What is the function of an elephant's tail? What kind of food do you usually eat?

Elephant is a kind of creature with a sense of history, and it is also a first-class protected animal in our country. Although the elephant is big and has a long nose, it gives people the feeling that it is cute and cute, and its IQ is also very high. It can learn a lot of human movements and knowledge. Now many Southeast Asian countries will domesticate elephants to perform, this practice is very cruel, causing serious harm to their physiology and psychology, we should protect them. Let's take a look at the role of an elephant's tail. What kind of food do you usually eat?

What is the function of an elephant's tail?

Elephant body odor is heavy, it is easy to attract mosquito bites, elephant tail like a brush, swinging left and right can effectively harass its mosquitoes. In addition, the elephant's tail can also play a role in maintaining body balance.

Second, what kind of food do elephants usually eat?

Elephants mainly eat grass and leaves, but also eat some tree trunks, bark, soil rich in mineral salt, stones and so on according to their own needs. It is rare to see elephants eat meat, but elephants like to eat fruit. In zoos, elephants eat coconuts, cantaloupes, bananas and so on.

Introduction to the living habits and classification of elephants

Elephants are gregarious animals, usually female elephants as leaders, mainly planning daily action routes, activity times, feeding places, habitat, and so on. The adult male elephant is to protect the safety of the family, guard the family.

Traffic between elephants is through infrasound, an inaudible sound wave that can travel more than ten kilometers without interference.

Elephants are mainly distributed in the tropics and subtropics of sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia as well as the southern border of China, such as Thailand, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Yunnan Province of China and so on.

The main categories of elephants are Asian elephant, African elephant and common African elephant.

Asian elephants feed on weeds, leaves, bamboo leaves, wild fruits, and so on. They live in tropical jungles and grasslands. Their sense of smell and hearing are very sensitive, and their indicators are not fixed. They are an endangered species. At present, there are only more than 300 of them left in our country. Asian elephants are smarter and more docile, and they are easier to tame, but it is wrong to tame them to perform.

The African elephant exists in the tropical forests and grasslands of Africa and is the largest terrestrial mammal that exists today, feeding on weeds, leaves, bark, twigs and so on.

The common African elephant is the prairie elephant, which is mainly distributed on the African continent, mainly eats grass and spends a lot of time looking for food every day, but only part of the food can be absorbed. The ordinary African elephant is large in size and gray in color. It lives alone, is irritable, and goes into a state of madness when stimulated, attacking anything, very ferocious.