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Elephants are herbivores, spending 16 hours a day collecting plant food. Their diet is at least 50% grasses, supplemented with leaves, bamboo, twigs, bark, roots, and small amounts of fruits, seeds and flowers. Because elephants only digest 40% of what they eat, they have to make up for their digestive system's lack of efficiency in volume. An adult elephant can consume 140-270 kg (300-600 lb) of food a day. 60% of that food leaves the elephant's body undigested, (Wikipedia)
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∙ 13y agoVegetation. Anything from bark to new grass.
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∙ 14y agoElephants will eat grass, bark, and salt from caves. They will also eat mud, because of the nutrients in it.
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∙ 11y agocupcake that is the eleaphants favorit food
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∙ 15y agoMainly grass
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What pizza does your elephant eat?
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What eats an Asian elephant?
Tigers
Is a Indian elephant a carnivore-herbivore or omnivore?
An African elephant is a herbivore.
What does elephant eats?
Elephants can eat a lot of fruit, grasses, bark and roots. In a single day, an adult elephant can eat up to 300 pound of food.
Is an elephant a autotroph or hetertroph?
An elephant is a heterotroph, meaning it eats plants and other animals to obtain food. Autotrophs are organisms like plants that are able to produce their own food.
Where is an elephant in the food chain?
An elephant only eats plants, so therefore an elephant is not top on the food chain. The elephant is above plants and below the top predators.
How does elephant eats?
Using its trunk to put food in its mouth
How elephant eats their food?
Scoops up in trunk then puts in mouth, which is behind the trunk.
What pizza does your elephant eat?
my elphent eats my chocolate that is made naturally my some hole my elephant eats chocolate that is made by a hole my elephant eats chocolate that is made by a hole
What kind of animal eats elephant?
A bigger elephant
How much does an elephant eat and drink each day?
It eats around 300-600 pounds of food a day.
What happens at the end of An elephant in the garden?
A cat eats the elephant
How does a elephant get food?
through its trunk 2nd answer: The elephant neither eats nor drinks through its trunk, although it does use its trunk to spray water into its mouth. The elephant grazes for its green food . . . certain grasses, certain tree leaves, and so forth. It uses its trunk to push or pull food into its mouth.
What eats elephant seals?
Killer wales eat elephant seals
An elephant eats only grasses and plants What is an elephant called?
carnivores
What eats more an elephant or a rhino?
a rhino has a smaller stomach than an elephant, so elephant is the answer.
What eats an Asian elephant?
Tigers
