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"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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