But charges are rarely carried through, at the last moment, the elephant either stops short or turns aside. Elephants are entirely vegetarian. They eat a wide variety of grasses, foliage, fruit, and small branches and twigs. They gather food with the aid of their trunk and then place it into their mouths. The few teeth elephants have are used to grind their food.
Elephants have gigantic appetites.
Night, early morning, and evening are their favorite eating and drinking times, but they also eat all day on the move. Elephants mate when they are 14 or 15 years old. Courtship involves a display of affection between the male and female in which they caress each other with their trunks. A single calf, standing about 33 inches high and weighing approximately 250 pounds is born 22 months later. The calf is suckled for at least 2 years and remains in the family unit after the birth of its mother s next calf.