10 FACTS ABOUT ELEPHANT


Elephant are herbivorous and will eat leaves, twigs, fruits, bark, grass and roots...

1. Life span - Elephant can live for up to 70 years .

 2. Elephant normally walk about 4 mph.

 3. Elephant are able to swim for long distance. They use their trunk to breath like a snorkel in deep.

 4. Elephant consume as much as 300-495 pound of food per day.

 5. They have the largest brains in the animal kingdom.

 6. Elephant are the largest land-living mammal in the world.

 7. An  adult elephant needs to  drinks around 210 litters of water a day.

 8. Elephant are around 200 pounds when they are born.

 9. Elephant sleep about 2 hours per day.

 10.  The elephant's eyes are small and its eyesight is poor.


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