Amazing Facts On Elephants

Would you like to see some elephant facts in your freetime? I believe that these following facts will be interested to you:

1. An elephant is one of the few four legged animals, which cannot run or jump.
2. At birth, the baby elephants are blind and they depend on their trunk and their mothers to help them.
3. Females can mate and have babies until they are around 50 years old, and they tend to give birth every 2.5 to 4 years.
4. Elephants feed around 16 hours a day and they consume around 300 to 600 pounds of vegetation every day.
5. Male elephants go through bouts of aggression, which last for short periods.  Hence, female elephants are kept at the zoos and used in the circus, as they are gentler in nature.
6. Elephants are social animals and they are often seen touching and caressing one another and playing around with the trunks.
7. An elephants tusk grows up to around 10 feet and weighs around 200 pounds.
8. There are two recognised species (types) of elephants the African elephant and the Asian elephant. The Indian elephant is a sub species of the Asian elephant. Elephants live in areas of Africa, Southern and Southeast Asia
9. The elephant is the national animal of Thailand.
10. A newborn elephant is able to stand up on its feet very soon after it’s born.
11. An elephant’s trunk has more than 40,000 muscles in it and no bones, which give it the flexibility. However, the trunk can get very heavy at times. So, the elephants are seen to rest it on their tusk.
12. Elephants consume around 15 quarts of water at a time.
13. As the elephants rely on one tusk more than the other, usually one tusk goes through the grinding leading to one being longer than the other.
14. Elephants use their trunks as a hose pipe by filling their trunks and then pouring the water in the mouth.
15. African and Asian elephants differ in several ways, but the variation in ears is commonly used to differentiate them. Some say that African species have ears that look like a map of Africa, and the Asian species have smaller ears that look like a map of India. Other differences include the body size, African elephants are much bigger and heavier, the skin is more wrinkled and tusks larger. The tip on the trunk of an African elephant has two prong like tips which are used to grasp objects whereas the Asian elephant has only one
16. Elephants walk behind each other in a single line when they are travelling.
17. An elephant poops around 80 pounds of feces in a day.
18. The elephant rests by raising one foot and crossing it behind the other one.
19. Just like dolphins and parrots, the elephant can also do mimicry. Some elephants in Kenya who were raised near the highway were heard to make truck sounds.
20. On an average, the elephant sleeps for around 2 hours in a day.

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