# Desert elephant (Loxodonta africana) spraying sand

- By: Charles J. Sharp
- Date: 2018-03-03
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desert_elephant_(Loxodonta_africana)_spraying_sand.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/5/50/Desert_elephant_%28Loxodonta_africana%29_spraying_sand.jpg/1920px-Desert_elephant_%28Loxodonta_africana%29_spraying_sand.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Desert elephant (Loxodonta africana) spraying sand on herself while guarding her sleeping baby. She has covered the baby with a branch. Damaraland, Namibia