Amazing Facts About Elephant!

Elephants can exchange information through their highly sensitive feet. The foot stomps of elephants resonate at a frequency other elephants can detect through the ground. Elephants exchange information by emitting low-frequency sounds that travel dozens of miles under the ground. Elephants have a brain that weights five kilograms. They have a total of 300 billion neurons. On average, an elephant’s brain is three times larger than a human’s brain. Elephants are the world’s largest land mammals and the most intelligent aside from the great apes (humans, gorillas and orangutans etc). Elephants have amazing long-term memories. Elephants remember other individuals and are able to recognize them when they meet them again, even several years later. Elephants are emotional creatures. Elephants get emotional when they knowledge someone dying. They become silent and take time to mourn the dead elephant. Elephants are a matriarchal society; An elephant family is guided by the oldest and largest female of the herd. Elephants have record long pregnancies. An elephants have a gestation period of 22 months. Newborns baby elephants weigh around 100 kg on average. An adult needs to eat up to 150kg of food a day – that’s 50 tonnes a year. Elephants produce a lot of methane gas as a by-product of digestion. Researchers estimate that the amount of methane they emit in one day would be enough to power a car for 32km.