Elephant Facts
Elephants have a slower pulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000! |
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Only one mammal can't jump -- the elephant. |
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The trunk of an elephant can hold up to two gallons of water. |
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The elephant is the national animal of |
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In a day, an elephant can drink 80 gallons of water. |
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In 1916, an elephant was tried and hung for murder in |
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Elephants have been known to learn up to 60 commands. |
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During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on |
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An elephant's trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water. |
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An elephant's tooth can weight as much as three kilograms. |
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An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 - 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period. |
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An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more. |
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Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication. |
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An African adult elephant eats about six hundred pounds of food a day; that’s four percent of the elephant’s body weight! |