What are facts about elephants?

Answer 1

-1)Hippo is the second largest land animal (after elephant) . It is heavier even than the white rhino, despite the fact that the white rhino is taller at the shoulder. Male hippos weigh from 3 to 5 tons. They are 4.5 meters long (nearly 15 feet) and 1.5 meter tall at the shoulder (5 feet tall).

2)Hippos can't jump!

3)A hippo can run at nearly 30km/hour (19 miles per hour), which is faster than average man.

4)Hippo skin is 3cm thick (1.2 inches) on the average! However, it can be up to 5 cm thick (2 inches) on the rear and back but just 1 cm thick (0.4 inches) on the belly.

5)Hippo eats 40-60kg of food at night. It eats mainly grass. Hippo grabs the grass and breaks it off by using its tough lips (the front teeth don't take any part in feeding). Hippos are mainly herbivorous, but on a few occasions they were seen eating meat.

6)Hippo is considered to be Africa's most dangerous animal, as it kills more people every year than any other animal of Africa (even more than the cape buffalo).

7)Hippo, if pressed, can hold its breath for up to 30 minutes while being underwater.

8)Male hippo is extremely territorial and charges straight forward against any animal that invades its territory (even against a rhino or a cape buffalo) and forces it to go away. The only animal that a male hippo is afraid to face and will run from it is the elephant. Hippos generally live harmoniously with crocodiles in the river, but sometimes a hippo may attack and kill an adult crocodile with one bite. Adult crocodiles, on the other hand, sometimes prey on hippo calves (baby hippos). Lions sometimes prey on adult hippos but they attack from behind and as a group (pride) .Two big male lions, though, are enough to kill an adult hippo, as long as the hippo doesn't manage to reach the water and sink underwater. However, one bite of the hippo can kill an adult male lion.

9)Hippo has the largest mouth of any LAND animal and the second largest mouth of any animal of the planet (after the whales). Hippo can open its mouth more than 1 meter wide (more than 3 feet wide)! When a hippo open its mouth, its giant jaws can be drawn apart as far as 150 degrees! A hippo can very easily crush a big watermelon in its mouth. The bite force of a female hippo was measured by a zoologist called Brady Barr at 1821 pounds per square inch. The bite force of a male hippo has never been measured due to its aggressiveness. The lower jaw is over sized, compared to the upper jaw, because of the enormous teeth that the lower jaw carries.

10)Hippo has enormous teeth. Its lower canines can be up to 70cm long, and weigh 4kg each. However, only 30 cm of the tooth are exposed and can be seen when a hippo opens its mouth. Hippo canines are very sharp and they are made of the hardest enamel in the world, as its hardness is 6-7 on the Mohs scale of hardness!! No other animal on the planet has such hard teeth. These lower canines are reputed to be able to deflect even a bullet! This is why the lower canines are the hippo's main weapon for fighting. Hippo uses the lower canines either to bite or as horns. Under the enamel coating, the canines are made of ivory. Hippo's incisors don't have enamel at all. They are only made of ivory. Hippo ivory is also the hardest ivory of any other animal ivory in the world (including elephant ivory, whale ivory, walrus ivory, warthog ivory, etc). Hippo's lower incisors are also used for fighting (hippos use them like horns, because they grow horizontally). Hippo's upper canines are much thinner and much shorter than hippo's lower canines, ( therefore much lighter than the lower canines). They are also less sharp than the lower canines. The enamel of the upper canines is also

less thick and softer than the enamel of the lower canines. Hippo's upper incisors grow vertically (while hippo's lower incisors grow horizontally). The upper incisors are much smaller than the lower incisors. Just like the lower incisors, the upper incisors don't have enamel at all. They are simply made of ivory. Ivory of the upper incisors is less thick and less hard than the ivory of the lower incisors. Hippo's premolars and molars (teeth located at the back of the mouth) are roughly square and their size increases towards the back of the mouth. The estimated age of a hippo can be determined from their wear. Premolars and molars are mostly used for working food rather than fighting. Premolars and molars have enamel, but not as hard and not as thick as the canines. Premolars and molars are also much smaller teeth than the front teeth (canines and incisors).

11)Hippos spend up to 18 hours a day in the water and devote their time mostly to relaxing. Like other aquatic mammals, hippo has very little hair.

12)Hippos live in groups that are known as pods or herds. The largest pods can contain up to 100 hippos. Every pod is led by a territorial male, which is the most dominant and strongest male (the other male hippos generally show submission to it, or keep a distance from it). Those hippos who don't want to live under the dominance of the territorial male keep a distance by inhabiting different sections of the river (less convenient sections, but at least they live there without being under the rule of the dominant male). The group of the hippos that have moved to a different section of the river, so as to avoid the presence of the territorial male, are known as "bachelors". The other choice for a male hippo of the pod is to try to fight it and become the new dominant, territorial male. Even female hippos are only tolerated by the dominant male as long as they act submissively. However, most of the day no fight occurs and there is peace and friendly atmosphere in the pod.

