African Elephant
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Scientific Name | Lifespan | ||
Loxodonta africana | 60 to 70 years | ||
Diet | |||
Herbivore. They graze and browse, eating up to 224 kilograms (600 pounds) of food a day consisting of grass, shoots, bark, buds of trees and shrubs, fruits, and vegetables. They drink 114 - 189 liters (30 - 50 gallons) of water per day. | |||
Predators and Threats | |||
Humans; lions, wild dogs, crocodiles, and hyenas will prey on elephant calves. | |||
Habitat | |||
Savannah, dense forests to open plains; widely distributed throughout central, western and eastern Africa, south of the Sahara, with the forest elephant inhabiting the rainforests of the Congo basin. |