This article includes a video about the Scottish Elephant Polo Team who are hoping to win the world cup.

“A team from Scotland hopes to reclaim glory in the Elephant Polo World Cup.”

- BBC NEWS

“African elephants, it turns out, have this ability. Lucy A. Bates and Richard W. Byrne of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and colleagues have demonstrated that using odor and visual cues elephants are able to classify subgroups within a predator species. The species in question? Homo sapiens.” - New York Times

“Scotland has failed to win its fourth-in-a-row World Cup - at elephant polo.” - The Scotsman

“Advocates For Animals has urged Chivas Regal Whisky and the Duke of Argyll, who has captained victorious Scotland teams, to end their links to the sport.” - BBC NEWS

“Paya, the dexterous elephant-turned-artist responsible, is claimed to have painted - among other things - her self-portrait after being trained to hold a brush in her trunk.” - Scotland on Sunday

“Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, is in fact an elephant, according to a Scottish palaeontologist who claims to have solved the riddle surrounding the unexplained sightings of a monster in a lake near Glasgow in Scotland.” - Mail & Guardian Online

“Scotland’s national elephant polo team and reigning world champions have won an international competition for the second year running.” - BBC News

“Scotland could be in with a chance of winning a major trophy if they beat Germany - in the semi finals of an elephant polo tournament.” - Scotsman.com

“Scotland are celebrating sporting glory after being crowned world champions of elephant polo.” - BBC NEWS

“Scotland’s bagpipe makers, deprived of the use of increasingly rare elephant ivory, are turning to a much older resource. They are using the tusks of 20,000-year-old woolly mammoths, whose remains are regularly found deep-frozen in the permafrost of Siberia.” - Times Online

“The sound of classical music is being used to soothe Scotland’s only herd of elephants.” - BBC News