No, you’re not hallucinating. There really are gay elephants.

While they may not be pink, they are engaging in homosexual behavior, according to park rangers in Sri Lanka, who say they frequently observe wild male elephants mounting and bonding with one another.

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The elephant experts say fraternal interactions are a natural part of elephant social behavior, and are most easily seen during the dry season when herds gather en masse around water sources, The Daily Mirror reports.

In Sri Lanka, the small South Asian island nation at the southern tip of India, those destinations include large reservoirs in two national parks, Minneriya and Kaudull, well-known for their large elephant populations.

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Male elephants can be seen ‘holding hands’ by intertwining their trunks, and grooming each other to show affection. They even put their trunks in one another’s mouths. Relationships between elephants of both sexes often last a lifetime.

Across the Palk Strait in the Indian state of Tamil, two male elephants recently displayed these behaviors near the city of Gudalur.