Pictured is a chacma baboon drink water in the edge of the Chobe River in Chobe National Park in Botswana, Africa. In the background is a beach covered with elephant dung. The elephants frequently come to this spot to drink from the river and the baboons are attracted to the dung which contains tasty morsels of fruit and seeds that have passed undigested through the digestive tract of the elephant. The chacma baboon usually lives in social groups, called troops, which are composed of multiple adult males, adult females, and their offspring. The binomial name is Papio ursinus. The baboon was photographed from the Chobe River on a safari boat from the historic Chobe Game Lodge.
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