Elephants can run up to 25 miles per hour, which is amazing for such a large creature. Elephants are the only mammal incapable of jumping or leaving the ground. 
Female elephants live tight-knit lives with their families, while male elephants are more on the introverted side and live most of their lives by themselves.Male elephants leave their family around the age of 14 years old.An elephants heart weighs between 27 and 46 pounds.African elephants can weigh up to 14,000 pounds, which is about the weight of three cars.When elephants greet each other, they twine their trunks together.
Asian elephants are slightly smaller, around 9 feet tall and weighing 6,000 to 13,000 pounds.African elephants are usually around 10 feet tall, weighing 8,000 to 16,000 pounds.African elephants have large ears shaped like the continent of Africa.There are only three species of elephants the African Savannah elephant, African Forest elephant, and the Asian elephant.The back part of the elephants ears is called its “knuckles” and it’s known as the softest part of their body.Elephants can hold up to 4 gallons of water in their trunks at one time.As long as they feel secure and they have plenty of food it is something that will regularly occur. Reproduction can take place any time of the year for elephants.This is why those that work closely with them have to get a vaccination to prevent it. Elephants are known to have a type of tuberculosis which can be transferred to humans.They tend to have a new baby every 2 ½ to 4 years. Females can continue to have offspring until they are about 50 years old.Males enter stages referred to as must where they are in a state of madness for a short period of time.
Males tend to go through cycles where they are instinctively aggressive.
Most elephants in zoos, working, and in the circus are females as they seem to be easier to control. Baby elephants are blind at birth and rely upon their trunks and their mothers to help them. They can consume from 300 to 600 pounds of food every single day. For up to 16 hours a day elephants can be found feeding on a variety of plant life. At 11 pounds, the elephant has a brain that is larger than any other animal in the world. The tusks of an elephant can weigh up to 200 pounds and can grow up to 10 feet in length. Just like people are either right or left handed it is believed that these animals rely upon a dominant tusk. This is because the elephant will use it more often for things. Generally one tusk will be shorter than the other. Elephants have an excellent sense of smell and hearing but poor eyesight. They eat a lot of different types of plants, mostly eating leaves, bark, fruits of trees and shrubs. The trunk of an elephant has more than 150,000 muscles and tendons in it. Movies such as “Dumbo” and pretty much any cartoon containing an elephant have perpetutated this myth for many decades, however the origin dates far further back in time (perhaps even as early as A.D. It is only a myth that elephants are afraid of mice. The heaviest elephant in the world weighed 26,000 pounds. 
They oldest known elephant in the world lived to be 82 years of age.
The average life span for an elephant in the wild is from 50 to 70 years. A newborn elephant can stand up shortly after being born. This is longer than any other animal in the world. It takes a female 22 months from conception to have a baby. Elephants are the largest of all land animals in the world. There are many great facts about the elephant though that you should learn about, and this is the place to do so. Want to know more about elephants? Check out our list of 115 elephants to learn more about these wonderful creatures! Most of us are well aware of elephants and have even seen at least one of them in person at a zoo or circus.
0 kommentar(er)
