These elephants were treated to what their zoo described as the “ultimate” spa day — complete with mud masks, pool time and dust bathing — just outside Melbourne, Australia, as the area braced for “extreme heatwave conditions” to hit over the weekend.
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Article by Samantha Laird, University of Washington
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