The naval officers couldn’t believe their eyes at first. They had seen many creatures in the water before. Whales? Yes. Sharks? Sure. But this was something so unexpected they hardly believed their eyes. It was an elephant! An elephant? That was something they wouldn’t even have guessed in a thousand years.
The finding was unusual as elephants are definitely not associated with marine life. Chaminda Walakuluge explained that the young elephant was probably swept into the ocean while attempting to traverse the Kokkilai lagoon – a vast water body that separates two jungle regions.