Amazing facts about African elephant

Amazing facts about African elephant

Amazing facts about African elephant

 

1 – African elephants are the largest land animals on earth

2- African Elephants can be identified by their large ears that look like the continent of Africa.

3- Elephant ears radiate heat while they are  moved, to keep the Elephant cool

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4- Also elephants are fond of water to reduce their body heat, by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves, then they often spray their skin with coating of dust to keep the cool protected from the sunlight.

 

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5- An elephant's trunk is a long nose used for

  smelling, breathing, trumpeting and grabbing things especially food, trunk alone contains more than 100,000 muscles

African elephants have two fingerlike feature on the end of their trunks they use them it to grab small items. Asian elephants have only one.

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6-  male and female African elephants have tusks they use to dig for food and water also to strip bark from trees.

Males also use their tusks to battle one anther.

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7- Elephants consume 136 kg of food in a single day which includes : roots, grass, fruit and bark

8- the Elephants move in large distances to be able to find huge amounts of food which they require

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9- the female Elephants (cows) with their young in herds while the male elephant (bulls)

 live on their own.

10- Elephants have the longest pregnancy amongst mammals, almost 22 months.

Usually cows give birth every two to four years.

Baby elephants weight some 91kg and stand about 1 meter tall

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