Elephants are the largest land animals in the world.
The largest elephant on record was an adult male African elephant. It weighed about 24,000 pounds and was 13 feet tall at the shoulder!
Elephants can live to be over 70 years old.
Only one mammal can’t jump — the elephant.
The average weight for an elephant heart is about 27 to 46 pounds!
Elephants have a highly developed brain and the largest of all the land mammals. The brain is 3 or 4 times larger than that of humans although smaller as a proportion of body weight.
Elephants have a slow pulse rate of 27. For a canary it is 1000!
An elephant’s skin is an inch thick.
Elephants have poor eyesight but an amazing sense of smell.
At the age of 16, an elephant can reproduce, but rarely has more than four children throughout her lifetime. At birth, an elephant calf weighs about 230 lbs!
Elephants have the longest pregnancy of all the animals. It takes a female 22 months from conception to give birth.
Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.