Credit: TONY CAMACHO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Group of bull African elephants (Loxodonta africana) bathing at the Chudop waterhole in the eastern region of Etosha National Park in Namibia, Southern Africa. Young males typically leave their family herd after puberty, and form groups of other males.

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