EleFacts Interesting Facts About Elephants

An elephant's brain is about four times the size of a human's brain. Among all animals ever having lived on earth, the brain of the elephant is the largest known.

Experts claim that the trunk of an elephant contains 40,000 or more muscles. The "fingers" formed by the end of the trunk are so sensitive the elephant can pick up a small coin with them. Baby elephants have absolutely no idea what to do with their short trunks. It takes them many months of learning by example before they can even use the trunk to squirt water into their mouths for a drink.

No land dwelling creature on present day earth is large as the elephant. A big bull African can be up to 12 feet at the shoulder and weigh 12,000 pounds. The blue whale is the largest mammal known to inhabit the earth. It dwarfs our favorite creature coming in at 90 feet, 100 tons or 200,000 pounds. It eats 8,000 pounds of krill daily.

Elephants eat quite a lot ... several hundred pounds daily. As far as anyone knows, elephants are strict vegetarians. They spend a good part of their daily lives searching for the large amounts of food they require.

Elephants are unbelievably strong.

Elephant comes from the Greek word "Elephas".

The adult Elephant has no predator except humans; young elephants, if not carefully attended by adults, are prey to large cats such as lions and tiger.

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