25 years ago there were 3,000,000 elephants but today there are 600,000 elephants. Piano keys are made out of elephant tusks. The elephant is quite a common mamal. The elephant can live up to 60-70 years. The african elephant is the biggest standing land mammal and it weighs 5 - 7.5 tons and stands at 3.4m high.
Elephants live in a herd.
There can be 10-20 elephants living in a herd but in some herds there are up to 50 elephants. The leader of the herd is usually a female elephant. The female elephant is called a cow. In the herd most of the elephants are related. When two or more bulls join the same herd at the same time, they are likely to fight each other.