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Elephant
The adult male African elephant is the bulkiest and heaviest of all land mammals weighing as much as 6000 kg for a prime bull. Elephant are generally placid, but can be extremely dangerous If threatened or when they are in season. There are two aggressive behavioral patterns. If the animal is not serious about its intent but just wishes to assert itself or show its dominance, it may make a mock charge, trumpeting loudly, with the trunk probably extended and the ears flapping. If however the animal intent on mischief, then the trunk may be rolled up for protection or left dangling, the ears are laid flat against the head and the tusks pointed directly at the quarry. The charge made is deadly in its silence. to about 70 years, or sometime slightly longer, with their age-span strictly controlled by their dentition.  Elephants do not go off to die in special “elephant graveyards” as popular legend would have it. Their remains do not litter the veld as the scavengers large and small, ultimately remove all evidence even of this largest of all land animals. tree-bark and roots, leaves softer branches, grass and fruit is eaten. |
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