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June 20, 2003

Baby Elephant, Africa, 1996

Photograph by Chris Johns

A baby elephant sniffs the air. Although poaching has decreased in the Zambezi River basin, elephants still suffer from a loss of habitat caused by the irregular and smaller flow of the river here.

—Text adapted from "Down the Zambezi," October 1997, National Geographic magazine

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Zambezi," October 1997, National Geographic magazine)