Elephants

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elephants are mammals which are the largest living lands animals on earth. They consist of three living species - the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant. The gestation period of elephants is 22 months and is the longest of any land animal. The average weight of an elephant calf at birth is 105 kilograms and it generally lives for 50 to 70 years. The largest elephant ever recorded was a male which was shot in Angola in 1974. It weighed approximately 10,900 kilograms and had a shoulder height of 3.96 metres...