Size:
              Male: 6.000 Kg. Female: 4.000 to 5.000 Kg. Shoulder height: 3 m. The
              female's occipital area is squared, while the male's one is rounded.
              The female's tusks are more thinner and shorter than the male's ones.

Behavior:
              The Elephant is active both by night and by day. It usually rest few
              hours during the night. It lives in groups untill 50 individual lead by
              an elderly female. Normally for each group it is present only one adult
              male. It takes bath in the mud very frequently to protect its delicate skin
              from the parasites and the heat.
  Food:
              It feeds with every kind of vegetal and needs almost 200 lt. of water per
              day.

  Reproduction:
              A single calf is dropped after a 22 months gestation period, it's possibile
              a twin's birth.

 Longevity: (how long the animal lives)
              60 to 80 years.
 
 
 
 
 

Courtesy of Zoo in the Wild   http://www.naturalia.org/