Elephants are cute, so I thought I'd find some fun facts for you...
- An elephant calf often sucks its trunk for comfort
- Elephants prefer one tusk over the other, just as people are either left or right-handed
- Elephants use their trunk as a snorkel when swimming
- Elephants waive their trunks up in the air and from side to side to smell better
- An elephants' skin is an inch thick
- Elephants flap their ears to keep cool
- Elephants spend up to 16-18 hours per day eating
- An elephant's trunk is the fusion of the nose and upper lip
- Elephants' tusks grow throughout their lives
- Elephants use their feet to listen, they can pick up sub-sonic rumblings made by other elephants, through vibrations in the ground
- Only one mammal can't jump... elephants!
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