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Where does elephant grass grow?

in africa


How does a baby elephants appearance change as it grows?

Baby elephants are born with the same physical characteristics of adult elephants. As far as appearance goes, their trunks and ears grow larger, their bodies grow taller, and they gain weight. Male elephants grow tusks as they mature.


Does an elephant's tusks grow bigger as the elephant grows?

The heaviest recorded modern day elephant was an African elephant which weighed 12 tons. It was a bull elephant shot dead in Angola, in 1974. Asian elephants are huge, but are generally smaller than the African savanna species. Asian elephants grow up to 21 feet long, stand up to ten feet tall, and weigh up to 11,000 pounds. Females reach about eight and a half feet tall and weigh less than males.


Height of a baby African elephant?

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.


What is the name of the horns on a elephant?

Elephants don't have horns. You may have it confused with their beautiful white tusks that both males and females grow. If so, then they are known as tusks. They are actually teeth that grow out of the side of an elephant's mouth; and, in a perfect world, they never stop growing over an elephant's lifetime.