How much water and food do the heaviest animals in the world require?
An elephant needs 80 liters of water in a day
and 150 kg of food. How much water and
food does the elephant need in 7 days?
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Answer:
Tusks are used to carve into the trunk and tear off strips of bark. Elephants require about 68.4 to 98.8 L (18 to 26 gal.) of water daily, but may consume up to 152 L (40 gal.). An adult male elephant can drink up to 212 L (55 gal.)
Answer:
The largest land animals in the world today, there are two distinct species of elephants – the Asian elephant and the African elephant. African elephants can grow to a height of about 13 feet and weigh more than ten tons, or 20,000 pounds! Though smaller, Asian elephants can still grow to a height of 12 feet and weigh more than seven tons (14,000 lbs). They have the largest brain and longest gestation period of any land animal with each pregnancy averaging 21.5 months.
Elephants are also long-lived. Studies show African elephant life expectancy to be 41 years for females and 24 years for males, though the maximum lifespan for females is more than 65 years and close to 60 years for males. Elephants develop at a rate similar to humans.
Since elephants are so large, they require an enormous amount of food. Elephants may spend 12-18 hours a day feeding. Adult elephants can eat between 200-600 pounds of food a day. As herbivores, elephants consume grasses, tree foliage, bark, twigs, and other vegetation daily. Elephants can also drink up to 50 gallons of water a day about as much as a standard bathtub holds.
Elephants are a keystone species that influence the composition of their environment while often benefiting other species. The elephants ability to locate underground water and dig pools helps provide many other species with water during droughts. Elephants may destroy trees and shrubs allowing for grasses to grow that other species eat.
Physical Characteristics
Their unique trunk acts as part nose to assist in breathing and detecting odors, and part hand to assist with manipulating objects, social interactions, eating, dust bathing, drawing-up water and releasing it into the mouth for drinking. Their trunk is composed of more than 40,000 muscles, making it strong, flexible and dexterous.
Elephants ivory tusks are actually elongated incisor teeth. They use these tusks to dig out minerals from the soil and to dig waterholes in dry riverbeds. They excavate the holes using their trunk, tusks, and feet.
An elephant’s ears, especially those of the African elephant, help them to stay cool. Their ears are filled with blood vessels; by holding them out in the wind or flapping them, an elephant can create its own cooling system.
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