young elephant flaring its ears nearby baboon walks across beach toward the chobe river botswana africa

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Young elephant flaring its ears at a nearby baboon as it walks across a beach toward the Chobe River in Botswana, Africa. Royalty Free Stock Photo

Young elephant flaring its ears at a nearby baboon as it walks across a beach toward the Chobe River in Botswana, Africa.

Pictured is a young elephant flaring its ears at a nearby chacma baboon as it walks across a beach near the Chobe River in Chobe National Park in Botswana, Africa. They were photographed from a boat based at the Chobe Game Lodge. The elephant is headed to the nearby river to drink. Elephants drink around eleven gallons of water a day, and the herd visits this beach often, leaving it covered with dung. The baboons are attracted to the elephant dung which they sift for tasty morsels of fruit and seeds that have passed undigested through the elephant's digestive tract. Elephants are herbivorous and will eat as much as 660 pounds of leaves, twigs, fruit, bark, grass and roots a day. The binomial name is Loxodonta africana. The binomial name of the chacma baboon is Papio ursinus.