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Name Of Elephant

Name Elephant
Male Name bull
Femle Name cow
Kids/Baby Name calf
Group Name herd, parade
More About Elephant

  • The elephant is largest land living mammal, which a long time ago they roamed every landmass except Australia and Antarctica.
  • Two extant species, the Indian elephant, of India and Southeast Asia, and the African elephant, ranging south of the Sahara.
  • Elephants typically reach puberty at thirteen or fourteen years of age.
  • They have offspring up until they are around fifty years old.
  • They may live seventy years or possibly more.
  • The trunk is made of many different types of tissue, but contains no bone.
  • The number of muscles within the trunk is estimated to be as high as 100,000! Contrast that with the entire number of muscles in the human body, about 600.
  • Elephants don't drink with their trunks, but use them as "tools" to drink with. This is accomplished by filling the trunk with water and then using it as a hose to pour it into the elephant's mouth.
  • Elephants grieve at a loss of a stillborn baby, a family member, and in many cases other elephants.
  • Technically, elephants are incapable of running. However they can walk very fast, and have been clocked at 18-20 mph! This is as fast as world class Olympic hurdlers.
  • Elephants eat grass, small branches, and bark from trees. They especially like leaves from the top branches. They get the leaves by pushing down the trees with their large heads and bodies. Then they get the bark by scraping it with their sharp tusks.
  • An elephant 'releases' 2000 litres of methane gas per day.
  • An elephant's eyes are very small in relation to its head. The eye contains very few photoreceptors and they cannot see very well further than a few hundred feet.
  • The approximately 250kg food eaten every day passes through 18m of intestines. Eventually processed into about 100kgS of elephant dung per day.
  • The elephant heart weights 22kg and circulates about 450 litres of blood. Inner "cleaning" is performed by a 77kg liver.
  • Water and trunk: To drink it's 9 litres of water at a time, the elephant uses its trunk which weighs 113kgs.
  • The tail weighs 11 kgs.
  • Elephants only digest about 40% of what they eat, and therefore, they need to spend two-thirds of every day eating.
  • Elephant herds consist of females and the young. A herd is led by a matriarch (grandmother). As young males reached maturity they are chased away by the herd. Bull elephants join the herd for mating.
  • Elephants often rest by raising one foot and crossing it behind another.


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