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Elephants cry, play, have incredible memories, and laugh. Elephants are highly sensitive and caring animals. if a baby elephant complains, the entire family will rumble and go over to look after it. They sometimes “hug” by wrapping their trunks together in displays of greeting and affection.

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Elephants have the longest pregnancy of all the animals. It takes a female 22 months to give birth.

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Elephants are protected by the African Elephant Conservation Act and the Endangered Species Act. An endangered species is in danger of extinction due to habitat destruction (deforestation, water pollution and global warming). Even though it is illegal, people still hunt elephants for their ivory tusks.

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1. The name of an adult male is a bull and an adult female is called a cow.
2. The elephant is the largest land mammal in the world.
3. Elephants have the largest brains in the animal kingdom.
4. Elephants are able to swim a far distance.
5. Elephants can live to over 70 years of age

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Elephants are herbivores and spend 16 hours a day eating plants off a tree. Most elephants prefer to eat leaves, shrubs, fruit, bark, herbs and grass.

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Elephants live in two different continents: Africa and Asia. In Africa there are two species: the bush elephant -who live in the Sahara - and the forest elephant. But there is only one species in Asia... the smallest of them all!

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Did you know that despite the size of elephant ears they have poor hearing? They also have poor eyesight but a brilliant sense of smell.