Elephants and the ivory trade: How a baby elephant keeps cool

Elephants are famously intelligent creatures, they have brilliant memories and have even worked out how to keep themselves cool out in the bush.

Watch one baby elephant use sand as sun cream.

It digs underground for cooler sand and using its trunk, flings the earth over itself. This helps keep its body temperature down and protects its skin from the sun.

Pretty cool, literally...

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