family digging salts, Loxodonta africana

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Elephants are important in opening up salt licks to augment the minerals lacking in their diet and enable many other animals to get at deep mineral salt deposits

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Size: 5475px × 3545px
Location: Hwange Safari Lodge Estate Zimbabwe
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves; Agfa Awards Winner / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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