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Elephants are the largest land mammal which are found in the region of Asia and Africa. They have pillar like legs which supports their giant upper body, have huge heads, short but broad padded feets. Elephants have a large thick flexible trunk which is used for drinking water and help them to lift something. 
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# Diet
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Elephants are herbivores animal so they love to eat grasses, shoots, bamboos, leaves, roots, wheat, sugarcane, and they like to eat fruits like papaya, mango, banana. 

A fully grown up elephant eat upto 450 lbs of food per day and can consume upto 190 litres of water a day. 
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# Where you can find them
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There are different species of Elephant which lives in different climatic conditions. 

African Savannah Elephants are found in savannah zones which is in sahara desert. 
Asian elephants can be seen in Sri lanka, India, Bangladesh and China. 
African forest elephants lives in a dense rainforests of west africa. 
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# Mating and Reproduction 
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Female elephants are usually ready to mate in monsoon season and the gestation period is about 21 months to 22 months. During this cycle the male elephant becomes aggressive to make himself as dominant.  Female elephant give birth to a calf who weighs about 220 lbs to 240 lbs. 
The life span of an adult male elephant  is approximately 70 years and an adult female elephant life span is quiet less as compare to male which is 60-65 years. 
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# Behaviour 
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Elephants form strong bonds with each other and live in a composed maternal family groups of females called a herd. Elephants groom themselves in a joint family which consists of 10-90 elephants. 

Usually the male elephant leave their unit between the ages of 12-15 to make his own territory and to live alone in search of female elephant who is ready to mate.
The herd is led by the oldest female elephant of that family. 

As compare to other animals brain of elephants are extremely sharp and weighs upto 5 kg. They have the power to remember everything very easily. Elephants are very calm until they feel like they're safe and play with each other. 
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# Size
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An adult African male elephant is the largest amongst all. They can reach upto a height of 4m which is 13 feet tall and weighs upto 7,000 kg. Their tusks are more than 10 feet long. 
Whereas, Asian elephant reaches about 8.5-9 feet and weighs upto 3100 kg. An Asian bull elephant tusk is about 6 feet long. 
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# How they interacte
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Like other animals do they communicate by touch, smell, sound and sight but they have one more power to communicate with each other.
Elephant uses infrasound over long distances because of their large ears. They are capable of hearing any type of sound which is far away from them. 
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# Threat
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All animals have some kind of threat so do elephants have. The major threat that elephants have is when they have ivory teeth developed in their body. The traders hunt elephants to get these ivory teeths. 

Ivory teeths has a big demand in international markets.huge amount is being paid to get these ivory teeth.another threat is elephants travel a lot in search of food.and sometimes they come out of their jungles in search of food. Humans feel uncomfortable and sometimes they even get threatened by elephants.
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