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After peeling, the fruits are then cooked in water until the maroon-colored flesh separates from the hard inner nuts. The pulp is eaten, and the nuts are saved to be roasted later. Alternatively, nuts are collected from elephant dung; the hard nuts survive intact through the digestive process after the elephant has consumed and digested them. [5]
Although most female Asian elephants don’t grow significant tusks, all Asian elephants are still at risk from poachers. ... into a smaller area and the need to find food, elephants will ...
The African elephants have two finger-like extensions at the tip of the trunk that allow them to pluck small food. The Asian elephant has only one and relies more on wrapping around a food item. [33] Asian elephant trunks have better motor coordination. [45] Asian elephant drinking water with trunk
Wild banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) regularly use anvils to open food items with a hard shell such as rhinoceros beetles, bird eggs, snail shells or pupating dung beetles. They use a range of anvils commonly including rocks and the stems of trees, but will also use the side-walls of gullys and even dried elephant dung.
Video footage shows an elephant at the Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary, Kaavan, trying unsuccessfully to hide his breakfast from an approaching elephant.
For Jade, an elephant at the St. Louis Zoo, pregnancy means staying in shape and participating in a variety of prenatal exercises meant to make her gestation and childbirth easier and safer for ...
The elephant foot yam is used as food in Island Southeast Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia, New Guinea, Oceania, and Madagascar. Its origin and center of domestication was formerly considered to be India, where it is most widely utilized as a food resource. But a genetic study in 2017 has shown that Indian populations of elephant foot ...
Gardening pros lay out a complete guide to caring for tropical elephant ear plants indoors, from soil and watering to issues like yellow elephant ear leaves.