How do elephants sleep?

Elephants are gregarious animals, with the family as the unit, with the female as the leader. The time of daily activity, the route of action, the place of foraging, and the place of habitat are all under the command of the female elephant, while the adult male elephant is only responsible for protecting the safety of the family. Sometimes several elephants gather together to form a large herd of hundreds of elephants. Let's take a look at how elephants sleep.

How do elephants sleep?

At present, there are only three kinds of elephants left on the earth: Asian elephant, African prairie elephant and African forest elephant, with different sleeping positions. African elephants like to sleep standing against walls, trees, etc. Asian elephants are going to sleep lying down. they slowly lie on their sides, stretch out their legs, and soon fall asleep. If they find Asian elephants sleeping standing up, they are sick.

What kind of food do elephants eat?

Elephants feed on tender leaves, wild fruits, weeds, wild vegetables, tender bamboos and other plants. Pure vegetarians, veritable Hercules and giants in the land animal kingdom, have long noses and tusks as weapons, so they do not have any natural enemies except humans in nature, and cannot see at night, so they are easy to be attacked by lions at night.

The social habits of elephants

1. Communication: elephants can communicate with infrasonic waves that cannot be heard by human beings. In the absence of interference, elephants can generally spread 11 kilometers. If they encounter uneven media caused by airflow, they can only spread 4 kilometers. If they have to communicate in this case, the elephants will stomp together to produce a powerful "booming" sound. This method can spread as far as 32 kilometers. How does the elephant in the distance hear that? You can't put your ear to the ground, can you? In fact, elephants use bones to conduct sound waves. When sound waves arrive, they travel along the soles of their feet through bones to the inner ear, and the fat on the elephant's face can be used to amplify sound. Zoologists call this fat loudspeaker fat, and many undersea animals also have this kind of fat.

2. Sensibility: elephants have long been considered sensual animals whether in Africa or Asia. They help babies trapped in mud, use their noses to pull injured or dying elephants to safety, and even give each other a gentle touch with their noses to comfort other individuals in pain. But it is another matter to witness elephants with similar comforting behavior, and now some people have proved that elephants have such abilities. Research by scientists has shown that Asian elephants feel frustrated when they see others in trouble, when they reach out to comfort each other-just as humans comfort others when they see others suffering.

3. IQ: elephants have a very high level of self-awareness. When they encounter bumblebees, they will use the unique low-frequency rumble to inform their companions of the presence of such winged animals nearby. According to the acoustic analysis of the unique sounds emitted by elephants, elephants can use these sounds to warn other companions of the potential threat of bumblebees and remind them to avoid.