A photographer spotted Madhuri the elephant’s bizarre behaviour during a trip to India’s Corbett National Park. Jagdeep Rajput, 49, has been taking photographs for 20 years but admitted he had never before seen such a spectacle. He said: “I had heard about this elephant before and looked out for her. “She’s known to be quite aggressive so when I did eventually find her I approached her carefully. “The park has a good population of lizards and Madhuri is known as an expert in catching them – she has a particular fancy for monitor lizards. “She caught the lizard alive and carried it all the time for few days – tossing it up and even dropping it.

“Her behaviour was extraordinary and I’ve never seen or heard about anything so bizarre before.”