Elephant 'smoking' footage baffles experts

Animal in India may have been trying to ingest wood charcoal and blowing away the ashFootage of an Asian elephant "smoking" in a south Indian forest has baffled wildlife experts, who say the behaviour has never before been observed.Vinay Kumar, a scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) India program, captured the puffing pachyderm while visiting camera traps in the Nagarahole national park in Karnataka state. Continue reading...