Some interesting facts about Elephants
- At the age of 16, an elephant can reproduce, but rarely has more than four children throughout her lifetime
- The elephant brain is 3 or 4 times larger than that of humans
- Elephants are highly sensitive and caring animals
- Elephants are the largest land animals in the world.
- Elephants can live to be over 70 years old.
- Elephant can’t jump
- Elephants have poor eyesight
- Tusks are an elephant’s incisor teeth
- The average weight for an elephant heart is about 12 Kg to 40 Kg
- An elephant’s skin is an inch thick.
- Elephants have the longest pregnancy of all the animals. It takes a female 22 months from conception to give birth..
- Elephants prefer one tusk over the other, just as people are either left or right-handed.
- The elephant trunk has more than 40,000 muscles in it.
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