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Female elephants live in groups of about 15 animals, all related and led by a matriarch, usually the oldest in the group. She’ll decide where and when they move and rest, day to day and season to season.

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Elephants don’t like peanuts. They don’t eat them in the wild, and zoos don’t feed them to their captive elephants

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Elephants have no natural predators. However, lions will sometimes prey on young or weak elephants in the wild. The main risk to elephants is from humans through poaching and changes to their habitat

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The elephant’s closest living relative is the rock hyrax, a small furry mammal that lives in rocky landscapes across sub-Saharan Africa and along the coast of the Arabian peninsula.

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The elephant’s trunk is able to sense the size, shape and temperature of an object. An elephant uses its trunk to lift food and suck up water then pour it into its mouth.

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Both female and male African elephants have tusks but only the male Asian elephants have tusks. They use their tusks for digging and finding food.

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An elephant can use its tusks to dig for ground water. An adult elephant needs to drink around 210 lits of water a day.

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Elephants are herbivores and can spend up to 16 hours days collecting leaves, twigs, bamboo and roots.

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Elephants can swim

they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water.

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Elephants

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