...nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
Posted by John Roberts at Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:03:00 GMT and is filed under Golden Triangle Elephants 
Actually, now you come to mention it, how strangely anatomically aware Flanders and Swann were in their lyricisation of the courting ritual of hippopotami - when you can't sweat and, in the case of hippos at least, don't have large ears to flap there really is nothing quite like mud, glorious mud.
Luckily for our heated beasts, though too young to be amorous, mud is something of which we have a plentiful supply and typically it is Lynchee and new found friend Manau that take full advantage...
....and after all that fun and self indulgence, what better way to relax than Manau's choice, just to prove that when you're young, carefree and in the company of friends one or two things do compare to mud in the satisfaction stakes!
Luckily for our heated beasts, though too young to be amorous, mud is something of which we have a plentiful supply and typically it is Lynchee and new found friend Manau that take full advantage...
....and after all that fun and self indulgence, what better way to relax than Manau's choice, just to prove that when you're young, carefree and in the company of friends one or two things do compare to mud in the satisfaction stakes!
Wild Elephants Cooling the blood in Kaeng Krachan National Park - Thailand.
http://www.earth-touch.com/result.php?i=Asian-elephant-enjoys-a-dust-bath
We spent many hours today in Pa La-U, Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand, looking for elephant tracks and speaking to locals in an attempt to find a site where we could film Asian elephants (Elephas maximus).
Eventually, after many false starts, we found a place with fresh tracks coming out of the forest down to a reservoir, and received reports that elephants were regularly drinking at the spot before dark. We chose a film location in a bamboo thicket, which provided both cover and refuge.
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