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AFRICAN ELEPHANTS

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cool facts about elephants:
The elephant is the largest of all land mammals
Life Span - elephants can live for up to 70 years
Elephants normally walk about 4 mph
Elephants are able to swim for long distances
Elephants spend about 16 hours a day eating
They consume as much as 495 pounds of food per day
They live in tight social units led by an older matriarch
Males leave the herd between the ages of 12 and 15
Their tusks are of ivory and are actually enormously enlarged incisors
The elephant's eyes are small and its eyesight is poor
They have the largest brains in the animal kingdom

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Posted by marijaqlat on 03/30/10 at 07:14 PM

+1 and one more interesting fact.. elephants as we know them today have evolved from their ancestors who were much smaller, they were similar size as a swan is today, lets say