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  • Although the skin of an elephants is nearly an inch thick, they use mud and dust to protect against skin parasites and to cool off.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Although these youngsters are small for elephants you could feel the power as the spared.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Done with the mud bath, this baby elephant is leaving the mud hole with its mother.  You can tell it is quite young by the short trunk.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • The elephant on the right is getting worked up.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Just before sunset this family came to get a drink.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Adult elephants can consume over three hundred pounds of food a day.  They have an inefficient digestive system so over 60% of the mass comes out as dung.  Each elephant can produce a few hundred pounds of dung per day.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Baby elephants are protected from predation by spending time surrounded by adult females of the herd.  However, who is going to protect the adults from humans?  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • These two are all locked up for a pushing match.  Can you tell that the one on the right has his testosterone fully involved?  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Ears extended can be a threat and/or used as a heat exchange devise to cool the animal.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • The stomping is part of the ritual.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • From the time they are young, male elephants use play fighting to determine their place in the social structure and develop the skills they will need as adults.  As they get older the fighting gets more serious as you can see in the next series of photos.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Just like human children, baby elephants can’t pass up a mud hole.  I couldn’t see anywhere on its body that was mud free.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Mud, glorious mud.  Makes for happy elephants.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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