A 40-year-old wild elephant stuck in the mud inside Chattogram's Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary was rescued after a nine-hour operation yesterday evening (6 March). Officials from the Forest Department, ...

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.

The elephant was seen splashing itself with mud on its forehead to keep away flies from the wound. “It is in pain and is suffering, and we hope we can help it,” the official said. As part of ...

they call themselves Elephants in Mud. "The first place we lived at was in City Heights," says Andrews. "We went straight to the ghetto. Our next-door neighbor was a meth dealer, but it was still ...

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 ...

The incident happened in the Kuldiha Reserve Forest on Tuesday when a team of forest officials and the doctor went to the forest to rescue and treat an ailing female elephant. The elephant got stuck ...