Things That Bang

Coming from a beauty who is unable to hold her liquor it comes as a great surprise to hear that Paris Hilton wants the residents of a little hamlet in India lock up their moonshine and not let the sneaky elephants get drunk:

Hilton was apparently horrified to discover some elephants were electrocuted after drinking rice beer brewed by locals, going on a rampage and uprooting an electricity pylon in the northeast state of Meghalaya. Hilton is urging locals to lock up their booze.

“There would have been more causalities if the villagers hadn’t chased them away. And four elephants died in a similar way three years ago. It is just so sad,” Hilton was reported as saying. “The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them.”

I've heard of monkeys' getting drunk or stoned but elephants? They would require gallons and gallons of rice beer. Any source to verify the drunken behavior?