#allaboutelephants

- Rituals: Elephants use their tusks - as their names suggest - for self-defense, but also for digging for salt and roots, debarking trees, and cutting paths in the brush. If you look closely, you will see that one tusk is used more because the elephant always prefers one over the other. Because among the elephants there are also right-handers and left-handers. - Lucky charms: Whether it's weddings, final exams, drawing up contracts, or enrolling children in school: Hindus pray and make offerings to the elephant-headed god Ganesha, to attract luck and success. In some Asian countries, albino elephants are considered sacred. - Gourmets: they like to eat grass, spices, tree leaves, fruits, bark, marrow, and vines. - Trunk: We couldn't breathe underwater using a snorkel the length of an elephant's trunk, because of the high pressure. Elephants, on the other hand, have such stable lungs that they can inhale air from the surface of the water with their trunks up to 1.50 m long. This physical characteristic allows them to take long walks under the surface of the water. - Landscape gardeners: Elephants are frequent travelers, carrying the seeds of plants they have eaten with them and expelling them in a wide radius at the rdone. Thus, they participate in the creation of new flora. Moreover, their manure is so rich in nutrients that many other species can feed on it. - Animal Guardians: By digging for water with their big paws, elephants also discover water which is essential for the survival of other animals. An elephant's footprint sunk into the ground and filled with water thus leaving a "miniature biotope" behind. - Thick Skin: Although elephant skin is very thick on many parts of the body, it is still very sensitive. After bathing, elephants use their trunks to blow sand and mud onto their wet skin to provide natural protection against sunburn and insects. - Sentient Beings: Elephants can communicate and maintain contact with their peers over long distances by picking up seismic communication signals through their feet. - Close-knit family: their herds (composed of several groups) are sometimes made up of more than 100 congeners in Africa and about 50 to 70 in Asia. They are led by an experienced female elephant, often particularly large and strong. In the elephant herd, we take care of each other, and social cohesion is extremely important. When male elephants become independent (for male Asian elephants around 10-15 years old and for male African ones around 8-19 years old), they leave the herd and form male roommates. Nevertheless, they continue to see their family members and their contacts remain friendly. see also: Barn Owls Facts, Everything You Need Know About Barn Owls - Huge memory: Elephants have such developed brains that they experience a variety of emotions, similar to ours. They are extremely sociable and feel compassion, comfort each other and even mourn their dead. They are also rightly known for their good.... Read the full article