Elephants

Elephant calves can walk within hours of being born. They are not like humans to wait for a year or so before walking. Most elephant calves can start walking around 2 hours after they are born.

Tobacco and Chili. Farmers in Africa are mixing the two to keep them away from eating/ruining their crops.

Elephants will knock down trees to get the better foliage on top. This also helps smaller animals get more food. Elephants will also strip bark from trees to eat it, sharpen their tusks, or to cut back the foliage. Elephants dig to find water in the dry season which will then make small watering holes to help other animals get water. So, by them destroying their environment they're actually helping other organisms.

Baby Elephants are one of the largest and heavies babies at birth. At birth, they weigh approximately 250 pounds and can stand at around 2.5 feet tall. Elephant calves feed exclusively on their mother's milk for the first few months and grow rapidly in both size and weight. They slowly move on to solid diet like grass and fruits after a few months of age. At the end of a year or so, they weigh over a 1000 pounds.

Elephants are like humans. They have a long life expectancy like humans. Elephants in the wild are known to live an average of 50 to 70 years. Some domesticated elephants have known to live upto the age of 80 years too. They probably live the longest among all mammals (excluding humans).

The trunk up is supposed to be good luck! Some believe that when the trunk is up it is good luck and when it is down its bad luck but even if the trunk goes down but tips up at the end its still bad luck

An African elephant weighs 5 to 6 tons. One ton is 2,000 lbs, so they weight 10,000 to 12,000 lbs. Each pound is 16 ounces, so an African elephant weighs 160,000 to 192,000 oz.

Dude. Surprising name but it actually refers to an infected hair on an elephant. Dude usually stands for an infected hair around the anal or pubic area.

Elephants can get themselves drunk. There is a major problem in parts of Asia with elephants who break into store rooms and get into stocks of beer, then get drunk and go on a rampage. An 8-ton drunken elephant can create a lot of damage. It is not unknown for people to be killed.

I read about them in a book when I was about 5 years old.

Scientists know about them because of bones and frozen carcasses that have been found. The frozen carcasses are from the tundra in Alaska or Russia, and the bones can come from anywhere where woolly mammoths lived in Russia, northern Europe, and Alaska.

There are specially made boats that transport animals around the world. They are very unquie and rather large

Yes. Elephants are hunted mainly for their tusks, called ivory. Ivory is made into silverware handles, jewelry, and other household extravagances. It is wrong and many African countries are passing acts making it illegal to hunt elephants. Hey, retailers who buy ivory: News! There is actually a type of fruit pit with the same texture and color as ivory! It is very easy to find and actually is easier to carve! So stop the slaughter of elephants and get this instead!

No. Elephants are herbivores, meaning that they eat only plants.

Yes, an adult ostrich is larger than an adult peacock.

welll it all depends on the habitat but at least 40 to 50

No. That would be impossibly huge.

The average weight of a full grown Asian elephant is 3 tons. The average weight of a full grown African forest elephant is 3 tons. The average weight of an African bush elephant is 6-1/2 tons.

There is no such thing as a male cow. A cow is a mature female bovine that had had a calf, and a bull is an intact male bovine. So the young offspring of a bull and cow is a calf.

No. An elephant has thick hide that can protect itself from teeth and claws. Also, the elephant would crush the bear with its foot.

The cross-section of proboscidean tusks reveal natural grain lines, called "Schreger lines." The angle at which these lines meet each other can be measured - if it is an angle less than 90 degrees, it is a fossil mammoth tusk. If the lines meet in more than 100 degrees, then it is an elephant tusk.

Elephants are a type of large mammal in the Elephantidae family. There are two different primary branches of elephants, including the African elephant, and the Asian elephant. Elephants can be found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, as well as Southeast and South Asia. The male elephant can grow as large as 13 feet tall and weigh in at 15,000 pounds. Additionally, the male elephant can grow large incisors known as tusks that not only make for a spectacle, but have put them on the list of top poatched animals as hunters seek the beautiful ivory that makes up these large tusks.

There is some resemblance, although it is far from exact.

Every person has their own sensibility and view of what their value and tradition system is.

one is hairy and extinct and the other ones an elephant

It's not "who" it's "what" and the answer is "EVOLUTION"

-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