.The African elephant is the largest and strongest land mammals. The body length of the adult male may reach 7.5 meters, height - 3.5 meters, and weighs 5 tons. .Once this giant, inhabited the whole of Africa South of the Sahara desert. Today in the wild there are about 600 thousand of these African giants. They live in separate areas of East, South, West and Equatorial Africa. However, relatively large populations can be found only in reserves or national parks.Elephants live together in a herd, the slave of an old and wise elephant, the size of which varies from 9 to 12 individuals. The herd consists of females and their offspring. Adult males live separately, only occasionally uniting in temporary herds. The lifespan of an African elephant is up to 60-70 years, while in captivity, this figure reaches 80 years. Interestingly, throughout the life of an elephant never ceases to grow.Nature has endowed the elephant is an amazing and unique body - trunk. Extraordinary power and flexibility it gives to 40 thousand muscles of which it consists. It is simultaneously the nose, lip, hand and a powerful weapon of the animal. At the tip of the trunk in African giant are two of appendage fingers, which he can pick up the smallest object.In conclusion, let us unmask the myths about cystocoele and clumsiness of the elephants.
Although the thickness of elephant skin in some places reaches 2.5 cm, it is quite sensitive to the bites of insects and the scorching rays of the sun. This is why elephants like to take mud baths, and the cubs are trying to obscure her own shadow.Moving these giants almost silently. Working his way through the jungle forest, they will not give themselves or the snapping of twigs or rustling of leaves. A steep climb for an elephant is also not an obstacle, he overcomes it gracefully without much effort. But if on the way to see the waterfront, the African giant will handle it with enviable ease of a seasoned swimmer