Although elephant tusks appear large today, the tusks of their ancestors were dramatically larger. Due to the large size of the tusks, and the fact that they were longer than the elephant’s head ...

So calves can grow to the size of a Boeing 757 by adulthood. Sounds like a pretty cushy start to life, especially when compared to other hefty newborns. On dry land, elephants win the biggest baby ...

Elephants are herbivores and eat things like bananas and fruits, tree bark, leaves, and bamboo. Their enormous size also comes with an enormous appetite. A single elephant can eat 220 to 440 ...

Bornean elephants are purportedly the smallest elephants in the world. Their calves are really diminutive: picture an animal the size of a compact fridge. They have hairy ears and an Eeyore-like ...

African elephants are the largest mammals that live on land. There’s a lot of rumours that go round about these gentle giants though: that they never forget, that they grieve, and that their ...

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He used a tilted wide-angle lens to catch the size of any elephant entering the foreground, and a narrow aperture to create depth of field so that elephants in the background would also be in focus.