young elephants and their mother waking across beach near the chobe river botswana africa

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Young elephants and their mother waking across a beach near the Chobe River in Botswana, Africa. Royalty Free Stock Photo

Young elephants and their mother waking across a beach near the Chobe River in Botswana, Africa.

Pictured are two young elephants and their mother waking across a beach near the Chobe River in Chobe National Park in Botswana, Africa. A third elephant is bringing up the rear. They were photographed from a boat based at the Chobe Game Lodge. They are headed to the nearby river to drink. They drink around eleven gallons of water a day, and the herd visits this beach often. 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.