Tuesday, August 23, 2011


SOME BORING THINGS / ELEPHANTS
The name of an adult male is referred to as a bull
The name of an adult female is referred to as a cow
The name or offspring, or a baby Elephant, is a calf
The average size of a litter is just one elephant
The collective name for a group of Elephants is a herd
The sounds made by an adult Elephant are referred to as grunts, purrs, bellows, whistles and trumpeting

SOME LESS BORING BUT STILL PRETTY BORING THINGS / ELEPHANTS
The elephant is the largest of all land mammals
Life Span - elephants can live for up to 70 years
Elephants normally walk about 4 mph 
Elephants are able to swim for long distances
Elephants spend about 16 hours a day eating
They consume as much as 495 pounds of food per day
They live in tight social units led by an older matriarch
Males leave the herd between the ages of 12 and 15
Their tusks are of ivory and are actually enormously enlarged incisors
The elephant's eyes are small and its eyesight is poor
 They have the largest brains in the animal kingdom

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