Some Interesting Facts about Elephants

These are few interesting facts about elephants.

Elephants have their breasts developed under their front legs, which is quite different from any other four-legged mammal.

Elephants have their herd which contains female elephants, where each member look after the children of the herd.

Male elephants often have their period of musth where they experience excess amount of testosterone (male sex horo mones) being produced in their body. This can make the bull elephant very aggressive and make it behave in a very
abnormal way.

Elephants have very nice hearing abilities and can hear even very low sounds. So the best way to get rid of an elephant when its angry is to create lots of noise.

Because of its daily food requirement which is more than 100kgs , its very difficult for elephants to digest. So elephants fart a lot of methane enough to move a car 20 miles daily.

Elephants are very social animals. They are even seen gathering around the leftover bones of the dead crew member and touching those bones gently. They show their grief towards their dead relatives.