Nepal celebrates elephant beauty

It's a beauty pageant on a large scale.

Nepal's elephant beauty pageant, held last Friday, saw three elephants from the country's Chitwan district enter the final round of the competition.

This year Chitwan Kali was awarded the top prize for her decoration, obedience and honesty.

Shri Ram of the Elephant Management Committee told Reuters, '(Chitwan Kali) was very beautiful and... was able to obey the command of mahout (her handler).'

The runner-up prize was awarded to elephant Prakriti Kali.

The final decision was determined by five expert judges looking for an elephant with physical beauty and, of course, great personality.

This is the third year in which the elephant beauty contest has been included in the annual Chitwan Elephant festival in Nepal.