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Bathing Elephant, Guruvayur, India, 1990

"Drenching itself with its built-in hose, an Asian elephant takes an afternoon shower. Asian elephants are about 2 feet (61 centimeters) shorter than African elephants."

—Text from the National Geographic book Mammals, 1998

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Ibn Battuta," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by James L. Stanfield