how big is a newborn elephant
â¦At birth the African elephant weighs about 260 pounds and the Asian elephant 220 poundsâ¦ Horns, Tusks, and Flippers, Donald Prothero and Robert Schoch, 2002. â¦At b â¦ irth an elephant calf weighs around 260 pounds and stands about two feet nine inches at the shoulderâ¦.. - Elephant Memories, Cynthia Moss, 2000 â¦Newborn elephants weigh about 260 pounds and are less than 3 feet tall a the shoulderâ¦ Elephants, Karen Dudley, 1997.
Turns out that the photo is real, but itâs not the worldâs smallest elephant. According to the website ThatsNonsense.com, the photo is of a dead elephant fetus. The elephant mother died, and as a result, so did the baby elephant. You can see the original photos in this Picassa album, including the photo of the mother elephant. At birth, an elephant weighs around 200 pounds.