25 Cool And Absolutely Extraordinary Elephant Facts

Scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia, elephants are the world´s largest land animals. Traditionally, two species of these amazing giants are recognized, the African elephant and the Asian elephant. Because of numerous reasons such as poaching or habitat destruction, the world´s population of elephants has been drastically decreasing. African elephants are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, while the Asian elephant is classed as endangered. To raise awareness of these beautiful, intelligent and peaceful mammals, we made a list of 25 little known elephant facts.

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Elephants love water. They like to swim, dive into the water and find great fun in fighting the waves. It also gives their joints a break with the buoyancy they get from the water.

Elephant females can have babies until they are about 50 years old. They tend to have a new baby every 2 and half to 4 years. They usually have one baby, twins are very rare.

Stories of African elephants getting drunk from the fermented marula fruit are not true. The animals don’t eat the fruit off the ground where it ferments, and even if they did, it would take about 1,400 pieces to get one elephant drunk.

The main reason why elephants are massively killed by poachers is their tusks. Although scientific researches proved the ivory consists of dentine, a tissue that is similar to bone and has no special effects or qualities.

Although the elephant trunk is really huge, weighing about 400 pounds, it is so dexterous it can pick up very tiny things including a single grain of rice.

An Elephant’s skin is so sensitive that they can feel a fly landing on it.

Newborn elephants can stand up shortly after the birth. They are born blind, weighing up to 260 pounds.

From ancient times, elephants have been used as working animals for various tasks. Since bulls can be difficult and dangerous to work with, they have often been chained and sometimes even abused. Historically, elephants were also considered even formidable instruments of war. Disgusting way of exploitation of these naturally peaceful creatures.

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[MandyDollofDollLand]

I love elephants so much. They are incredibly intelligent. I wish there were mini ones for pets! :)

[saberkix]

Elephants are cool. If only people stopped hunting them for heir ivory...

[paisley_playz]

Elephants are my favorite animal, but they are endangered.
It’s not too late to save them, we just have to care about them, we have to prevent illegal killings, reduce ivory demands and a few more things.
We can still save these smart creatures 🐘

[ImworriedImgettingspyedon]

Elephants are my favorite creatures ☺️ thanks for doing this awesome video

[vengefulbeauty]

The most interesting elephant fact I've ever heard, was that some mothers that have lost their babies will sometimes attempt to kidnap the baby of another elephant from a different herd. I always found that so fascinating. 

[lynneelliott]

I love elephants. Saw a female give birth on Tv on Monday. It was amazing.The babies are just so cute. The ivory trade is disgusting. There has got to  be away around this!

[johnalver]

awe man elephants are one of the coolest animals we have :)

[sheepwolf]

another interesting elephant fact is that they never stop growing. and the oldest elephant was a female asian elephant who was born in 1845 and lived to be 110 years old in 1955

[joannesabourin]

Another great one, these mamals are so majectic!  thanks so much for sharing!

[birgittaandersson]

Elephant is wonderful. Love them so much❤❤❤❤❤

[illuminati]

Thanks for featuring me in your video!

[karlgabrua]

Make a 25 bad comments about the new guy.... there are soo much now. He is doing a good job.

[Moreththerogue]

Another excellent video. Thank you guys for the work you put into these.

[cillianedge]

Amazing vid as always heres a suggestion 25 animal facts you probably didnt know

[Enjoy_life_forever_]

I love these fact sm and the fact that they can feel a fly land on them is so amazing bc there skin looks thick

[teksett]

Good video new guy Is getting up to a good speed. I usually like the longer discriptions but on shorter list videos. This is a good speed for a 25 list

[fudgeyourpants]

I may have to subscribe. Been watching these all day. Great videos here!!

[joeclark]

They are so beautiful 🥲 I love them ❤️

[cbacustom]

Taking away "number" was a good i idea imo! keep up the awesome work :)

[jeffrodgers]

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