Anup Shah / African elephants (Loxodonta africana) wallowing in a waterhole. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Taken with remote wide angle camera.

Anup Shah / African elephants (Loxodonta africana) dust bathing. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Taken with remote wide angle camera.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Domestic Asian elephants (Elephas maximas) used for riding safaris with their keepers, Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal.

Ann & Steve Toon / Elephant trunk (Loxodonta africana), Etosha national park, Namibia, May

Cyril Ruoso / Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) pair playing, Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia

Jabruson,Jabruson / African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) mother playing with her calf. Dzanga Bai, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic.

Axel Gomille / Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus), temple elephant gives blessings to pilgrims at the ruins and temple complex of Hampi, Karnataka, India

Denis-Huot / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) baby elephant its mother's trunk Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

Ben Osborne / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) splashes mud with his foot. Savuti, Northern Botswana. Taken on location for BBC Planet Earth series, 2005

Nick Garbutt / Adult bull African Elephant (Loxononta africana) trunk reaching up to feed on foliage on the banks of the Luangwa River, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia, October

Nick Garbutt / Adult bull African Elephant (Loxononta africana) reaching up to feed on foliage on the banks of the Luangwa River, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia, October

Michael W. Richards / Domesticated Indian elephant (Elephas maximus) low angle view of having howdah fitted to take people into Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India