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Yes, The word mammal is Latin meaning, of the breast. A mammal is a warmblooded vertebrate animal, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin. Female mammals produce milk from mammary glands for feeding the young.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoA baby elephant suckles milk from its mother's breast with its mouth. The milk is very nourishing and elephant babies can put on weight at the rate of 10 to 20 kilograms a month.
The reason it drinks with its mouth is because it has not yet learned how to use its trunk.
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∙ 14y agoNo, that's just an urban legend that is only seen in movies. They really hold the water in their trunks, and then pour it into their mouths, like a spoon. Sucking the water up their trunk would be in comparison to us sucking water up our noses. Pretty uncomfortable.
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∙ 13y agoYes; newborn baby elephants have been observed to do this. I know this because it is discussed in the BBC documentary Echo and Other Elephants. A newborn baby is shown sucking its trunk much as a human infant sucks its thumb!
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∙ 14y agoFemale elephants usually stay with their mothers and their parent herd forever, whereas male elephants are nomads. They leave their mother at around 4-5 years of age and then live a life of solitude. They are usually seen around other female elephant herds only when one of the females is in heat.
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∙ 14y agoAlmost all baby mammals drink milk. Is an elephant a mammal? I think so.
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∙ 9y agoYes, Elephants are mammals, all mammals feed their young milk from their "mammary" glands (hence the word "mammal").
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∙ 8y agoElephant babies like all mammals drink milk from their mothers.
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Where do elephants find water?
Elephants absolutly LOVE water! With their families they go to the water hole where a lot of water is. They cool off in the hot sun jsut sitting in water. And of course they LOVE to drink it! They bathe in water!
When an elephant drink water does it taste like buggers?
The do not drink water through their nose (trunk). They suck water up the trunk and then put their trunk in their mouths and squirt the warer out of the trunk into their mouths to drink.
How many quarts can an elephants trunk hold?
Up to 15 quarts
What do elephants use their trunks for?
elephants use their trunks for many things. the main things are to : - reach up into trees and get leaves. - when they are eating or drinking water they get the food/water with their trunk and hold it with their trunk then they scoop it into their mouth.
Do elephants drink out of their nose?
Answer : Yes,an elephant breathes through its trunk, or proboscis, which has 2 nostrils through which air can pass.But an elephants muscular trunk-which nearly reaches the ground- can do several other remarkable things. On the end of the trunk is a sensitive, fingertip lip or protuberance( an African elephant has 2) that can feel and pick up food and other objects.
How does elephants drink?
Actually an elephant uses its trunk to suck the water up and then it basically uses it like a hose to water itself.
Where do elephants find water?
Elephants absolutly LOVE water! With their families they go to the water hole where a lot of water is. They cool off in the hot sun jsut sitting in water. And of course they LOVE to drink it! They bathe in water!
How does an elephant hold the water in his trunk?
They suck it up and it stays there
Do elephants drink water?
Yes. Elephants do drink water.They use their trunk (their nose). They pull the water up from the watering hole through their trunk and then spray it into their mouth.
Do elephants drink through their trunk?
No, elephants do not really drink "through" their trunks, but rather suck water up with their trunks, and squirt it into their mouths. They also squirt themselves with water to bathe! An elephant's trunk is a very long nose, with six major muscle groups, and over a hundred thousand individual muscles! An average sized elephant can hold approximately 4 liters of water in its trunk!
Do elephants suck water through their noses?
Yes they suck it up but don't swallow it. After the water is sucked up they either splash it out onto their bodies or into their mouths.
When an elephant drink water does it taste like buggers?
The do not drink water through their nose (trunk). They suck water up the trunk and then put their trunk in their mouths and squirt the warer out of the trunk into their mouths to drink.
How much do adult elephants drink water?
Elephants drink a lot of water. They can suck up around 15 litres of water in their trunk in one go. During hot summers they can drink around 100 litres or more water in one sitting. They usually stay close to water sources like lakes and rivers and drink once or twice a day.
Why does an elephant use its trunk?
It uses its trunk to pick up food, break branches from trees, lift items, to suck up water to drink etc.
How does long trunk help the elephant to cope up with the environment?
Elephants live in forests where rich vegetations are usually high up in the tree. The leaves of plants form the basic source of food for the elephants and the tusks help them bend or break branches of the trees and help them pluck out the leaves and fruits from the trees. The trunks also help them suck up water and helps them drink.
Why are trunks helpful to elephants?
In every way! Elephants' trunks evolved because as they grew taller and taller, they had no way to reach water or food. That is the main purpose of the trunk, to get food and water. The trunk can pluck leaves off an over-hanging branch, or push down the tree that branch is on and strip the bark of to eat. The ability to preform such a wide range of motions comes from the "finger" on the tip of the elephants trunk that is very sensitive and accurate. Asian elephants have one finger, Africans have 2. To drink, elephant suck up to 2 gallons of water into their trunk and spray it into their mouth. The trunk is also uses in Male elephant fights, and as a way of communication. Elephants trumpet to alert their herd, to exhibit emotion, or to scare off predators. Their trunks are really noses as well as all of these tools, and extremely accurate ones at that. Elephants can smell water up to ten miles away by lifting their trunks into the air. Like a human baby learning to use its hands, elephant babies have to develope the fine motors skills that allow them to pick up a blade of grass. They also have to learn just how to take a drink of water once they're finished nursing. These are literally a few of the reasons an elephant without a trunk would be unable to survive.
How many quarts can an elephants trunk hold?
Up to 15 quarts
