An elephant reaches out its long trunk to gently grab the food from a toddler who was being held up by his father. Photo: BNPSAccording to animal rights activists it is unnatural for an elephant to balance like this and they only do so because of "cruel training methods."
Well I don't see anyone in the photograph coercing the elephant to balance on the edge of his enclosure, it looks very much to me as though he's doing it of his own free will.
So who taught the this elephant to balance on it's tiptoes like this? Probably no one.
The animal spotted a curious toddler holding a snack and clambered up onto a narrow wall on the edge of its enclosure to snatch it.
Balancing on its tiptoes the elephant teetered precariously on the four inch wide ledge. It then reached out its long trunk out to gently grab the food.
The moment was captured by amateur photographer Tobias Haase, during a visit to Hamburg Zoo in Germany.
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