Elephants

A typical female elephant will give birth to around 7 elephant calves during her lifespan. The gestation period for an elephant is nearly two years, and and elephant will typically give birth every 3-6 years.

Grey seals are one of the rarest seal species in the world and about two thirds of the entire population lives in British and Irish waters. They have a distinctive horse-like face with a long muzzle, large appealing eyes and long whiskers. Their streamlined body and flippers enable them to move easily through the water. Their fur is not a uniform grey colour, but can vary from light to dark speckled grey and even black. Seal pups however, are born with pure white fur, and stay on land for two to three weeks until they moult. http://www.ptes.org/index.php?page=154

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People used to hunt elephants so that they could get their tusks. Ivory was used to make beautiful jewelry and statues.

Yes, because a patella is another word for a kneecap. An elephant has four legs, and each leg has a knee. Elephants stomp when they walk, and sleep standing up.

No.

The duration of The Elephant in the Living Room is 1.6 hours.

The short answer is 10 octaves.

A human with normal hearing (it declines with age) can hear frequencies ranging from 20 to 20,000 hertz. Octaves increase as frequencies double. So for instance is you started at 6,000 Hz, the next octave up would be 12,000 Hz. It takes ten times to double the frequency starting at 20 Hz to get to 20,480 Hz (20,40,80,160, etc.), which is about the highest a normal ear can perceive. Therefore a normal person's hearing spans 10 octaves.

The rhino would win because it has a sharp weapon to stab the elephant with, of course!!!

Female elephants social life revolves around breeding and raising of calves. A female will usually be sexually mature at around the age of thirteen.

After a gestation period of twenty-two-month, the mother gives birth to a calf that weighs about 115 kg and stands over 75 cm tall

The new born is usually the center of attention for the whole herd. The baby is born nearly blind and at first relies almost completely on its trunk to discover the world around it. The whole herd helps defend and raise the young one.

Unlike Asian Elephants they have tusks and are much bigger.

Elephants contain valuable parts such as ivory, large bones and meat. Poachers will hunt and kill elephant after elephant just to obtain these precious valuables to sell or to own. Poachers do not care that they are ruthlessly killing a beautiful species, they only seem to care about the price of money they get for the trophies that they have collected from their murders. It is illegal to poach elephants so ivory, bones and meat is usually sold on the black market. Another reason is that elephants also have dental problems because throughout their life, an elephant's teeth will wear out and then they grow new ones. But when their teeth finally wear out for good, they can no longer eat food that they require and they die of starvation. Also, a female elephant will be pregnant for two years before they actually give birth.

Yes, because elephants are able to get up from lying down if they fall down, and are also able to sit down and get up.

What an elephant uniquely cannot do is jump up. They can jump down, or fall, but not leap into the air.

An Elephant has a Lifespan very similar to Humans in the wild, their average is about 50-60 years but they sometimes make it to their 70:s

80 year old Elephants have been spotted however they are very rare

Elephant's tongues are wide and pink. Elephants also like their tongues being rubbed.

Yes. Years ago I went to a tug of war contest at a circus. It was a radio promotional. I was dumb enough to get inside the loop at the end of the rope. They requested there be 400 men to pull the elephant. Well there wasn't, instead about 40 men and 150 woman and children showed up. Since I was at the end of the rope I could move around from side to side and see the elephant, and its trainer. Well I really had never put any thought into just how strong a elephant was, but I certanly shoud have. the trainer would spank the elephant on the rear to make it go forward to make us think that we were pulling it. Then he would go around to the front of the animal and spank it in the nose to make it walk backwards. Well to make a long story short, the elephant got tired of this and went out of control. It turned around and bolted off at top speed. Like I said earlier I was in the loop at the end of the rope, I went sailing through the air and through the crowd hurting many people including children. I will never foget that. So my answer to your question is this, YES ELEPANTS CAN WALK BACKWARDS.

Elephants are classified as herbivores, which means that they eat vegetables, fruit and nuts but absolutely no meat. Young elephants must learn how to draw water up their trunks and pour it into their mouths.

In the wild when male elephants are ready to mate, they find a herd of females, and fight with other males for the right to mate. Once the winner is declared, the mating begins; the male elephant mounts the female, and puts his penis into her vigina.

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they have a great memory. this has been proven by when a member of the herd died years ago and the elephants come across the skeleton they will grieve over the skeleton because they remember who that elephant was.

Depending on its age, up to around five tons (10,000 pounds). Asian elephants generally weigh somewhat less than their African counterparts.

== == The female elephant is smaller, her tusks are smaller. The male grows much bigger.

"Elephants and ivory are powerful ingredients in any contemporary debate about conservation", taking from www.ourplanet.com. This website should give you a good answer for your interesting question. Have a great day!

The elephant has almost all body parts that humans have. A head, shoulder, legs, brain, kidney, stomach, intestines, lungs, reproductive organs, mammary glands etc. the organs an elephant has that humans don't are:

a. Trunks

b. Tusks

c. Ears - Though we have ears our ears are not as big as the elephants

d. Tail

The best known sound of an elephant is called a "trumpet." Trumpeting is done during times of excitement, aggression, or distress. It can be used as a warning or caution.

The onomatopoeia spelling is rarely used, the versions "prrumph," "ahrunngh," and "hrrannhhh" being interchangeable for other animals, depending on the tone.

Elephants also roar, squeal, bellow, and rumble. These sounds can signify injury, be threatening, or tell another elephant they are in the mood for some loving.

Some elephant sounds are infrasonic and can be heard by other elephants for up to six miles.

It is believed that elephant's have a large vocabulary all of their own.