Elephants have a very high rate of cancer.
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Elephants have a VERY low cancer rate. Recent research in elephants has discovered a gene that actually kills off cancer cells.
An elephants brain weighs about 11 pounds-larger than any other animal in the world.
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The sperm whale has a brain that weighs about 18 pounds...
The heart of an adult elephant weighs between 40-60 pounds and beats about 30 times per minute.
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It takes about two years from conception for a female elephant to give birth.
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There are two species of elephant: African and Asian.
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Elephants have an excellent sense of smell and hearing but bad eyesight.
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Adult elephants cannot jump.
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Most elephants can only give birth to one calf at a time-twins are extremely rare.
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The average life span for an elephant in the wild is from 120 to 150 years.
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The average life span for an elephant in the wild is from 50 to 70 years.
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In both African and Asian elephant species, only the males grow tusks.
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Female and male African elephants have tusks, but only the male Asian elephants have tusks.
All elephants have 5 toes on each foot and each toe has a toenail.
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All elephants DO have 5 toes on each foot but not every toe has a toenail. The number of toenails differs with species.
Asian elephants are slightly LARGER than African elephants.
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African elephants are usually around 10 feet tall and weigh up to 16,000 pounds, Asian elephants weigh up to 13,000 pounds.
