Houston has been breaking records this summer, having clocked up the hottest June and July on record; moving into a sweltering August, the local zoo’s Asian elephants seem to know just what to do: have a pool party to cool off. | CBS Sunday Morning

A remarkable view of elephants in the wild! 🐘 The Houston Zoo is protecting wild elephants in Asia. In 2020, we provided support for Malaysian elephant conservation staff in Borneo to fit three wild elephants with satellite tracking collars and collect many hours of direct observations of elephant behavior to inform future elephant protection plans. The Zoo provided a drone – check out this recent footage – for our Malaysian conservation partners, Hutan, to use to monitor elephant activity from