Melbourne Zoo's newest Asian elephant February 10, 2010.

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Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, in the background, in Amboseli National Park, southern Kenya, on December 17, 2012.

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A one-and-a-half-month-old baby elephant with its mother at Chitwan National Park in Chitwan, south of Kathmandu, on December 30, 2014.

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Chitwan National Park at Sauraha in Chitwan, south of Kathmandu, on December 28, 2012.

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An Asian elephant swims in a 65-meter-long pool at Fuji Safari Park in Susono, at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Japan, on July 13, 2015.

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Songkran water festival in Thailand's Ayutthaya province, north of Bangkok, on April 10, 2015.

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A five-month-old-orphaned elephant named Tembo plays with his keeper, Thomas Chalice, who has nurtured the elephant at Tony Fitzjohn's Mkomazi rhino sanctuary in Mkomazi, Tanzania, on June 19, 2012.

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An aerial picture taken on April 5, 2013, shows the main herd of elephants in Zakouma National Park, 800 kilometers east of N'Djamena in Chad.

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A mahout decorates his elephant using chalk while preparing for the Elephant Festival at Sauraha in Chitwan, Nepal, on December 26, 2014.

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Circus Knie bathes in Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland, on October 4, 2010.

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Baby elephant Chima (which means "surprise") runs through the bush at the Botlierskop game farm near Mossel Bay, about 400 kilometers east of Cape Town, South Africa, on November 30, 2009.

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Men ride white elephants at a camp near Uppatasanti Pagoda in Burma's capital city of Naypyidaw on March 1, 2012.

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Nandong, a 25-year-old elephant mother, watches closely as her 2-week-old baby explores at the Singapore Zoo's Night Safari on December 10, 2010.

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Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe on October 14, 2014.

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An elephant is transported in a truck from Taungoo towards Bago, Burma, on March 20, 2012.

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An Asian elephant dries off with sand in his enclosure at the zoo in Karlsruhe, Germany, on July 7, 2011.

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Two elephants reach out to each other at the Sonepur Cattle Fair in the Saran district in the eastern Indian state of Bihar on November 28, 2012.

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Kedar, a baby African elephant born on October 18, 2005, struggles to regain his footing while keeping close to his mother, Kubwa, a 29-year-old African elephant, at the Indianapolis Zoo on November 4, 2005.

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An elephant destroys a minibus during Sri Lanka's sixth annual elephant polo tournament in Galle on February 15, 2007.

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Visitors watch bathing elephants in an indoor pool at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, on September 16, 2008.

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A seven-and-a-half-month-old orphaned elephant calf named Moses cuddles with his adoptive "mother" and foundation owner, Jenny Webb, at sunrise at their home in Lilongwe, Malawi, on October 9, 2012. Moses was found alone and close to death in the Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve.

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A male elephant charges towards unseen Indian villagers after they threw stones in an attempt to scare away the herd of wild elephants that strayed close to the village of Rakamjote, close to the India-Nepal border, on May 26, 2015.

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A sedated elephant is secured on the back of a truck by Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) wardens during a relocation exercise, aimed at relocating 10 elephants that were encroaching on community land, on the margins of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya on June 19, 2013.

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Two-week-old African elephant "Paulchen" Serengeti-Park in Hodenhagen near Hamburg, Germany, on April 7, 2006.

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Tsavo East National Park, 280 km (173 mi) east of Kenya's capital of Nairobi on February 10, 2011

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 A three-day-old African elephant stands beside an elder elephant at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany, on May 23, 2007.

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