Young Elephants And Their Mother Waking Across A Beach Near The Chobe River In Botswana, Africa. Stock Image

Pictured are two young elephants and their mother waking across a beach near the Chobe River in Chobe National Park in Botswana, Africa. It was photographed from a boat based at the Chobe Game Lodge. They are headed to the nearby river to drink. They drink around eleven gallons of water a day the herd visits this beach often. Elephants are herbivorous and will eat as much as 660 pounds of leaves, twigs, fruit, bark, grass and roots a day. The binomial name is Loxodonta africana.