The worst job in the world...

... but it's a noble one.

There are many things one can do to earn a living. Some are absolutely horrible (and funny). The people in these videos though, are heroes, because they are doing what they are doing for conservation (taken from a post on Darren Naish's blog, the entertaining and extremely interesting Tetrapod Zoology).

Apparently when you want to collect semen from a bull elephant for conservation, you need to stimulate the prostate gland, for efficacy and safety reasons. Here's how.



Not only is it messy, it's dangerous too, and not just because an aroused elephant is a big and feisty creature. Check this video out.



Anyway, I applaud the efforts of all these people who try to get elephants to breed. In the long run, this means more elephants, which, like more whisky, is a good thing.