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A shady spot to wash your elephant

This hot, summer week finds animals around the globe working to beat the heat with help from their human counterparts (except for a crafty bulldog who decided to take matters into his own paws). Check out more images of animals cooling off amid high temperatures here.
A mahout washes a domesticated elephant used for tourist safari inside the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary, about 34 miles east of Gauhati, India, on Thursday, July 21, 2011. Most parts of the sanctuary, which is a habitat of the rare one-horned rhinoceros, are submerged due to monsoon floods according to wildlife department officials.
A mahout washes a domesticated elephant used for tourist safari inside the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary, about 34 miles east of Gauhati, India, on Thursday, July 21, 2011. Most parts of the sanctuary, which is a habitat of the rare one-horned rhinoceros, are submerged due to monsoon floods according to wildlife department officials.Anupam Nath / AP
By Carissa Ray

This hot, summer week finds animals around the globe working to beat the heat with help from their human counterparts (except for a crafty bulldog who decided to take matters into his own paws). Check out more images of animals cooling off amid high temperatures here.