The herds normally have ten to twenty in them. The Ceylon elephant spends eighteen hours eating a day. Elephants are vegetarians and they eat mostly grasses, small branches and twigs, foliage, vines, leaves, fruit and the tender shoots of plants. An elephant has four teeth, that are replaced six times. Once the last tooth has worn down the elephant can no longer eat so it dies of starvation usually between the ages of 50 and 60 years.
Elephants eat a lot of food because their body is so large.
An elephant is made up of about 70per cent of water. At night-time, in the early morning and in the evenings are the elephants favorite eating and drinking hours. Elephants will eat when they are on the move with it's herd. It can snatch up leaves or clumps of grass without stopping or slowing down. A female elephant is normally called a cow, a male is a bull and a baby elephant is called a calf.