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Look closely, there is an elephant on that steep hill.

Many people imagine elephants as animals of the plains. But the truth is far more fascinating.

Asian elephants are remarkably sure-footed and can negotiate surprisingly steep hills and rocky slopes.

This photograph captures an elephant making its way across a steep hillside in the Nilgiris.

And now, researchers have documented wild elephants in Arunachal Pradesh at an astonishing 3,266 metres above sea level, the highest elevation ever recorded for Asian elephants.

This remarkable discovery reveals the extraordinary adaptability of these gentle giants and challenges one of the most enduring assumptions about them.

What a fascinating fact to learn on the eve of World Elephant Day 2026, celebrated on August 12!

📸 Chandrasekar Das

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Arunachal Pradesh is a state in northeast India.

It was known as the North-East Frontier Agency until 1972, after which it became a union territory under the name Arunachal Pradesh.

It became a state on 20 February 1987. Itanagar is its capital and largest town.

Featuring switchable front-wheel drive, it started life as a design submitted by Porsche in response to a call to tender by the German army during the 1950s. With it’s trough-like monocoque bodyshell, it could withstand almost any type of terrain – both on land and water.

The designers equipped the type 597 with a modified four-cylinder flat engine from the Porsche 356 in the rear putting out 50 hp with impressive driving dynamics despite its inclination towards off-road capabilities. Weight around 870 kilograms with top speed of up to 100 km/h, the Porsche 597 was extremely agile for a military vehicle. Very low gear in its transmission allowed it to scale inclines of up to 65 percent at 1,000 rpm.

Manufactured ambitiously 71 units (some reports claim 99) but lost to the DKW Munga. Porsche cleverly sold them to private customers as ‘Jagdwagen’ (hunting car) focusing on hunters, foresters and farmers. For this purpose, the nickname ‘Jagdwagen’ (hunting car), which is still used today, was created. Around 50 units still in existence.

All secrets about this long forgotten Four-Wheel drive Porsche revealed in detail:- https://www.secret-classics.com/en/porsche-597-jagdwagen-2/

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