Elephant Facts

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• There are two types of Elephants, Asian and African.

• Elephant’s scientific names: African is Loxodonta Africana, and the Asian name is Elephas Maximus.

• Elephants are the largest land mammal in the world.

• As herbivores, elephants eat bark, grasses, fruits and roots.

• Elephants have a highly developed brain and the largest of all the land mammals.
  

  Elephants can live to be over 70 years old.

• Elephants can hear one another trumpeting calls up to 5 miles (8 kilometers) away.

• Female elephants live in groups of about 15 animals, all related and led by a matriarch.

• The elephant has such sensitive skin that it can feel a fly landing on it.

• Elephants don’t like peanuts.

• Elephants have poor eyesight but an amazing sense of smell.

• At the age of 16, an elephant can reproduce, but rarely has more than four children throughout her lifetime.

• Female elephants are called cows.

• Elephants have the longest pregnancy of all the animals. It takes a female 22 months from conception to give birth.

• A baby elephant typically stands about 3 feet (1 m) tall and weighs about 200 pounds (91 kg).

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