Care for a cup of elephant-dung coffee?

Miki Giles from Hong Kong tastes the Black Ivory Coffee at breakfast as Meena, a 6-year-old baby elephant, gets curious at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand. Black Ivory Coffee, started by Canadian coffee expert Blake Dinkin, is made from Thai arabica hand-picked beans. Coffee beans are naturally refined by a Thai elephant. It takes about 15-30 hours for the elephant to digest the beans, and later they are plucked from their dung and washed and roasted. Approximately 10,000 beans are picked to produce 1 kg of roasted coffee. At USD 1,100 per kilogram or USD 500 per pound, the cost per serving of the elephant coffee equals USD 50, making the exotic new brew the world's priciest. It takes 33 kilograms of raw coffee cherries to produce 1 kilo of Black Ivory Coffee.

A mahout rides his elephant after bathing at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

A Thai elephant walks in the jungle in the early morning fog at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

A Thai mahout rides his elephant in the early morning fog at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

A Thai elephant and a mahout ride along the field at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in northern Thailand.

A mahout watches as elephants are fed a coffee bean mixture with fruit and rice at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Black Ivory Coffee founder Blake Dinkin (R) feeds an elephant a coffee bean mixture at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand. It takes 33 kilograms of raw coffee cherries to produce 1 kilo of Black Ivory Coffee.

A coffee bean mixture on the ground after an elephant feeds at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

A Thai elephant walks in the jungle in the early morning fog at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Thai elephants head to the river for an early morning bathe at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

A Thai elephant scoops up a coffee bean mixture with fruit and rice at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort on December 10, 2012 in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Lun, a Thai mahout, stirs up a coffee bean mixture with fruit and rice that will be fed to elephants at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Thai mahout Lun serves a coffee bean mixture to an elephant at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort. Black Ivory Coffee, started by Canadian coffee expert Blake Dinkin, is made from Thai arabica hand picked beans and created from a process where the beans are naturally refined by a Thai elephant.

Niang, a mahout's wife, and her daughter Ari, 6, look for elephant dung at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Thai elephants during an early morning graze at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Mahout's wives Niang (L) and Lynda (R) pick out coffee beans from elephant dung at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Mahout's wives pick out coffee beans from elephant dung at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Niang, a mahout's wife, and her daughter Ari, 6, wash coffee beans after picking them from the dung at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Mahout's wives pick out coffee beans from elephant dung at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

Lun, a mahout, rests in a hammock near his elephants at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

ay Buerger, owner of Thai High Ventures, carries a large bag of freshly picked coffee beans at the Thai High coffee farm 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.

A member of the Lisu hill tribe picks Thai arabica coffee beans at the Thai High coffee farm in Phrao, northern Thailand.

A balance brewer makes Black Ivory coffee at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

A mahout walks his elephant back into the jungle at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.

A Thai elephant walks in the jungle at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand.