 Back when Carol met Tara, she was in her 20s, studying for a job in animal training. Tara was just a baby. She was born in Burma and probably captured in the wild before she was smuggled into Thailand. Into Southern California, where there was a list of people who wanted baby elephants and it was legal to just have an elephant. It was the 70s. There weren't as many rules back then about how to own and treat animals.