What do elephants eat?

Elephants are the largest mammals on earth still live today. The heaviest elephant is recognized as the elephant was shot down in Angola in 1974. It is a bull elephant, weighs 12,000 kg (26,400 pounds). The smallest elephants, with the size to large calf or pig, is the prehistoric elephants lived on Crete until around 5000 BC, and probably to the year 3000 BC. The skull remains, their scattered, with large single hole faucet features at the front, perhaps the basis of beliefs about the existence of the one-eyed giant (Cyclops) in Odyssey Homer... some interesting facts.

The size of an elephant is meant when it is fully developed, apart from humans, it's safe from all predators. And to feed his great body, it must need a lot of food. Each elephant eats about 150 kilograms mature (300 lb) of grass, twigs, leaves, fruit... every day. Such foods should be chewed thoroughly... amazing animal facts.

Elephants have teeth grinding behind in his mouth, this is the location where the most powerful teeth, but it also wears out. Meanwhile the new teeth will be coming up at the bottom and then push out the old teeth. Therefore, elephant teeth throughout life, a total of six sets of teeth grinding, but when the last teeth worn then the elephant lived to 55 years old. It becomes weakened by lack of food and will starve rather than disease.

Bushy elephants to feed hose and put into the mouth. Their main food is grass and other vegetation on the ground. Elephants use water to pull the leaves, stems and twigs from above. When food is scarce, elephant tusks used to knocked down trees. When thirsty, elephant focused waterfront or water pools, even to dig down hoses to suck water. Elephant drinking water by suction hose and sprayed into the mouth. Every day elephants consume 160-300 liters of water. Elephants also jetted on the back to cool the skin, no plants for kids...

Every day adult elephant waste discharged a heavier weight of a boy. Elephant dung containing the seeds that will grow whale swallowed into new trees replace the trees they had eaten or crashed. Currently in some countries are raising elephants, research and testing went into the elephant dung into paper processing (for elephant dung quite clean, odorless so they only eat plants and drinking water).