A heartwarming new video sees workers at the Punnathur Kotta Elephant Sanctuary in Kerala, India, scrubbing the animals' tusks, toes and thick skin clean.

Elephant loses tusk after it falls from earthmover. TNN / Updated: Mar 21, 2018, 09:09 IST. ... Even though Rajeswari is a female elephant, it had small tusks grown on either side of its mouth.

“The elephant’s body was found dead below a high tension line hanging at a height of 8.5- 9 feet belonging to Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco),” he said.