Here are few interesting facts about Elephants that you can tell your kids:
- Elephants are the largest land-living mammal in the world.
- Elephants talk to each other by making sounds called "tummy rumbles"
- There are two popular types of Elephants - The Asian Elephants and the African Elephants
- Both male and female African Elephants have tusks, but only the male Asian Elephants have tusks
- Elephants can swim in water - they use their trunk to breathe in deep water.
- Elephants are herbivores - they eat leaves, twigs, bamboo and roots.
- Elephants drink plenty of water. An elephant needs to drink 200+ litres of water a day. An Elephant can smell water 3 miles away. It could carry 2 gallons of water in its trunk.
- Elephants live for 70 - 80 years.
- An elephant weigh about 10,000+ pounds and can reach the heigh of 8+ feet.
- The biggest danger for Elephants are Humans. They mercilessly kill elephants for their tusk.