In addition to the bark on trees, elephants eat a variety of grasses, leaves, bushes, shrubs and other small plants, fruits, twigs and even roots. They use their trunk to move food into a pile and then pick up their "bite-sized pieces" with their trunk. It is estimated that these large mammals spend 16 or more hours eating over 300 pounds of vegetation each and every day.
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So much effort just to feast on some grasses in the Chobe River - but oh so fun to watch.
Fun fact: Elephants have about 150,000 muscles in their trunk!
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Fun fact: Elephants have about 150,000 muscles in their trunk!
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