FUN FACTS:
Asian elephants can tear down trees or pick up a blade of grass with their trunks.
Elephants have the largest brain of any land mammal. In fact, of all land mammals, they have the greatest volume of cerebral cortex available for cognitive processing.
An elephant’s trunk has more than 40,000 muscles, more than all the muscles in a human body!
Asian elephants have a gestation period of almost 22 months—the longest of any animal. Calves often nurse for two to four years.
Asian elephants communicate via rumbles, bellows, and moans. They also emit low-frequency infrasounds that can travel several miles.
Along with dolphins and great apes, Asian elephants are the only animals known to recognize themselves in a mirror.