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~ The elephant mother and baby, who'd arrived after others were already drinking water in the Ewaso Nyiro riverbed, walked to a small pool of water away from others. Together they drank for several minutes. The mother walked up a bank with her baby lagging behind. After it caught up to her, they returned to the river for more water, the baby conspicuously leaning into its mother in a gesture of dependency and closeness. Their ties of affection were self-evidently close, one watching the other, never separated for very long. The innate bond between mother and child is seldom more explicit than between elephants.