Watch: How a herd of wild elephants beats the heat!

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With the unprecedented heat wave sweeping across most states, a video posted by Indian Forest Service officer Parveen Kaswan shows a herd of wild elephants covered in mud and flapping their ears to cool their bodies at a pond in the forest. The young calves are seen jostling about and rolling around in the muddy water.</p>
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Some fun. This is how they are killing the heat !! <a href="https://t.co/rcChYfWChy">pic.twitter.com/rcChYfWChy</a></p>
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) <a href="https://twitter.com/ParveenKaswan/status/1521108317703049217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Explaining this behaviour, Kaswan wrote: “This is called wallowing. Elephants love to do that. It keeps them cool. Elephants don’t have sweat glands but have a high volume to surface area ratio and hence heat is generated. So heat dissipation in this manner or by flapping their ears is very important.”</p>
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The video has been viewed over 45,000 times so far.</p>