Fascinating facts about elephants
Check out these interesting elephant facts and learn more about the biggest land mammal in the world.
Elephants perform "burial ceremony" when they lose a member of the herd. They gather around the body and stay in silence for a while. They will use branches to cover the body before they leave.
Elephants can recognize themselves in the mirror. Just few animals beside human toddlers are able to do that.
Elephants don't like to eat peanuts.
Due to their large size, elephants need to eat 150kg of vegetation per day.
Worn out teeth will be replaced 6-7 times in a lifetime (humans replace their milk teeth once in a lifetime).
Elephants flap their ears to cool themselves. If they are cooling themselves in the water, elephants will use their trunk as a snorkel.
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Elephants live 60-70 years in the wild. In captivity they can live more than 80 years.
Elephants herds are matriarchal.Female elephants live in groups of about 15 animals, all related and led by the oldest in the group. She’ll decide where and when they move and rest, day to day and season to season.
An elephant herd is considered one of the most closely knit societies of any animal, and a female will only leave it if she dies or is captured by humans.
Bull elephants court females by using rituals involving various affectionate gestures and nuzzles.
Female African elephants undergo the longest pregnancy — 22 months.
Elephants have been known to induce labour by self-medicating with certain plants.
Mothers will select several babysitters to care for the calf so that she has time to eat enough to produce sufficient milk for it.
Males will leave the herd as they become adolescent, around the age of 12, and live in temporary “bachelor herds” until they are mature enough to live alone.
Male elephants are normally solitary and move from herd to herd.
Homosexual behavior in elephants is common and well-documented.
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