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1. Elephants are pregnant for a whopping 22 months. Longer than any other animal. That’s nearly 2 years!
2. At birth, a baby elephants weigh 210 lbs (or 95kg).
3. African elephants are smaller at birth than Asian elephants but are much bigger as adults.
4. The trunk is an incredibly useful, dexterous and clever appendage. It is able to sense the size, shape and temperature of an object.
5. Their trunks are pretty incredible and elephants have an amazing sense of smell, but their eyesight isn’t great.
6. To prove that point, elephants can smell water from 12 miles away!
7. That makes sense when you consider that they drink 210 litres of water a day.
8. Elephants spend up to 16 hours foraging every day.
9. But only 2-3 hours are spent sleeping. That shows what their priorities are!
10. All those mud baths that elephants take? That is because elephants actually have very sensitive skin, so they use the mud and dust to protect it
11. The typical lifespan of an elephant is 70 years!
12. Sadly, around 100 elephants are killed every day for their ivory tusks.
13. On a lighter note, elephants are the only mammals besides humans to have chins!
14. An elephant has more than 100,000 muscle. 40 000 of which are in that amazing trunk. To put that in perspective, we humans have a paltry 639!
15. But elephants are afraid of bees!
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