Everyday Fact of life: Facts on Elephants for kids

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An elephant is one of the few four legged animals, which cannot run or jump.
At birth, the baby elephants are blind and they depend on their trunk and their mothers to help them.
Females can mate and have babies until they are around 50 years old, and they tend to give birth every 2.5 to 4 years.
Elephants feed around 16 hours a day and they consume around 300 to 600 pounds of vegetation every day.
Male elephants go through bouts of aggression, which last for short periods. Hence, female elephants are kept at the zoos and used in the circus, as they are gentler in nature.
Elephants are social animals and they are often seen touching and caressing one another and playing around with the trunks.
An elephants tusk grows up to around 10 feet and weighs around 200 pounds.
Elephants cool themselves by fanning their ears. This cool down the blood in their ears, which completely cools them off.

Despite the size of elephant ears the quality of hearing is poor! The body at the back of an elephant ear is surprisingly soft, and called the knuckle, this area is used by trainers to steer and give commands to the elephant. The ears on an African elephant are flapped to help keep the animal cool
Elephants are herbivores, they eat varying types of vegetation including grass, leaves, fruits, and bark
Elephants have a walking speed of approximately 4 mph. A surprising fact is that they are able to swim for long distances!
Elephants walk behind each other in a single line when they are travelling.
An elephant poops around 80 pounds of feces in a day.
The elephant rests by raising one foot and crossing it behind the other one.
Just like dolphins and parrots, the elephant can also do mimicry. Some elephants in Kenya who were raised near the highway were heard to make truck sounds.
On an average, the elephant sleeps for around 2 hours in a day.
Elephant’s tusks are of ivory and they are actually the elongated and enlarged incisors.
Elephants have a very sharp memory and they have the largest brains in the kingdom.
They are great swimmers and are able to swim for long distances.

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