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A single bull elephant excretes 40 tons of droppings per year.", "Long in the tooth.

Not surprisingly, elephants require huge amounts of food.

Elephants can eat over 800 pounds of food a day. They will push down trees to get at the foliage and bark, grinding it down with their massive 'washboard' molars.

To eat the bark from trees, elephants hold a tree trunk with their trunk and rotate it as they scrape the bark away, like an ear of corn. Elephants go through six sets of molars in their lives, but the last ones comes in about the 25th year.

They can live from 60 to 70 years but if the last set of molars become worn out, the elephant will no longer be able to eat and will starve to death.", "All things in moderation.

An elephant can consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day.", "Elephants are faster than they look.

An elephant, despite its ponderous appearance, can run up to 25 miles an hour on an open stretch of land.", "Want to see a trick?

Elephants have some rather unique talents. Along with humans, elephants are the only animals able to stand on their heads. They also remain standing after they die.

Unfortunately, they are the only animals that cannot jump.", "Social security.

Elephant herds post their own sentries which serve as a sort of security system. When danger threatens, the sentry raises its trunk and though it may be as far as half-mile away, the rest of the herd is instantly alerted.

How this was possible was not understood, until it was recently discovered that elephants make a variety of calls that are subsonic (below the range of human hearing).", "The elephant whisperer.

Elephants communicate a lot more than we know.

They make low frequency sounds that are below the human range of hearing. This allows wandering individuals within the herd, as well as in several different herds, to stay in direct contact over distances of many miles.", "Who needs a baby sitter?

Female elephants are one of the few mammals who live beyond their reproductive years. During this post-reproductive time, older female elephants take care of the young elephants in the herd while the mothers seek food.", "That's mammoth.

The elephants' ancestor was even more imposing than today's. The Woolly Mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks sixteen feet in length.", "Seeing Double.

According to 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not!' an adult two-trunked elephant was shot in Zimbabwe in 2004.", "Water, please!

An elephant can smell water three miles away.", "Weight watchers.

An elephant eats between 300 and 600 pounds of food per day and spend 16 hours a day collecting it. Elephants eat a large volume of food because they have an ineffective digestive system. 60% of their food leaves the body undigested. ", "A young mother.

Elephants may live as long as 70 years. They usually become pregnant for the first time at age 13, and give birth roughly every 5 years. Labour ranges in length from 5 minutes to 60 hours. Female elephants continue to reproduce until they are 55-60 years old.", "Thick skinned.

In most places an elephant’s skin is one inch thick, although the skin around the mouth and inside the ear is paper thin. That's why elephants are called pachyderm, which literally means 'thick skin'.

Elephants wallow in mud to help protect their sensitive skin; which acts as a sun screen and keeps moisture in.", "Its nice to meet you.

Elephant’s greet each other by entwining their trunks, almost like a handshake. They also play-wrestle with their trunks and use them to caress their mates.

The trunk has a highly developed sense of smell and it can sniff-out friends, enemies and food. A raised trunk is a warning or threat, and a lowered trunk is a sign of submission. ", "Lost a toe.

Elephants have four toes on their front feet and three on their rear feet.", "Scuba diving.

Elephants use their trunks as snorkels when crossing deep rivers and lakes.", "Root it out!

Elephants use their tusks to dig up roots and pry bark off trees.", "Extra carriage.

The elephant's trunk weighs 308 pounds and can hold up to 1.5 gallons of liquid.", "Bend at the knee.

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.", "The comedian.

Some elephants are great impersonators. Mlaika, an elephant in Tsavo National Park in Kenya, imitates the traffic sounds she hears from a nearby highway, said to be indistinguishable from the actual traffic.", "Overdue!

The elephant has the longest pregnancy of any land animal. They carry their unborn babies for a record 22 months.

At birth an elephant calf can weigh up to 265 pounds, and stand over 2½ feet tall. They are born almost totally blind, but use their trunks to move around.", "Make a muscle.

The elephant’s trunk is made of more than 40,000 individual muscles. The trunk is sensitive enough to pick up a blade of grass and strong enough to rip the branches from a tree. Elephants also siphon water with their trunk, up to 15 quarts at a time.", "First cousins.

The rock hyrax is the closest living relative to the elephant.", ];