- Elephants are the largest land animals in the world.
- The largest elephant on record was an adult male African elephant. It weighed about 24,000 pounds and was 13 feet tall at the shoulder!
- Elephants can live to be over 70 years old.
- Only one mammal can’t jump — the elephant.
- The average weight for an elephant heart is about 27 to 46 pounds!
- Elephants have a highly developed brain and the largest of all the land mammals. The brain is 3 or 4 times larger than that of humans although smaller as a proportion of body weight.
- Elephants have a slow pulse rate of 27. For a canary it is 1000!
- An elephant’s skin is an inch thick.
- Elephants have poor eyesight but an amazing sense of smell.
