Some interesting facts about elephants:

Elephants are excellent swimmers, but do not know how to jump, so just step over or bypass the obstacle.

•  In addition to the fact that elephants are the largest living land mammals on the planet, the pregnancy of elephant females lasts 22 months, this is the longest period for bearing young animals among all animals. In this case, only one cub is born with a weight of up to 100 kg.
•  On the day the elephant eats up to 450 kg of plant food to 300 liters of water. And because he eats so much, his teeth change 6-7 times in his life.
•  It is believed that the elephants are well developed emotional sphere - they can experience different feelings: sadness, joy, empathy, sadness and even depression. By the way, elephants are the only animals that have a burial ritual.
•  It is also known that elephants are right-handed and left-handed, depending on which tusks they work more often. Because of this, they usually have one tusk shorter than the other - the worker wears out faster.
•  Elephants are excellent swimmers, but do not know how to jump, so just step over or bypass the obstacle.

And if he is dug in the mud, like elephants like to do, the dried mud and subcutaneous fat layer, which can reach up to 5 cm in thickness, makes it a natural armor.

• And there are sayings about elephants: "An elephant in a porcelian shop" is when an elephant is often compared to a clumsy, slow-moving man with poor coordination of movement, who will surely break something around himself. But this, by the way, is misleading, because, according to the trainers, the elephant is a very accurate and cautious animal.
• But the saying "As shot an elephant with a fraction " is very true. After all, the thickness of the skin with the underlying layers reaches 3 cm. And if he is dug in the mud, like elephants like to do, the dried mud and subcutaneous fat layer, which can reach up to 5 cm in thickness, makes it a natural armor.