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For any television police detective who had to face an angry captain who screamed something like, “You couldn’t find an elephant in a bowl of rice,” this could be the case of a lifetime.

Austrian officials posted mug shots of a missing elephant in newspapers on Jan. 18, calling on the nation to help track down the 24-year-old, 5-ton pachyderm.

Customs had been pursuing the cow elephant named Seila since she was sold illegally to a circus in Linz.

When officials arrived at the tent, however, the circus director had already fled with Seila.