 His plays included "Blue Beard", at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and the pantomime "Harlequin and Padmanaba, or the Golden Fish", at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.Chunee was trained to take a sixpence from visitors to the menagerie to hold with his trunk before returning it.An entry in Lord Byron's journal records a visit to Exeter Exchange on 14 November 1813, when "The elephant took and gave me my money again — took off my hat — opened a door — trunked a whip — and behaved so well, that I wish he was my butler."