Anything in the dense jungles of South East Asia is incredibly hard to find, but a White Elephant was found in Myanmar in 2002 after a month of searching. Just a few centuries ago, the best white elephants were given to the king (of Thailand), but the lower grade ones were given as gifts, and since the elephants were sacred, they could not be put to work, causing a great financial burden on the recipient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant
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Nice. Interesting that there are 'low-grade' white elephants. I think I could use a trip to Thailand to see a white elephant
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