A JAPANESE safari park has withdrawn from an agreement to buy three of the young elephants at the centre of a legal dispute over their fate. The Brits Magistrate’s Court heard on Monday that the Fuji Safari Park decided it no longer wants the beasts after discovering they are wild. The park had been under the impression the elephants were born in captivity. This emerged in evidence presented by Jane Marston, legal representative for the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in response to an urgent application by the elephants’ owner Riccardo Ghiazza to overturn an ealrier court order placing the elephants in the NSPCA’s custody.