1. Elephants are the largest of all land animals in the world.

 

2. It takes a female 22 months from conception to have a baby.

 

3. A newborn elephant can stand up shortly after being born.

    They can weigh up to 260 pounds.

 

4. The average life span for an elephant in the wild is from 50 to 70 years.

    They oldest known elephant in the world lived to be 82 years of age.

 

5. The heaviest elephant in the world weighed 26,000 pounds.

 

6. The word elephant means ivory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. The trunk of an elephant has more than 40,000 muscles in it.

 

8. Elephants are herbivores, this means that they are plant eaters.

 

9. Elephants consume large amounts of water – up to 15 quarts of it at once.

 

10. Elephants love to swim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11. Elephants have an excellent sense of smell and hearing but poor eyesight.

 

12. The tusks of an elephant can weigh up to 200 pounds and can grow up to 10 feet in length.

 

13. The elephant is one of the few four legged animals that can’t run.

 

14. Baby elephants are blind at birth and rely upon their trunks and their mothers to help them.

 

15. Reproduction can take place any time of the year for elephants.