Amazing world facts of elephants
- An adult elephant needs to drink around 210 litres of water a day.
- It’s true that elephants aren’t fans of tiny critters.
- African elephants avoid eating a type of acacia tree that is home to ants because they don’t want the ants to get inside their trunks, which are full of sensitive nerve endings.
- Elephants sleep standing up.
- Elephants communicate within their herds or between herds many kilometers away by stamping their feet and making sounds too low for human ears to perceive.
- The oldest known elephant in the world lived for 86 years (1917 – 2003). The average lifespan of an elephant is from 50 to 70 years. The largest known elephant was shot in Angola in 1956 and weighed about 24 000 pounds! It had a shoulder height of 3.96 metres!ground water.
- They evolved large, thin ears to help regulate their body temperature and keep cool.
- The elephant’s trunk is able to sense the size, shape, and temperature of an object.
- An elephant uses its trunk to lift food and suck up water, then pour it into its mouth.
- An elephant’s trunk can grow to be about 2 metres long and can weigh up to 140 kg.
- Scientists believe that an elephant’s trunk is made up of 100,000 muscles.
- Elephants can swim – they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water.
- The tusks of an elephant are modified incisors that grow throughout an elephant’s lifetime. An adult male’s tusks grow about 7 inches a year. Tusks are used to dig for salt, water and roots, to debark trees, to clear a path and occasionally in fights. Additionally, they are used for marking trees to establish an elephant’s territory.
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