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Surprising facts about elephants you didn’t know
Let’s explore some wild facts about Elephants.
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Elephants eat all day. They can feed for up to 16 hours a day. In the wild, they may eat 250 to 600 pounds of food daily.
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They don’t digest food well. Elephants digest less than half of what they eat. They poop 12 to 15 times a day, that’s 220 to 250 pounds.
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Their waste can power a car. With the right equipment, one elephant’s daily methane could run a car for 20 miles.
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Each elephant drinks 25 to 50 gallons (100-200 litres) of water a day.
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An elephant’s trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water.
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Only male Asian elephants have big tusks. Females have tiny ones called “tushes” that barely show.
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Elephant tusks never stop growing. Some can weigh over 200 pounds each.
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An elephant’s heartbeat is just 27 beats per minute.
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