The adorable video of a baby elephant taking a mud bath with its mother is melting the hearts of internet users!

In addition to keeping elephants cool and clean, mud baths help alleviate itchy, irritated skin. Elephants live in dusty, dry environments where their skin can easily become parched and uncomfortable.

She walked in front of the elephant when it took one of its tusks and gored her to death, reported the Thai Examiner. She was rushed to a local hospital, where she later died from a head injury.

Dibrugarh: In a three-hour rescue operation, forest officials successfully freed a wild Asian elephant that had fallen into a deep, muddy pit in the S.

The millions of micrometer-wide fractures in elephants’ skin retain mud and water after mud baths, helping the animals stay hydrated between trips to the water hole. Evaporation from the mud and ...

Malappuram, Kerala: A wild elephant that fell into a well in Areekode was successfully rescued after a gruelling 21-hour operation. The rescue team, comprising a 60-member task force from the Forest ...

It is admittedly a tiny amount of water, but it’s water no less. Elephants use water and mud to help cool off — mud also acts as insect repellant and sunscreen. From the jump, 10-year-old ...