• • The trunks of elephants are extremely versatile. They can be used as a tool for many tasks. Elephants can shift logs weighing up to 600 kilograms and at the same time pick up something as small as a coin! Trunks have no bones but do have over 80,000 muscles, which are very flexible. It is usually 2 meters long and weighs around 140 kilograms. The Asian elephant has one finger on the end of the trunk, the African has two.

• • Elephant families have a matriarchal head, meaning that an older, experienced lady elephant leads the herd. A family usually consist of a mother, her sisters, daughters their babies (calves). Female family units range from three to twenty five elephants… (The Independent)

• • Young elephants must learn how to draw water up into their trunks and then pour it into their mouth. Elephants eat an extremely varied vegetarian diet, including grass, leaves, twigs, bark, fruit and seed pods. Favourite foods include: Bananas, bamboo, berries, mangoes, coconuts, corn, jungle shrubs, palm fruits, sugar cane, wood apples and wild rice… (animalcorner)

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