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Picture of an elephant using its trunk to spray itself with dust
July 13, 2021

Dusting Off

In Chobe National Park, Botswana, an elephant gives himself a dust bath. The dust will keep him cool as well as keep parasites and insects at bay.
Photograph by Chris Johns, Nat Geo Image Collection

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