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African elephants travel hundreds of miles seeking water

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Guided entirely by the memory of the oldest female, enormous mammals angrily trek across sun-baked dirt just to find a muddy puddle. If the matriarch forgets the route, the entire herd basically just wanders until they suffer.

African elephants travel hundreds of miles seeking water
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