Anup Shah / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) spraying mud, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, February

Andy Rouse / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) bull spraying mud at camera, Savute, Botswana (non-ex)

Anup Shah / African elephants (Loxodonta africana) having a mud bath, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, March

Anup Shah / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) spraying mud, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, February

Andy Rouse / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) two bulls at mud wallow, Savute, Botswana (non-ex)

Andy Rouse / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) having a mudbath, Marakele NP, South Africa

Pete Oxford / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) wallowing in mud at a waterhole, Makalolo Plains, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa

Andrew Parkinson / Baby African elephant after mudbath {Loxodonta africana} Chobe NP, Botswana