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Elephants at the water point in Porini Amboseli Camp. [Courtesy]

The African elephant does not walk alone. Standing metres from the water point, huge, with giant columnar legs, gigantic head with flat ears and temporal glands, she flaps them allowing her body to cool.

See, the weather is demanding and so is their water demand, which can be over 200 litres a day: Each trunk capacity quenching is between four and eight litres.

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