Have You Seen This? Even elephants can use a good belly scratch

An elephant approaches a safari vehicle at Damaraland Wilderness Camp in Damaraland, Namibia, in South Africa, in August. Watch to see what else it does.

An elephant approaches a safari vehicle at Damaraland Wilderness Camp in Damaraland, Namibia, in South Africa, in August. Watch to see what else it does. (ViralHog via YouTube)


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NAMIBIA — We humans have it so easy. If my back is itchy, I scratch it. If my neck is sore, I seek relief using some weird massage tool my wife got from Sharper Image. Regardless of whether these actions actually solve the problem, at least I feel like I can do something to try to help myself.

Imagine, however, you're a giraffe and you have a sore neck. Probably happens all the time, considering their necks can be up to 6 feet long and weigh 600 pounds. But there are no Sharper Image massage tools that can help in a situation like that.

If you were an elephant with an itchy back, you couldn't reach up there and scratch it. You'd just wander around desperately looking for a tree you could maybe rub against Baloo-style. Which is probably what the elephant was doing in this video.

It had an itchy tummy and couldn't believe its luck when it saw the hood of this vehicle.

I just feel sorry for the elephant in this video. It had finally found a tool to scratch its agonizing itch, and then the thing just up and drives away.

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Grant Olsen joined the KSL.com contributor team in 2012. He covers outdoor adventures, travel, product reviews and other interesting things.
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