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Elephants are the largest living land animal. Slightly smaller than their African cousins, adult Asian elephants weigh on average between 6,000 and 12,000 pounds (2,750 and 5,420 kilograms). They typically stand 6 to 12 feet (1.8 to 3.8 meters) tall at the shoulder. Males are usually larger than females.
Check out our ten elephant-astic elephant facts! Elephant facts. 1) There are three different species of elephant – the African Savannah elephant, the African Forest elephant and the Asian elephant. Elephants are known for their large ears, tusks made of ivory and their trunks. 2) Elephants are the world’s largest land animal!
Female elephants are social animals, living in herds with their relatives. Males usually live alone but sometimes form small groups with other males. All elephants need a lot of space, sometimes roaming over incredible areas to find enough food and water to sustain them. But their habitats are shrinking. African elephant habitat has declined by ...
When an elephant drinks, it sucks as much as 2 gallons (7.5 liters) of water into its trunk at a time. Then it curls its trunk under, sticks the tip of its trunk into its mouth, and blows. Out comes the water, right down the elephant's throat. Since African elephants live where the sun is usually blazing hot, they use their trunks to help them keep cool. First they squirt a trunkful of cool ...
African forest elephants are herbivores, and they spend most of their waking hours (some 20 hours per day) foraging for food and ingesting between 100 and 300 kg (between about 220 and 660 pounds) of fruits, tree bark, shrubs, grasses, herbs, seeds, and other plant material per day. To access the salt they need in their diets, the elephants visit salt licks and mineral-rich waterholes or ...
Historically, forest elephants thrived in the dense rainforests of west and central Africa but according to the last assessment released in 2021, their population declined by a staggering 86% over a period of 31 years. With around 150,000 forest elephants remaining in the wild, they are now listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List ...
