Elephants seem easy to figure out with their big bodies, long trunks, and always walking in slow groups. But they’re not simple animals. Behind the usual facts are habits, abilities, and instincts ...

To celebrate, we picked 18 fun facts about the largest land mammal. For example, they "hug" their trunks to say hello to each other. An elephant's trunk weighs 400 pounds, but it can pick up things as ...

They don’t digest food well. Elephants digest less than half of what they eat. They poop 12 to 15 times a day, that’s 220 to 250 pounds.

World Elephant Day takes place on August 12 and the theme for 2025 celebrates the matriarch elephant. A matriarch elephant is the leader of the elephant family or herd. She is the oldest, most ...

Elephants are the world’s largest land animals. There are lots of different kinds. There’s the African Forest elephant, the African Savannah elephant and the Asian elephant. You can tell them apart by ...

Elephants are known for their impressive size and intelligence, but there are many unique facts about these giants.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Elephants at Tsavo West National Park. [David Gichuru, Standard] Elephants are the world ...

• At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 230 pounds and stands over 2 ½ feet tall. Baby elephants are nearly blind at birth and rely upon their trunks and their mothers to help them. • A newborn ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

According to the World Wildlife Fund, an elephant’s trunk, which is used to drink water, pick up objects, greet each other, etc., has up to 40,000 muscles. The Asian Elephant is listed as an ...