Interesting Facts About Elephants
Interesting Facts About Elephants
2. Full-grown elephants can weigh up to 13,000 pounds that is the same as two Hummers!
3. Babies are born weighing about 200 to 250 pounds. The average adult man in the United States weighs 180 pounds.
4. African elephants have large ears that help them stay cool. They use their tusks to fight, dig and eat.
Their trunk is used for breathing, communicating, feeding, and drinking.
5. They have only 6 teeth through their lifetime. The teeth replace each other as they wear down. When
the last one wears down, they may starve to death.
6. Elephants can drink up to 50 gallons of water a day! That would be 50 1-gallon milk jugs.
7. They eat mostly bark, fruit, grass, and leaves. Sometimes they knock trees down to get food.
8. Elephants like spending time together. They are very caring and have been seen helping wounded or
young elephants over obstacles while traveling.
9. There are 3 species of elephants in the world: 2 in Africa and one in Asia.
10. African elephants are the heaviest land animals in the world, weighing 6 to 7 tons. That's the weight of 3.5 cars!
11. African elephants can live up to 70 years.
12. Elephants are herbivores, with a diet of grasses, roots, and bark.
13. Elephants use their ears to keep cool by fanning themselves.
14. An elephants' trunk can lift up to 600 pounds!
15. An elephant's brain is 4x the size of a human brain!
16. Elephants are mainly hunted for their ivory tusks Ivory is very expensive, and is used to make sculptures and luxury items.
17. Ivory is especially popular in Asian countries. Although the sale of ivory has been banned in many countries, many people continue to buy it. As a result, elephants continue to be threatened by hunters who hope to profit from their tusks.
18. Elephants do indeed have excellent memories and can recognize faces and locations that they have not seen in years.
19. An African bull elephant’s ear weighs about 100 lbs (45kg)!
20. Elephants are unique animals in that they identify and care for elephant bones.
21. An elephants drinks by filling its trunk with water and then pouring the water into its mouth. An elephant can hold about 4 litres of water.
22. Elephants have an extraordinary sense of smell, which is said to be many times more discriminating than that of a bloodhound.
23. Elephants are the largest living species of land animal - and they get so large by eating a diet largely made up of leafy greens!
24. The closest living relatives to the elephant are manatees and hippopotami - imagine those family picnics!Elephants are members of the pachyderm family. The word comes from the Greek words for “thick skinned”. The skin of an elephant is about 4 centimeters thick.
26. Elephants can reach speeds of over 40km/h but but they cannot jump. A ditch too wide to step across or an incline too steep to climb is a reliable barrier for elephants. Using their trunks as snorkels and by swallowing air to regulate buoyancy, elephants are great swimmers!
27. A lady’s high heel has greater pressure per square centimetre than an elephant’s foot!
28. Elephants have very large and complex brains. At an average of 4.8 kg the elephant brain is the largest among living and extinct terrestrial mammals.
29. The behavior of elephants both in the wild and in captivity suggests that elephants are able to use their long term memories to “keep score” and to extract “revenge” for wrongs done.
30. Using their trunks as snorkels and by swallowing air to regulate buoyancy, elephants are great swimmers!
31, In 1982 an attendant at the zoo in Prague reported that he had gotten some bad stains on his shirt. He sent the shirt to the laundry, but the stains were still there. On a very hot day at work the attendant took off his shirt and laid it aside. An elephant grabbed the shirt and gulped it down before he could get it back. A day or two later, when the shirt reappeared at the other end, it was still intact; and the stains were gone!
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