Pictured is a large African bush elephant enjoying fruit on the ground after shaking a female Hyphaene petersiana palm tree in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Africa. The elephant is joined by a chacma baboon in the background who is also after the copius small fruit that fell from the tree after the elephant wrapped his trunk around the dark trunk of the palm tree and leaned in and out with its massive strength. A large termite mound and other vegetation is behind. The photograph was taken from a safari vehicle based at the Atzaro Okavango Camp. The binomial name of the elephant is Loxodonta africana and the baboon is Papio ursinus.
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