We're only humane Group of African elephants in their element. Those celebrating are the same people entrusted with the management of ivory stocks. Some people are obviously about to make a lot of money from ivory which perhaps explains the singing and dancing at the conference centre. One thing all sides can agree on is that African elephants are today's largest land animals.
African elephants are larger than the only other elephant species, the Asian elephant.
Male savanna elephants are up to 4 meters tall at the shoulder, and weigh roughly 5,500 kilograms. To fuel that mass, they eat an average of 150 kilograms of food per day, and drink 100 to 220 liters of water. With such a voracious appetite, it's not surprising that as Africa's exploding human population seeks more farm and rangeland, people are having ever-greater conflict with elephants.