Elephants are herbivores, feeding on herbs, grasses, fruits and leaves of trees. Given its size, an adult elephant can eat between 70 and 150 kg of food per day. Females live in herds of 10 to 15 animals, led by a matriarch, composed of several breeders and offspring of various ages. The gestation period is long (20 to 22 months) as well as the development of the animal that takes years to reach adulthood. The cubs can be born with 90 kg. Adolescent males tend to live in small groups and adult males alone, lying with females only during the reproductive period.

Due to their size, elephants have few predators. Elephants have a strong influence on the savannahs by keeping trees and shrubs under control, allowing pastures dominate the environment. They live about 60 years and die when their molars fall, preventing feed on plants.

African elephants are larger than the Asian varieties and ears are more developed, an adaptation which releases heat in high temperature conditions. Another important difference is the absence of tusks in Asian elephants.

• How the elephants are the only animal with four knees if you are chased by one, up to a lot, since they can not go forward. (Of course, the African savannah not many hills).

• The electric eel in a can contain up to 650 volts - enough to kill an elephant.

• An African elephant has so much skill "manual" on the snout that turns up pages of a book.

• It is common for elephants to remain standing after they die.

• Elephants are not the only pachyderms. The word means "thick skin". The rhinos and hippos are also pachyderms.

• What is the similarity between an elephant and a car? The radiator! Elephants have a network of blood vessels behind the ears that function as a radiator keeping the body temperature constant.

• In circuses, there are more deaths caused by elephants than by the tigers and lions.

• Elephants communicate in sound frequency of 5 Hz So if you hit palms faster than 5 times per second, the elephants can hear the tone that you produced.

• The elephant can smell water at a distance of 5 km

• The female elephants have breasts like a human.

• Elephants are capable of swimming 32 miles per day.

• Elephants can not jump.

• In Jurassic Park, the sound of T-Rex was made with a mixture of sounds of a crocodile, a lion, a tiger and a baby elephant.

• The gestation period of elephants can reach up to 24 months.

• During your lifetime you'll eat about 30,000 pounds of food, this is more or less the weight of six elephants.

• Elephants can not jump. Every other mammal can.

• The weight of a newborn elephant is 100 Kg

• Contrary to what makes you think, the elephants are not afraid of mice. If you go to a zoo, it is very likely that there are rats living in the precincts of elephants. Scientists believe that in 2010 the elephants will be extinct due to excessive hunting for their ivory tusks • Elephants mourn the death of other elephants. It is common to take the bones of the dead to a cemetery.

• Elephants run at a speed between 50 to 65 mph. • The first bomb thrown by the Allies on Berlin during World War 2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. • The elephants eat about 230 kg of food per day.

• The elephant in the penis measures about 1.6 meters. The largest land animal kingdom.

• African elephants are the largest land animals in the world. They attain a height of 3.7 m can weigh up to four to seven tons, thanks to the 150 pounds of food eaten daily. Your skin gets to be four inches thick. The pets are herbivorous and live in the savannahs of Africa, where they live always in a group up to 60 years.

• The trunk of an elephant is moved by muscles around 4000.