What are elephants?
Q: What are elephants?
A: Elephants are large grey animals with big ears, long noses and white tusks. They are the largest living land mammals.
Q: What is the largest elephant ever recorded?
A: The largest elephant ever recorded was one shot in Angola in 1974. It weighed 27,060 pounds (12.25 tonnes) and stood 13 feet 8 inches (4.17 m) tall.
Q: How much does a baby elephant weigh at birth?
A: At birth, an elephant calf may weigh as much as 100 kg (225 pounds).
Q: How long does an elephant calf develop inside its mother?
A: An elephant calf develops for 20 to 22 months inside its mother, which is longer than any other land animal.
Q: How do wild elephants behave towards each other?
A: Wild elephants have strong family relationships and their ways of acting toward other elephants are hard for people to understand.
Q: How do elephants communicate with each other?
A: Elephants "talk" to each other with very low sounds, most of which people cannot hear. But elephants can hear these sounds far away.
Q: What kind of skin do elephants have?
A: Elephants have strong, leathery skin to protect themselves.
