If you travel to exotic places or even to a shopping mall near you, never buy anything that looks like ivory as it probably is. The interval between births is between two and a half to four years An elephant s trunk , a union of the nose and upper lip, is a highly sensitive organ with over 100,000 muscle units. Interesting Facts Elephant trunks can get very heavy. Elephants are sensitive fellow animals where if a baby complains, the entire family will rumble and go over to touch and caress it. Elephants have greeting ceremonies when a friend that has been away for some time returns to the group.
Elephants grieve at a loss of a stillborn baby, a family member, and in many cases other elephants.
This is accomplished by filling the trunk with water and then using it as a hose to pour it into the elephant's mouth. Over the course of evolution, the elephant as we know it today has evolved into a strong forced bulldozer that has the power to modify the landscape it resides in. If you see nature as something static and in a particular way then any change no matter how minute will amount to destruction. Put in perspective, the effect that elephants have on their environment may not be as serious are we have been led to believe. Unfortunately for some, our narrow opinion of seeing elephants as only living bulldozers of destruction is far from the case.