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Are elephants big?

Yes, elephants are very big mammals. They are the largest land animals on Earth, with African elephants being larger than Asian elephants. They can weigh several tons and reach heights of over 10 feet at the shoulder.


How long do the elephants stay with there family units for?

very protective of their family against predators...hunting animals and humans. They are known to be in groups ....herds. Should an elephant become distressed it shortens their life expectancy and can affect breeding.


How long do elephants live on average?

Elephants are like humans. Their average life expentancy is around 50 - 70 years. Elephants in captivity are known to live longer than the ones in wild. The oldest known elephant was known to have lived to be 82 years old.


Why are tusk less elephants becoming more likely to reproduce than the ones with tusks?

Poachers have decimated the elephant populations where elephants have large tusks. They kills elephants for their tusks, which is known as ivory. The ivory trade is illegal except in countries like China. As elephants with big tusks are killed off by poachers, only elephants with small tusks or no tusks at all at left to mate and have offspring.


How smart are elephants?

Elephants are highly intelligent animals, known for their problem-solving skills, memory, and ability to cooperate with other elephants. They have a complex social structure and can show empathy and mourn their dead. They also display self-awareness, a sign of high intelligence.

Related Questions

Do African elephants have trunks?

Yes they do, and very big ones for that matter.


How do the afircan ellephants look?

a regular elephant but bigger----------------------There are two types of African elephants--the Bush and the Forest. In comparison with the Bush elephant the Forest elephant has a longer and narrower mandible, rounder ears, a different number of toenails, straighter and downward tusks, and considerably smaller size.


Who leave more surviving offspring elephants or rabbits?

elephants of course as long as they are polish ones from Iraq


Why do elephants have long ivory tusks?

iron ones would rust


Where do you get trunks for camp?

everythingsummercamp.com has good ones!


You have long push rods and short push rods which ones go where?

long ones are exhaust


Are long-distance harder than short ones?

In general, yes.


Is a leopard the native animal of Africa?

yes they are but there are other ones like elephants and bull dogs yes they are but there are other ones like elephants and bull dogs


What are the different breeds of chihuahua?

There are long ones, skinny ones, short ones, fat ones, tall ones, ones with blue hair and some that do the cha cha cha.


What characteristics do elahants and mammoths have?

Elephants and mammoths share too many traits to list them all, but here are a few unique ones that they share:They both have trunks and tusks.They are both large and herbivorous.They have heavy bodies and thick, strong legs.They live(d) in herds.


Do elephants have dude?

yes very large ones


Is hideous an anapest?

No. An anapest has two short syllables followed by one long sylable. Hideous has a long first syllable followed by two short ones.