The largest elephant is an African elephant, its weight reaches 7.5 tons, and the height is 4 meters. His Indian relative is a third smaller. To maintain their existence, an adult should eat 200 kg of green mass per day and drink up to 200 liters of water.
Interestingly, like people, elephants are right-handed and left-handed. Right-handers often use the right tusk, because of which, over time, it is more erased and becomes shorter.
Probably the most famous fact about the pregnancy of the elephants, which lasts almost 2 years, more precisely 22 months. Elephants have strong and friendly families, often consisting of several generations, mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers.
Female elephants take care of their cubs 10 – 15 years, and also take part in the education of sisters, brothers, nephews.
Elephants are among the ten most intelligent animals on earth. They have a rich “speech”, an excellent memory and a violent emotional sphere.