13)It was found that at least 18 species of birds use the back of the hippo either for resting or as a base for hunting fish and invertebrates.

Hippos (hippopotamus amphibius)

Length 13 ft

Height 5 ft

weight to to 3.5 tons

lifespan 50 years

habitat - rivers, swamps

Diet - herbivorous - graze on grass

Facts

third-larges living land mammal

plump and bulky body with short stumpy legs, four toes on each foot, webbed

thick skin, grayish-brown in colour, hairless

Answer 2

Elephants are the largest land mammal. There are two types of elephants, the Indian elephant, which is smaller, and the African elephant, which is larger. An adult male elephant is called a bull, and an adult female elephant is called a cow.

Asian elephants have been tamed as beasts of burden for about 4,000 years. Most elephants recruited for such work as hauling lumber are still taken from the wild, however, and this is a drain on the wild population.

Elephants' closest known relatives are dugongs and manatees, hyraxes, and aardvarks.

Elephants can swim for long distances. Elephants sleep standing up, only the young ones lie down. They weight 7,000 to 15,400.The elephant's trunk can be like an extra hand. The sad part about elephants is that they have poor hearing and eye sight. Elephants can step on watermelons to crack the shell. Elephants can be small or huge. They are the largest land mammal. Elephants have a large family. The elephant's brain is large and elephants roll in mud to keep the bugs away from biting.

Elephants have mourning behavior for dead members of their group. This entails them gathering around the body or bones of the dead one and nuzzling it with their trunks.

They have tough skin, and strong tusks. They can step on watermelons to crack the shell, and eat the watermelon. They can swim with their trunks above water, to breathe. Elephants trunks can get very heavy it is not uncommon to see them resting their trunks.

Other Facts about elephants:

• Elephants are very strong, big and heavy.
• Elephants skin is gray and wrinkled.
• Elephants roll in the mud to keep bugs and flies biting them.
• Their ears are very large. They cool themselves using their ears.
• They are the largest land mammals.
• Elephants are actually not scared of mice. That is an urban legend.
• They are self-aware, have the largest brain of any land mammal.
• Sometimes they will same-sex mount.
• They are herbivores.
• Herbivorous - spend about 16 hours eating, consuming as much as 500 pounds of food/day
• They eat around 200-300 pounds of food every day.

• They sleep standing up, only the young will lie down to sleep
• Weight - 7,000 to 15,400 pounds
• Lifespan of 60 to 70 years
• Both male and female African elephants have tusks
• Only males Asiatic species have tusks
• They can run 24 mph for short distances, normally walk about 4 mph
• They can swim for long distances
• They live in herds
• Elephants have poor hearing
• Height of 10 - 13 feet
• Eyesight is poor
• Only one mammal can't jump~ elephants!
• An elephant's tooth can weight as much as three kilograms.
• Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.
• They live till they are 60 to 70 years old.
• A fully grown African elephant can be as heavy as 5000 pounds.
• They live in a large family structure (Like humans).
• Except man, they do not have any natural predators.
• They do not have noses; they have trunks.
• They are the only land mammals besides us that can cry.
• They carry their calves for 18 months (a year and a half)
• Scientists believe they have sensors in their feet.
• They live together in herds, with an older female being the leader, and no adult males.
• They can have close bonds with humans.
• When they attack, their ears expand to make themselves look bigger.
• They have been known to attack and kill humans.

They have tough skin, and strong tusks. They can step on watermelons to crack the shell, and eat the watermelon. They can swim with their trunks above water, to breathe.

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* They are the largest land mammals * They live till they are 60 to 70 years old * A fully grown African elephant can be as heavy as 5000 pounds * They live in a large family structure (Like humans) * Except man, they do not have any natural predators * They eat around 200-300 pounds of food every day * etc...

Answer 3

Well first off, hippos are the most dangerous animal in all of Africa. They are so territorial that if you get too close to them in the wild they will charge at you without mercy. They kill the most people in Africa out of any other animal, but that does not include insects, like the mosquito.

Answer 4

Elephants are the only land animals besides humans that can cry. They also mourn their dead and can tell if the body is a relative of theirs. They actually put leaves over it and caress it with their trunks, it's a little scary. African elephants were used by Carthage in their unsuccessful wars against Rome. Also, they love to eat watermelons. With just a flick of a toe the watermelon is sliced in two. As of now, African elephants are being killed because of 'overpopulation'. This is not the case, because they are now endangered. They just live in large herds and people think that there is overcrowding because of this.

Answer 5

for example hippos live under water and come at night in to feed their calves(children)

Answer 6

They are one of the most aggresive mammals in the world.

Answer 7

I would include that hippopotamus is a disturbing creature