A bull elephant fully emerging from the Shire River in Malawi’s Liwonde National Park surprises a boat ferrying Szakács Cukrász, who snapped this picture as the vessel quickly reversed. Cukrász and others had thought that the water was much deeper, having only seen the elephant’s head and trunk as they approached in the boat. “The bull suddenly [stood] up in the shallow water and ran toward us,” he writes, adding that this “was the last shot.”
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