Until recently, visitors flocked to see the swimming elephants of Havelock Island (aka Swaraj Dweep) in the Bay of Bengal. The island is closest to Myanmar, but belongs to which country?

Elephants naturally like water, but swimming? Not so much. But in the 1970s, ten elephants were taught to swim so they could carry logs between the islands of India's Andaman archipelago. Logging was banned in 2004, but a single elephant named Rajan stayed on until his death in 2016 at the ripe old elephant age of 66.

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