A photo from open sources
Surveillance Camera of the Indian National Park Nagarahol I caught a unique moment in my lens when an elephant smokes as the animal in the video clearly releases smoke from the mouth.
As we know, elephants are very intelligent animals, for example, they bury their dead relatives, and often other animals. Elephants, as you know, even adore vodka, but so that they smoked, this was not yet noticed by them. And suddenly this …
A smoking elephant accidentally fell into the lens of one of the cameras, established in the park by employees of the Society for the Protection of Wild Animals with the purpose of studying the life of tigers. And here on the video we can watch the elephant stand and smoke from his mouth.
However, as it turned out, the animal did not smoke at all, but consumed coal on one of the scorched stripes of the forest with the goal of non-proliferation of fire. Before that, coal eating by animals was recorded only with sides of the Zanzibar red colobus – primates, which, in addition to people, use it purposefully, apparently, in order to combat the harmful effects of phenolic compounds that are found in the leaves of some plants eaten by these monkeys. But so that elephants consumed coal, no one has yet recorded this.
And here you have a unique record, the elephant, it turns out, does not smoke, he treated, and treated consciously, like any intelligent animal …
