What do you know about elephants in the animal encyclopedia?

The most important feature of elephants is that they have a very long trunk. Usually, the amount of water stored in the main item is basically in the nose. Elephants are animals with a relatively gentle personality.

Elephants are so intelligent that they can learn to draw with humans, and their brains are larger than most animals on the planet. Secondly, the pattern of the elephant's skin is different, just like our human fingerprints. Then there is the fact that the elephant has many muscles on its trunk, and its trunk is very flexible.

Elephants live a long lifespan, reaching 70 years. Very intelligent, a good helper of human beings, very emotional, widely distributed, mature in their teens, pregnant up to 22 months.

1. There are two main types of elephants on the earth, among which the African elephant is larger than the Asian elephant.

2. The African elephant is not only the largest land mammal on Earth, but also the mammal with the longest gestation period, about 660 days.

3. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.

4. Elephants sleep an average of only four hours a night, but spend 16 hours eating.

5. An elephant excretes about thirty-six kilograms of feces per day, which is equivalent to half the weight of an adult male.

6. Elephants can communicate with each other using infrasound waves that humans cannot hear.

7. Elephants have about three times the sense of smell than hunting dogs, and they can detect water sources up to 20 kilometers away.

8. The suction power of the elephant's trunk is huge, and the instantaneous flow rate when absorbing water is equivalent to turning on 25 shower heads at the same time.

9. Elephants need to be bathed frequently, this is because they have less hair and are prone to disease, and bathing plays a cleaning role.

10. They don't have sweat glands and need to be cooled down by bathing, and elephants will smear mud on their bodies. As a natural UV sunscreen, mud also protects against insect bites.

11. The thickness of elephant skin is about centimeters, which is equivalent to the thickness of three smartphones superimposed.

12. The depth of wrinkles of elephants can reach five to 15 cm, on the one hand, wrinkles can lock in part of the moisture and mud, and on the other hand, they can increase the evaporation area under the scorching sun to keep the body cool.

13. Elephants are not afraid of mice, but they are afraid of ants and bees because the nerve endings covered with the epidermis make their ** very sensitive.

14. Elephants have a good memory and a high IQ, and are one of the few animals that can express a variety of emotions.

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The elephant is a mammal, belonging to, there are only one family, two genera and three species, namely the elephant family, the African elephant genus and the genus Loxodonto, there are two kinds of African elephants: the common African elephant (also called the savannah elephant or shrub elephant) and the African forest elephant, the elephant genus has only one species of elephant (also called the Indian elephant).

According to historical records, elephants became friends early on and were able to help humans. Elephants are very clever and can carve out fields and bury their dead companions in the dead leaves. Elephants live a long lifespan, generally living to be around 70 years old, it is sexually mature between 10 and 15 years old, and the gestation period is up to 22 months.

Elephants are extremely widely distributed, about 40 million years ago, they have their footprints on all continents except Oceania and continents, but now there are two main categories: Asian elephants and African elephants.

Elephants have an innate affinity for water and like to suck water into their trunks and spray it all over their bodies. After that, they often spray the ** with a protective layer of soil. The elephant's long trunk is not only used to smell, breathe, blow trumpet, and drink, but also to grasp things, especially good food.

The elephant trunk alone has about 100,000 muscles. The African elephant has 2 finger-like protrusions at the end of its proboscis and is very sensitive and dexterous and can be used to grasp small things, while the Asian elephant has only one. Both male and female African elephants have tusks and go in search of food and water, tearing the bark off the trunk.

Elephants have a strong long-term memory, because they have a habit of migrating from the side, and the leader of the herd tends to remember where there is a water source, and takes the herd with them every year during the dry season. In addition, elephants can also emit infrasound waves that humans cannot hear, completing communication with each other.

In addition, some studies have found that elephants are also very good at learning and cooperating. The researchers designed a special "tray" for the elephants, which were isolated with barbed wire. The tray is served with food, and there are two ropes at the other end of the net.

Only two elephants working together to pull the rope can pull the tray over. Because the rope is not fixed to the ground, it will slip away if you pull only one end. After experimentation, the researchers found that the elephants quickly got the hang of it, with one elephant stepping on a rope and the other trying to pull and finally succeed in eating the food on the tray.

Animal trivia: The Nobel Prize on elephants.