Klein & Hubert / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) dust bathing, Botswana.

Neil Aldridge / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) dust bathing on floodplains, Chobe River, Botswana. Vulnerable species.

Yashpal Rathore / Asiatic elephants (Elephas maximus), dust bathing at dawn. Jim Corbett National Park, India.

Yashpal Rathore / Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus) male taking dust bath. Jim Corbett National Park, India. 2014

Bence Mate / Eurasian bee eater (Merops apiaster) dust bathing in sand, Pusztaszer, Hungary, May.

Klein & Hubert / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) taking a dust bath, Chobe National Park, Botswana

Klein & Hubert / Domestic Provence donkeys dust bathing, France.

Wim van den Heever / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) bull dust-bathing, Chyulu Hills, Kenya.

Gavin Hellier / Colourful beach bathing huts at Muizenburg, False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa

Kevin Schafer / Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) throwing sand onto its back, Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India

Mark MacEwen / Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) breeding colony, seals sleeping and sand bathing on beach, King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony in distance. St Andrews Bay, South Georgia. October 2...

Sylvain Cordier / RF-Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) dust bathing. Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free)

John Chan / Shore lark (Eremophila alpestris) dust bathing, Southern California, USA, November

Klein & Hubert / African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) having a dust bath. Chobe National Park, Botswana. Small repro only.

Will Burrard-Lucas / Black and white image of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) bull dust bathing, Tsavo Conservation Area, Kenya. Taken with a remote camera buggy / BeetleCam. Editorial use only. Other uses need clea...

Jack Dykinga / Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) dust-bathing, Catalina State Park, Arizona, Sonoran Desert, USA. August.

Jim Manthorpe / American bison (Bison bison) dust bathing, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, August.

Denis-Huot / Grant's zebra (Equus burchelli granti) resting and taking a dust bath, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Todd Mintz / Bison (Bison bison) dust bathing, Grasslands National Park, Val Marie, Saskatchewan, Canada. July

Christophe Courteau / Desert dwelling African elephants (Loxodonta africana) having dust bath in Damaraland, Namibia.

Christophe Courteau / Ostrich (Struthio camelus) male having a dust bath, Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Christophe Courteau / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) having dust bath, Namibia.

Christophe Courteau / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) having dust bath, Namibia.

Christophe Courteau / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) dust bathing in the dry Hoanib River, Damaraland, Namibia.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), male feeding next to Eastern cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus), Rio Grande Valley, South Texas, Texas, USA. June

Rolf Nussbaumer / Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), young dust bathing, Rio Grande Valley, South Texas, Texas, USA. June

Denis-Huot / RF- Elephant (Loxodonta africana) in mud bath, Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Sean Viljoen / Slow motion clip of an African elephant (Loxodonta africana) dust bathing, Mababe, Botswana.

Sean Viljoen / Slow motion clip of an African elephant (Loxodonta africana) dust bathing, Mababe, Botswana.

Sean Viljoen / African elephants (Loxodonta africana) dust bathing, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

Sean Viljoen / Family of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) dust bathing, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

Sean Viljoen / Family of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) dust bathing, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

Jack Dykinga / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) female blowing dust over body, Masai Mara, Kenya.

Yashpal Rathore / Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus), young male taking dust bath at dawn. Jim Corbett National Park, India.

Yashpal Rathore / Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus), young female taking dust bath at dawn. Jim Corbett National Park, India.

Yashpal Rathore / Asiatic elephants (Elephas maximus), dust bathing at dawn. Jim Corbett National Park, India.

Yashpal Rathore / Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus), male taking dust bath. Jim Corbett National Park, India. 2014

Charlie Summers / American buffalo (Bison bison) bull dust bathing, Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, USA, September.

Wim van den Heever / Southern caracara (Caracara plancus) dust bathing. Pantanal, Brazil.

Markus Varesvuo / Male Hazel grouse (Tetrastes / Bonasa bonasia) sand bathing, Kuusamo, Finland, June.

Klein & Hubert / Domestic Provence donkey rolling, having a dust a bath, France.

Klein & Hubert / Domestic Provence donkey rolling, having a dust a bath, France.

Klein & Hubert / Domestic Provence donkey having a dust a bath, France.

Klein & Hubert / Domestic Provence donkeys dust bathing, France.

Klein & Hubert / Domestic Cotentin donkey, mother pushing foal into dust bath, France.

Klein & Hubert / Cotentin donkey foal dust bathing, France.

Klein & Hubert / Domestic Cotentin donkey watching her foal rolling in dust

Klein & Hubert / Cotentin donkey foal rolling in dust, France.