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Andrew Joseph

German acrobat is throwing down dunks … with elephants

Rene Casselly is a German acrobat and Ninja Warrior star who apparently grew up with elephants. And over the past few weeks, Casselly has taken to practicing basketball trick shots and dunks with his elephants.

Because, why not?

Casselly posted his latest stunt over the weekend where an elephant lifted him into the air, and he finished the stunt off with a dunk (or really a Dwight Howard-esque throw-in). But it counts.

Let’s get this dunk into the NBA dunk contest.

But as Casselly shared, the dunks were a work-in-progress. He spent plenty of time wiping out before he managed to complete the elephant-aided dunks.

Yeah, don’t try that at home. He was fortunate to escape injury when his foot went through the rim.

They also teamed up for some trick shots.

View this post on Instagram

Flexible trickshot ! 🐘🏀.

A post shared by Rene Casselly (@rene_casselly) on

His entire Instagram is worth checking out.

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