Answer: Open the door, put the elephant in, close the door.
Joking aside, you may need a slightly larger-than-normal fridge
if you're looking to store an Indian elephant. India's sacred
temple elephants in the Tamil Nadu region in the south of India
are more than 1000 pounds (about 500 kg) overweight, due to lack
of exercise and improper diet, the Telegraph reported. "The
female temple elephant -- 15 year-old Parvathi -- is overweight
by 500kg (80 stone) and efforts are on to reduce it," Pon
Jayaraman, executive officer of the Madurai Meenakshi Amman
temple told the BBC Tamil service. The endangered species are
often kept chained to the gates of Hindu temples, stunting any
opportunity for exercise, and are fed a steady diet of rice and
sweets by pilgrims who believe feeding them will bring blessings
to them and their family and ward off evil, the Telegraph said.
An elephant's natural diet is bamboo, grass, and fruits. Their
captive diets are also very much lacking in variety, the BBC
said; in the wild elephan