The male elephants live solitary lives. When an elephant wants to communicate with another elephant, the elephant makes a rumbling noise from its throat. When it gets angry, it makes a loud trumpeting sound. Elephants are herbivores , and eat grass, foliage, fruit, branches, and twigs. Elephants can eat up to 500 pounds of vegetation in a single day and drink as much as 40 gallons of water at one time.
African elephants live all throughout Africa, south of the Sahara.
Their cousins, the Asian elephants, are smaller and live in Asia. The African elephant is an endangered species. In the African country of Kenya, in the last ten years or so, the elephant population has dropped by 80 percent, from 150,000 down to 30,000. When elephants cannot find water, during the dry season, they will dig in the sandy bed of a dry river to find water.