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  2. Discover Fascinating Facts About Elephants: The World’s ...

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    Here’s what makes an elephant a mammal, including some facts you may not know about them. Elephants Give Live Birth to Their Young. It takes an elephant 22 months to give birth.

  3. Elephant - Wikipedia

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    The brain of an elephant weighs 4.5–5.5 kg (10–12 lb) compared to 1.6 kg (4 lb) for a human brain. [79] It is the largest of all terrestrial mammals. [80] While the elephant brain is larger overall, it is proportionally smaller than the human brain. At birth, an elephant's brain already weighs 30–40% of its adult weight.

  4. African elephant - Wikipedia

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    Elephants have four molars; each weighs about 5 kg (11 lb) and measures about 30 cm (12 in) long. As the front pair wears down and drops out in pieces, the back pair moves forward, and two new molars emerge in the back of the mouth. Elephants replace their teeth four to six times in their lifetimes.

  5. African forest elephant - Wikipedia

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    It is the smallest of the three living elephant species, reaching a shoulder height of 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in). As with other African elephants, both sexes have straight, down-pointing tusks, which begin to grow once the animals reach 1–3 years old. The forest elephant lives in highly sociable family groups of up to 20 individuals.

  6. Today is Elephant Appreciation Day — here are 18 surprising ...

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    You might be surprised to learn that elephants are pregnant for 22 months, and that they have eyelashes that are 5 inches long. Today is Elephant Appreciation Day — here are 18 surprising facts ...

  7. Elephant Trunks: A Unique Adaptation for Feeding, Sensing ...

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    Due to this fascination, elephants can be found everywhere in popular media, children’s books, and of course, zoos! Another reason Elephant Trunks: A Unique Adaptation for Feeding, Sensing, and ...

  8. Elephantidae - Wikipedia

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    Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths. These are large terrestrial mammals with a snout modified into a trunk and teeth modified into tusks. Most genera and species in the family are extinct. Only two genera, Loxodonta (African elephants) and Elephas (Asian elephants), are ...

  9. Elephant communication - Wikipedia

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    For Asian elephants, these calls have a frequency of 14–24 Hz, with sound pressure levels of 85–90 dB and last 10–15 seconds. [15] For African elephants, calls range from 15 to 35 Hz with sound pressure levels as high as 117 dB, allowing communication for many kilometres, with a possible maximum range of around 10 km (6 mi).