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When does an elephant becomes an adult?
Elephants reach adulthood when they are around 10 years or so old. Usually male elephants achieve full maturity and size when they are around 14 years of age. At that age, males leave the herd and go off to lead a solitary life. Females however remain with the herd.
What is a youn g elephant?
A young elephant is called a calf. Calves become mature at around 10 to 13 years old. Females will live with her mother's herd for life and start breeding at age 13. Males will leave the herd and join a bachelor herd. The males will come back from time to time to check in on the herd.
Do Elephant live in groups?
Yes, elephants have very established social order. Each herd has a matriarch, and consist of adult females, and young males and females. The mother, sisters, aunts, and female cousins will raise the young elephants. They will show them where routes to water are, where to find food, specific behaviors, and other things the young elephants need to know. They pass down traditions, sometimes that are specific to their herd. As elephants get older, the females usually stay in the herd. Males will leave at about four years of age. They will go out on their own, or sometimes join smaller all male herds. Sometimes, if a younger elephant is separated from the herd, another herd will take them in. A female elephant will adopt him in, and other females will act as the aunts or relatives that help to raise and teach it.
Do elephants band together?
African Elephants live in herds primarily. The majority of herds are led by a matriarch (oldest female), and the rest of the herd would consist of her sisters, and their children. The majority of elephants within a herd are related, except for when a male elephant would come into the herd to mate with the females that were in oestrus (in season). Once young male elephants are old enough (I don't know what age that might be) they leave the herd and head out by themselves. They will only come into a herd for mating season, and will encounter other males who they may fight for the right to mate particular females.
Do elephant live in social group?
Yes, elephants have very established social order. Each herd has a matriarch, and consist of adult females, and young males and females. The mother, sisters, aunts, and female cousins will raise the young elephants. They will show them where routes to water are, where to find food, specific behaviors, and other things the young elephants need to know. They pass down traditions, sometimes that are specific to their herd. As elephants get older, the females usually stay in the herd. Males will leave at about four years of age. They will go out on their own, or sometimes join smaller all male herds. Sometimes, if a younger elephant is separated from the herd, another herd will take them in. A female elephant will adopt him in, and other females will act as the aunts or relatives that help to raise and teach it.
What age can an Elefant leave its mother?
I'll answer this when you spell Elephant correctly.
How long does it take baby elephant to grow into an adult elephant?
Elephants reach adulthood when they are around 10 years or so old. Usually male elephants achieve full maturity and size when they are around 14 years of age. At that age, males leave the herd and go off to lead a solitary life. Females however remain with the herd.
How many giraffes in a herd?
Elephant herds usually consists of a matriarch (an adult female elephant) and a bunch of nursing mothers and other youngters and female elephants. Usually male elephants are not part of any herd. They separate from their herd and go on for themselves when they are around 5 years of age and lead a nomadic life. So, a herd may contain male elephants but they are all young ones and adult males are not part of a herd.
What is the scientific baby male and female names of farm animals?
The names for babies are not scientific but they are correct. Here is a rough list off the top of my head, others please add to this! Male: Female: Baby: Group: Horse Stallion* Mare Foal* Herd Cattle Bull Cow Calf Herd Sheep Ram Ewe Lamb Herd Pigs Boar Sow Piglet ?Herd Donkey Jack/Jackass Jenny ?Foal Herd Deer Buck Doe Fawn Herd Chicken Rooster Hen Chick Flock * - A male horse that has been castrated is called a gelding. An entire male horse is a stallion. A female horse under the age of four is a filly, and an entire male horse under the age of four is a colt.
What is a herd bull?
Typically a bull animal is a male animal although the "bull" in Bull Sharks refer to both male and female Bull Sharks.
When do you remove the male calf from the herd?
When he's old enough to be weaned, which would be around six to eight months of age.
At what age can a female leave home in Colorado?
The state's legal age of majority for both male and female is 18.
