Elephant Facts

* Elephants can perceive sound frequencies inaudible to humans. Some times they communicate each other through infrasonic waves. Large ears help them to receive a wide range of frequencies.
* Elephants always fan their ears; this action cools their body. Elephants have few sweat glands, so the fanning of the ears regulates the body temperature.
* Elephants travel a long distance in search of food
* Elephants trunkful water almost weighs 10L. He uses the trunk as a hose and pour this into the mouth.
* Elephants drink 250L of water per day
* Elephants are vegetarians
* The gestation period is 21 months
* Elephants have clean eating habits. They dust out the dirt from the eatables.
* Elephants can recognize people by their smell even after years.
* The tusk is an extension of the upper teeth
* The trunk is formed by the upper lip and the nose and is made up of 100000 muscles
* Elephants have large memory capacity
* Captive elephant population in Kerala is approximately 600;nearly 500 of these are bulls.
* Bull elephants without tusks are called 'makhans'
* Most of theelephants have 18 nails, some of them have 20
* The testes of male elephant is placed abdominally, they enlarge during musth time.
* The vulval openings of a cow elephant are between the hind legs, they mate like all other quadrepeds.
* Elephants have no gall bladder