Why Elephants love a dust bath

Elephants love a dust bath.

I’m sorry, but please don’t scroll past the photograph above without giving that baby Elephant some love.

A dust bath is a great way of ridding themselves of flies and parasites and acts as a great sunscreen.

I wouldn’t want to see an Elephant with a bad case of sunburn, would you?

It probably helps keep them cool, as well.

It’s good that the youngsters are learning to do it.

It’ll be a while before the baby masters the art of sucking up vast quantities of dust and blowing it in a huge plume over itself.

There must be a technique to it. Personally it reminds me of when my vacuum cleaner went wrong.

Yes, I know that baby is fantastic, isn’t it?

If only there wasn’t dust completely covering my cameras now.

It was worth it.