feeling evoked from elephant sympathisers, everyone should go directly to Samorn's (auto)biography at the Adelaide Zoo Shop, telling her true story from her 1950 birth in Siam. She was a specially chosen Asian elephant, a royal gift to Adelaide, in 1956. Right from the start she was bright, very observant, curious, and rarely forgot.

She formed many staff friends and became very attached to Hero Nuus, her senior keeper, who effectively became her "mahout". Samorn made a Zoo society member friend who tape recorded her life story from start to finish, warts and all, in Sam's "own words". She was a jealous, working, clever and trustworthy elephant both up front and behind the scenes, and would not share her beloved jobs.

Rumor has it that Samorn drank a bottle of scotch whisky every day to keep her warm in Winter 

Her growing tonnage obliged her to rock to and fro to assist her heartbeat. It wasn't boredom it kept her healthy. Samorn's Adelaide career lasted through several eras and much change. Her scribe gifted the final edition copyright of Elephant in Our Zoo to the RZS, which is a charity, in July 2012 to last forever.

Samorn, Hero and the Adelaide Zoo are forever part of Adelaide and SA history"