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Picture This Taking the Plunge

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With temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Tuesday, Trinh the elephant knew just the place to go to escape the hot summer day. The Leipzig Zoo's new elephant enclosure, more temple than cage, even includes its own 135-square-meter swimming pool holding 370,000 liters of water, for the park's hard-working pachyderms to escape the crowds and the heat. The zoo claims that the new elephant enclosure, which it has named Ganesha Mandir, is the most modern in the world.

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