Elephant found 9 miles out to sea off the coast of Ceylon

This elephant was found nine miles out to sea. The navy filmed their 12-hour jumbo rescue operation pic.twitter.com/h7RN611KvH

— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 13, 2017

anyone see this story?

pretty cool. i knew they could cross rivers but no idea anything like that!

never expected elephants to be good at swimming

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Originally Posted by iamdanny

never expected elephants to be good at swimming

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they just put their trunks on and go for it

I always heard elephants were terrific swimmers- but 9 miles offshore? Happy they found this one! What an elephant of a task to get it back to shore I'm guessing!