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because the area of their feet, that touches the ground, is large and so the pressure the elephant makes onto the surface of the ground is small. They will sink if the ground is not hard enough, but on average they have no problems with sinking into the ground
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How far can an elephant swim?
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well i have discovered that an elephant masturbates three times a day with its trunk while swimming with E.T and now getting back to the subject.... in my latest research i have discovered that if we throw an elephant out of the plane we had used it would land on the cloud but unfortunately for the elephant he walked off the cloud and splatted on the ground and we got to the ground and it was brutal as its guts where laying in a very uncomfortable spot .
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