What are the living habits of elephants?

Elephants inhabit many habitats, especially forests, grasslands and river valleys. Social men occasionally live alone. He eats plants and eats a lot. He eats more than 225 kilograms every day. Life expectancy is about 80 years. Ivory has always been a precious carving material and its price is very high. As a result, a large number of elephants were killed and the number dropped sharply.

Elephants are prone to skin diseases because of less hair, so they need to take a bath or rest frequently. Elephant's skin is thick and wrinkled. Some fold lines are more than ten centimeters deep. The skin is light gray. Lights sometimes look like reddish-brown soil. Brown eyes and long hair. There is a rare albinism. White elephants usually have blue eyes.

Elephants often eat rocks or soil rich in mineral salts to supplement salt and nutrition. They also like bathing very much. There are many kinds of bathing methods: Biquan bath, mud bath and dust bath.

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Characteristics of elephants:

1, huge.

No matter where elephants are, they are basically far bigger than ordinary animals. The shoulder height of Asian elephants is 3.7 to 4. 1 m. It weighs 3-5 tons, the African elephant weighs 5.5-8 tons, the shoulder height is 4.3-4.5 meters, and the African forest elephant weighs 3.5 tons, with an average shoulder height of 2.7 meters.

2. Big ivory

Ivory refers to front teeth like the palate. In ancient times, ivory was a valuable material used to make tooth carvings, dentures, fans, dice and so on. In modern times, it is used as ornaments or utensils, such as tooth carving, billiards, dice, keys, mahjong, buttons and so on.

In particular, the front teeth of African elephants can be as long as 3.3 meters, while the female fangs of Asian elephants are not exposed; There are six buccal teeth on both sides of the upper and lower jaw, which grow from front to back in turn, with high crown and complex structure.

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