PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) â A baby elephant at the Oregon Zoo had more
tricks than treats to show when handlers gave it a small pumpkin to play
with during an annual fall event where giant elephants smash half-ton
pumpkins.
Weighing just 775 pounds (351.5 kilograms), eight-month-old Asian elephant
Tula-Tu is about the heft of one of the giant pumpkins so is too small
to smash them. Instead, zoo handlers gave her a small pumpkin to
practice with. The little elephant dribbled the gourd around like a
soccer ball, a video from the zoo shows.