An Elephant's height can be determined by multiplying the circumference of its front foot pad by two and a half. Its trunk can extend up to half a meter beyond its front feet.
An Elephant's walk is very silent because their toes are made from cartilage. The top part of an Elephant's ear is made of cartilage, the rest is skin.
Three quarters of an Elephant's femur is in its body, which is why its knees are unusually very high up. Its shoulders are much higher than its lower back.
Young male elephants leave their respective herds at puberty, to join a bachelor herd.
An elephant can feed for a time span of up to 16 hours per day and consumes 150 - 250 kilograms of vegetation; 5% of their body weight.
All the blood in an Elephant's ear can be pumped through it ears within a span of 20 minutes.
a feeding Elephant can generate sufficient heat within its body to warm up a house.