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In a visual and audible display of power, using the forefeet in a vigourous and exaggerated swinging motion to splash water and mud onto the underside of the body. Typicallypart of a musth display and associated with Musth-Rumbling and Ear-Waving.

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Pascal comes to a mud-wallow with an estrous female he is Guarding and her family. There he engages in a typical Musth-Display that involves Musth-Rumbling, Ear-Waving, Exaggerated-Splash-with-Foot, Tusk-Ground, Trunk-Curling. (Amboseli, Kenya)

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