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Do elephants have tusks?
Yes and no. Both genders of the African elephants have tusks but the female Asian elephant does not have tusks, unlike the male Asian elephant.
What are the feeding habits of elephants?
Elephants are herbivores, meaning they primarily eat plants such as grasses, leaves, twigs, fruits, and bark. They have a diet that is high in fiber and can consume large quantities of food each day, sometimes up to 300 pounds. Elephants are known to forage for food for most of the day, using their trunks to grasp and bring vegetation to their mouths.
What do baby elephants feed on?
Baby elephants primarily feed on their mother's milk for the first few months of life. As they begin to wean, they start consuming grass, leaves, fruit, and other vegetation like adult elephants. They learn from their mother and other members of the herd on where to find food sources and how to forage.
Do elephants drink out of their nose?
Elephants are known to use their trunk to suck up water and then spray it into their mouths to drink. They don't actually drink through their nose, but their trunk acts as a versatile tool for various activities, including drinking, bathing, and communication.
What things elephants cannot do with their trunks?
Elephants can't ride to a airplane..but all can do that even a monkey or other animals...
How do elephants drink water?
Elephants have long trunks that they use to drink with, not there mouths!
How elephants eat facts?
With their trunks and their mouths
Why can elephants eat trees?
Because they have big mouths. :D
How eats elephant?
Elephants eat with there TRUNK
What are the organs of ingestion in elephant?
Elephants use their trunks to put food into their mouths.
How do elephant's drink?
Elephants draw the water up into their trunks and then squirt the water from their trunks into their mouth.
Why don't elephants drink through their mouths?
Their mouths can't reach the water source easily because it is difficult for them to sit and stand quickly, rendering them vulnerable to attacks, so they have evolved to use their trunks.
How do elephants store their food?
Elephants use their mouths, teeth, and tongues to eat food and drink water. They use their trunks to breathe. It's the elephant equivalent of the human nose.Adult elephants may eat an estmated 170-200 kilograms/77-91 pounds of food. In order to meet these requirements, they may draw on other body parts for help. For example, elephants are able to use their trunks to catch prey.An elephant's water requirements may range from 80-200 liters/72-180 quarts per day. They can't meet their water needs through their mouths. What they do instead is take water in temporarily, for spraying into their mouths for drink or onto their bodies for bathing.
Why do elephants flap their ears so much?
The reason why dogs and birds pant through their mouths and elephants flap their large ears, is to control (reduce) their temperature. Some animals can sweat through their skins and cool themselves as this sweat evaporates from their skin. However, dogs, birds and elephants (and perhaps some other animals) can not sweat so they either evaporate water in their mouths or pump blood into their 'radiator' sized ears to cool themselves.
Can elephants catch colds?
elephants do get sick sometimes, like people. If an older elephant or a baby is lagging behind, the others circle it and urge it along to help keep it warm and support it until it is well again. Adult elephants have been seen crushing food in their mouths and allowing young or ailing elephants to remove the food. The food is then collected and chewed.
What really are tusks?
Tusks really are teeth. They're sharp, long, and curved. They stick out beyond the mouths of such animals that have them: elephants, narwhals, walruses, and wild boars.
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.
