The elephant is the mightiest beast on land, and an incredibly interesting animal with deep social ties, family values and remarkable intelligence. How much do you know about them? Let's test you.
Are elephants lead by the males or females of the group?
Elephant family groups are lead by matriarchs, usually the eldest female in the group, the grandmother or great-grandmother.
Males
Females
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How high can an elephant jump?
Elephants are not designed to jump. Their legs are made to carry their enormous weight and help them stand for long periods of time.
A few feet in the air
Half their own height
Just enough to cross small patches
They can't
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When compared to the human brain, the elephant brain has ______ neurons.
Elephants have the largest brains of any land mammal. It features an average of 300,000,000,000 or three hundred billion neurons, the same as a human brain.
The same amount of
More
Less
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What continents do elephants come from?
Asia & Europe
Asia & Oceania
Asia & Africa
South America & Africa
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When an elephant is scared, what will it do with its trunk?
Hit what scared it
Flail its trunk around
Blow water in the air
Make a trumpet sound
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To cool off, what does the elephant fling on its back?
Water
Leaves and branches
Swaths of grass
Mud or dirt
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What is an elephant's top speed?
5 mph (8 kph)
25 mph (40 kph)
40 mph (64 kph)
60 mph (96 kph)
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What does an elephant breathe through?
Elephants breathe and smell through their trunk.
Mouth
Trunk
Both trunk and mouth
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Elephants can live as long as...
50 years
25 years
30 years
80 years
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True or False: Only male elephants have ivory tusks.
In African elephants, both males and females grow large tusks. Male Asian elephants grow large tusks, while females grow much smaller ones called 'tushes' that may not grow outside the mouth.
True
False
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While the human body has about 600 muscles, how many muscles are in an elephant's TRUNK?
They need all these muscles to be able to pick up heavy objects, greet one another and suck up water.
80,000
40,000
20,000
5,000
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How are African elephants different than Asian elephants?
Asian elephants have larger ears and concave backs while African elephants have smaller ears and convex or level backs.
African elephants have smaller ears and concave backs while Asian elephants have larger ears and convex or level backs.
African elephants have larger ears and concave backs while Asian elephants have smaller ears and convex or level backs.
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