Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Interesting Facts - Elephants


Yet another "Interesting Facts" post - this time it is about one of my favourite animal, Elephants. Read on:

  • An elephant´s trunk, a union of the nose and upper lip, is a highly sensitive organ with over 100,000 muscle units.
  • They may live seventy years or possibly more...
  • An elephant's brain is about four times the size of a human's brain.
  • Elephants can weigh about 10,000 pounds.
  • Elephants can eat upto 350 pounds of food daily.
  • Their main sources of food are grass and bark.
  • They drink about 18 gallons of water a day.
  • Elephants spend about ¾ of their time day and night, selecting, picking and eating food.
  • Elephants have large ears but their hearing is not exceptionally good. An elephant will gently wave its large ears so that the blood in them will cool them down. The cool blood circulates around the body, helping to keep the elephant cool in very hot weather.
  • They can run 24mph for short distances.
  • Elephants can sleep standing up.
  • They poop 80 pounds in one day. :)

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I never thght, they cud run 24mph ... Thats truly unbelievable. Man !! I can never run away from an elephant, if it chases me .. BEWARE !!!

11/08/2005 11:02 PM  
Blogger Preethi said...

Sesh, Even I always thought Elephants were slow runners until I had a personal experience once where an Elephant started chasing our jeep. That one was really fast. It was chasing us like crazy for nearly 10 mins and then it gave up. It was very scary. U better not get into a situation like that.

11/09/2005 11:14 AM  
Blogger Vijay Ramamurthi said...

first time here :)
nice

11/10/2005 12:10 PM  
Blogger Smashinguy said...

Two questions:
1. How did the elephant manage to get into a situation where it was forced to chase you?

2. Is that why it is your favorite animal?

:-)

11/10/2005 9:43 PM  
Blogger Rajesh said...

I love elephats, thanx for info..

http://www.rajeshrana.blogspot.com

11/13/2005 3:41 AM  
Blogger Preethi said...

Vijay - Welcome & Keep visiting...

Ram - rombe lollu ;)

Rajesh - Good to know U love elephants too...they are cute...aren't they?

Arun - Thanks for the info!

11/14/2005 2:49 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

new on blog...indiblogger sent me here....happy holidays...

interesting stuff if u r a tamil movie buff...

12/18/2005 1:50 AM  

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