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Buffaloes wallow in water or mud to cool their
                                               bodies and avoid insect bites and parasites.
                               buffaloes
































                                                                            elephant
                                     hippopotamus


            Hippopotamuses wallow themselves to                 Elephants also regularly wallow
            control their body temperature in extremely         themselves  in mud and water.
            hot weather. Wallowing in water and mud             Search information from various
            also prevents skin diseases and bites of            sources and explain the reason
            horseflies, a type of fly that sucks blood of       they need to wallow.
            other animals.






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