What Elephants Eat: An elephant’s size means that, when it is fully grown, it is safe from all predators other than humans. To support its large size it needs huge amounts of food. An adult elephant eats about 150 kg (300 lb) of grass, leaves, twigs and fruit each day. Tree bark is the favourite food source of elephants. To supplement the diet, elephants will dig up earth to obtain salt and minerals. The tusks are used to churn the ground.
Elephant Eat Grass Picture
What Elephants Drink: Elephants require 65 to 95 litres of water every day. This is because of the bulky size of the elephants.
Such tough food needs to be thoroughly chewed, and elephants have grinding teeth in the back of their mouths. This is the position in which the teeth have the most force, but they do wear out. When this happens they are replaced by others which push in from behind. In all they have six sets of grinding teeth, but when the last of these wears out, the animals is probably about 55 years old. It becomes weakened by lack of food and dies of starvation or disease.
Elephant Drinking Water Picture
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