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Elephant giving itself dust bath on hillside

An elephant is throwing dust over itself with its trunk on a bare earth slope with trees in the background under a blue sky. It has mud stains on its trunk, and the dust is exploding in a cloud against its wrinkled grey skin. Shot with a Nikon D810 in Chobe National Park in Botswana in April 2016.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2016
Date Uploaded: 09.2017
Photo Location: Botswana
Camera: NIKON D810
Copyright: © Nick Dale