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An elephant drinks from a swimming pool at a tented camp on the boundaries of Hwange National Park in northern Zimbabwe
The 14,600-sq.-kmpark is home to more than 450,000 savanna elephants.
Now, blackened corpses, many of infant elephants, scar this landscape where the rains have been more than six weeks late and temperatures have regularly hit 40 degrees C.
Hwange National Park is in west Zimbabwe.
Its grasslands and mopane woods are home to large elephant herds, lions and African wild dogs.
In the northwest, animals gather at Mandavu and Masuma dams, where there are concealed lookouts.
Bumbusi National Monument includes 18th-century ruins and pre-colonial rock carvings.
In the southeast, waterholes include the Nyamandhlovu Pan, with its elevated viewing platform.
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