Elephants are the largest living land mammals on earth.
There are three living species currently recognized which are
distinguishable by the shape and size of their ears:
🐘 African bush elephants
🐘 African forest elephant
🐘 Asian elephant
A baby elephant (known as a calf) are able to stand within 20 minuts
of being born and can walk within 1 hour.
Around 90% of African elephants have been wiped out in the past
century - largely due to the ivory trade - leaving an estimated
415,000 wild elephants alive today.
The elephant's temporal lobe (the area of the brain associated with
memory) is larger and denser than that of people - hence the saying
'elephants never forget'.
