All About Elephants - Test Your Knowledge

There are less than 35,000 Asian elephants in the world. This indicates that the population of Asian elephants is relatively small. The declining numbers of Asian elephants and the threats they face, such as habitat loss and poaching, contribute to their endangered status. Conservation efforts are crucial to protect and increase the population of these magnificent animals.

That is the longest pregnancy of any mammal!

Elephants use their trunk to drink up to 150L per day

A person only has around 650 muscles in their whole body!

That's about 2 wheelbarrows full that our keepers have to pick up

Elephants have six sets of teeth in their lifetime. As elephants are herbivores and their diet consists mainly of coarse vegetation, their teeth wear down quickly. When one set of teeth becomes worn out, it is replaced by another set. This process occurs six times throughout an elephant's life, allowing them to continue eating and digesting their food properly.

Asian elephants have 1. African elephants have 2. These tips are extremely sensitive and can pick up a single blade of grass!

Asian elephants eat between 120-300kg of food per day - around 10% of their body weight. For you , that's like eating 60 jam sandwiches a day!

Elephants are herbivores and eat lots of leafy greens

Each tooth is about the same size as a brick!