Photos of the Day: A Cute Penguin and Young Buddhist Nuns

Bongthong, Thailand

A dead wild elephant lies near a pineapple plantation in Chonburi province. Police are looking for a pineapple farm worker suspected of setting up an electric fence that has killed two wild elephants in the past month
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Florence, Italy

The Florence Experiment, a research project by German artist Carsten Höller and Italian plant neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso, is displayed at the Palazzo Strozzi. Visitors can slide down the structure while their emotional reactions are recorded and compared to those of plants
Photograph: Maurizio Degl Innocenti/EPA