Amazing Elephants

Photo Credit: Joel Sartore

Cameras have revealed how elephants are able to get a drink of fresh water when faced with a stagnant waterhole.

A BBC team discovered that the tusked giants use their trunks to delicately siphon off clean water that has settled at the top of a dirty pool.

The Natural History Unit says this is the first time this behavior has been seen.

The footage forms part of Nature's Great Events: The Great Flood, which follows the annual flooding of Botswana's Okavango Delta.