An elephant broke into a kitchen in the dead of the night and finished off rice flour dough that had been kept to prepare breakfast at a temple in India.<br /><br />The incident occurred at a temple near Coimbatore in South India on the early hours of March 19.<br /><br />The head cook of Lalithambika Amman temple, who entered the kitchen, was baffled to see the dough missing.<br /><br />The temple offers food for devotees and the cook had kept the dough ready to prepare the next day’s breakfast.<br /><br />Suspecting that someone may have stolen the dough, the cook checked the footage from the CCTV cameras installed at the temple premises. <br /><br />Instead of any human thief, he was shocked to find a huge adult male elephant walking in gently and then finding its way to the kitchen.<br /><br />It managed to discover the dough that had been kept on the kitchen floor in a large vessel and ate it carefully.<br /><br />The CCTV footage shows the elephant lifting dough with its trunk and putting it in its mouth. It eats cautiously without spilling the dough or disturbing the vessel. <br /><br />After finishing the dough it looks for more food, runs its trunk over utensils arranged in shelves and again taking care not to upset them. <br /><br />The terrified temple officials contacted forest officials, requested them to find the tusker and move it deep inside the forest.<br /><br />Nearly 50 elephants live in the Coimbatore region occasionally straying into human habitats looking for food.
