The living habits of elephants

We all know that elephants have long noses and sharp teeth. Besides these, do you know any other characteristics and habits of elephants? The following editor will give you a detailed introduction.

First, the characteristics of elephants

Their main external features are flexible and muscular long noses, large ears and pointed teeth, have the function of winding, and are powerful tools such as self-defense and feeding.

Asian elephants have shoulders between 3.7 and 4.1 meters high. It weighs 3 to 5 tons, the African elephant has a shoulder height of 4.3 to 4.5 meters and weighs 5.5 to 8 tons, and the African forest elephant has an average shoulder height of no more than 2.7 meters and a weight of 3.5 tons. The elephant's head is big, its ears are as big as a fan, its limbs are as thick as a column to support a huge body, the knee joint cannot flexion freely, and the length of its trunk is almost equal to its body length, showing a cylindrical shape and flexion freely; its trunk is all composed of muscles, with nostrils opening at the end and finger-like protuberances at the tip of its nose, which can pick up objects as small as 1 ton or peanuts.

Second, the living habits of elephants

The elephant, which mainly lives in the savanna and savanna, is the largest living gregarious mammal in the world, led by a female elephant. To tender leaves, wild fruits, weeds, wild vegetables, tender bamboo and other plants as food, food intake is very large, daily food intake of more than 250 kg. The life span is about 80 years.

Ivory has always been used as a valuable carving material, which is expensive, so the elephant has been caught indiscriminately, and the number has dropped sharply. It has been listed as an endangered species of wild animals and plants, so we should not kill elephants for profit.