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Swimming Elephants
- Elephants were used to transport logs on the Andaman Islands.
- They swam long distances between islands, sometimes up to 30 kilometers.
Elephant Swimming Abilities
- Geographers assumed elephants couldn't swim before the 1970s.
- This led to incorrect theories about land bridges between islands where elephant bones were found.
Loch Ness Elephant
- The Loch Ness Monster was once theorized to be a swimming elephant.
- The famous "surgeon's photo" was thought to show an elephant's trunk.