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- Elephants can perceive sound frequencies inaudible to humans. Some
times they communicate each other through infrasonic waves. Large ears
help them to receive a wide range of frequencies.
- Elephants always fan their ears; this action cools their body.
Elephants have few sweat glands, so the fanning of the ears regulates the body
temperature.
- Elephants travel a long distance in search of food
- Elephants trunkful water almost weighs 10L. He uses the trunk as a
hose and pour this into the mouth.
- Elephants drink 250L of water per day
- Elephants are vegetarians
- The gestation period is 21 months
- Elephants have clean eating habits. They dust out the dirt
from the eatables.
- Elephants can recognize people by their smell even after years.
- The tusk is an extension of the upper teeth
- The trunk is formed by the upper lip and the nose and is made up of 100000
muscles
- Elephants have large memory capacity
- Captive elephant population in Kerala is approximately 600;nearly 500 of
these are bulls.
- Bull elephants without tusks are called 'makhans'
- Most of theelephants have 18 nails, some of them have 20
- The testes of male elephant is placed abdominally, they enlarge during
musth time.
- The vulval openings of a cow elephant are between the hind legs, they mate
like all other quadrepeds.
- Elephants have no gall bladder
Trunk-The most attractive part of the elephant. This is an extension of the
nose and the upper lip. Using this part elephant smells, breaths, collects food,
trumpets, grabs things and
sprays water over the body. In humans sweating is done through the skin but in
elephant sweating is through the trunks. The trunk contains 100,000
muscles.
A baby elephant weigh almost 91Kg and almost have height of 9Meters.
Female elephants are called cow
Male elephants are called bull
An adult elephant can eat 136Kg of food in a single day
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