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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 12, 2003  

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Where Near Guruvayur, India
When 1990
Photographer James L. Stanfield

"Drenching itself with its built-in hose, an Asian elephant takes an afternoon shower. Asian elephants are about 2 feet (61 centimeters) shorter than African elephants."

—Text from the National Geographic book Mammals, 1998

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Ibn Battuta," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)

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