In the hot and humid rainy season, Luangwa's elephants keep cool by bathing in the reddish mud. By contrasting the two reddish elephants to one brownish one, it’s easy to see the effect of such pleasures. The elephant at the rear has been nursing the calf in the middle. This image is organized into layers – with the bushes in the foreground adding depth perspective, the two smaller elephants as the middle layer, and the massive nursing mother as the background layer.