Photos: $50 coffee from beans passed by elephants
158273979_PB001ELEPHANTCOFFEE.JPG
Credit: Getty Images
PHRAO, THAILAND - DECEMBER 8: A member of the Lisu hill tribe picks Thai arabica coffee beans at the Thai High coffee farm on December 8, 2012 in Phrao, northern Thailand. The organic fair trade coffee farm was chosen to help produce the Black Ivory Coffee. The new brand of coffee is produced by harvesting the beans from the dung of a Thai elephant. It takes 15-30 hours for the elephant to digest the beans, then they are plucked later from their dung and washed and roasted. At $1,100 per kilogram or $500 per pound, the cost per cup equals $50, this makes the exotic new brew the world's priciest. It takes 33 kilograms of raw coffee cherries to produce 1 kilo of Black Ivory coffee. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Other Slide Shows
Photos: Scottsdale nightlife, May Vol. 3
Phoenix police go to kindergarten graduation of fallen officer's daughter
Okla. tornado damage: Thousands of homes, $1.5-$2B
For Philadelphia bicyclist, a cat is his co-pilot
Medical examiner: 24 dead in Oklahoma twister
Arias asks jury for life term; deliberations begin
