Today’s Fun Friday post is actually a bit of trivia related to teak furniture.

Did you know that even today, elephants are used to haul teak? Moving teak has always been a tough proposition because of its weight and density. The lumber is so dense that it will not float down the rivers. Instead elephants drag the teak logs through the rain forests to the coast where they are then transported to teak mills. The elephants have even been trained to stack the logs in symmetrical piles, and when a bell sounds at the end of the day, the elephants stop working without any human intervention.