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Classification
Mammal
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Diet
Herbivore
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Lifespan
50–70 years
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Weight
3000–6000 kg
Population Trend
📉Decreasing
Description
The largest living land animal, playing a crucial role as ecosystem engineers across Africa.
Habitat
🌿 savanna🌿 forest🌿 grassland🌿 wetland
Extended Data
Taxonomy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Proboscidea
Family
Elephantidae
Genus
Loxodonta
Fun Facts
1
The largest living land animal, weighing up to 6 tonnes.
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Can communicate using infrasound over distances of 10 km.
3
Their trunks contain over 40,000 muscles.
4
Elephants mourn their dead and show empathy.
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Pregnancy lasts 22 months — the longest of any land animal.