Stock Photo - 1962 - Pedicure Day By The Elephants Of The Berlin Zoo 'Show your feet'.. is the command in regular intervals for the pachyderms of the zoological gardens all over the World and as well for the elephants of the Berlin Zoo. The impression of strength and invulnerability which an elephant usually causes at zoo Visitors very often don't let arise the though that elephants require a through care. But just a regular pedicure series to the good health of these animals, for living in a zoo they can not run off the grown again horn so intensively like on the free hunting - ground and this leads to discomfort of feet. So the animal keeper must continuously cut the foot nails and the horny skin on the soles. What here looks so easy is quite a hard work for the animal keeper, Conez; to 'pedicure' two elephant feet means for him 1 1/2 hours of work. (Credit Image: © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com)