What is the function of an elephant's tail, and what food does it mainly eat?
The elephant is a creature with a sense of history, and it is also a first-class protected animal in our country. Although elephants are large in size and have long noses, they give people a cute and adorable impression, and their intelligence is also very high, allowing them to learn many human movements and knowledge. Nowadays, many Southeast Asian countries tame elephants to perform, and this practice is very cruel, causing serious harm to their physiology and psychology, and we should protect them. Let us take a look below at what is the function of an elephant's tail? What food does it mainly eat?
1. What is the function of an elephant's tail?
Elephants have a rather strong body odor, which easily attracts mosquito and insect bites. An elephant's tail is like a writing brush, and swinging it left and right can effectively drive away the mosquitoes and insects that harass it. In addition, an elephant's tail can also play a role in maintaining body balance.
2. What food do elephants mainly eat?
Elephants mainly eat grass and leaves, and they will also eat some tree trunks, bark, soil rich in mineral salts, stones and so on according to their needs. Elephants are rarely seen eating meat, but they like to eat fruit; in zoos, elephants have been seen eating coconuts, Hami melons, bananas and so on.
3. Introduction to elephants' living habits and classification
Elephants are gregarious animals, and generally the female elephant acts as the leader, mainly planning the daily route of movement, activity time, feeding places, resting places and so on. Adult male elephants are responsible for protecting the safety of the family and guarding the family.
Communication among elephants is through infrasound, a kind of sound wave that humans cannot hear, and under conditions without interference it can travel more than ten kilometers.
Elephants are mainly distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions south of the Sahara Desert in Africa and in South Asia and Southeast Asia, extending to the southern border of China, such as Thailand, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, China's Yunnan Province and other areas.
The main classifications of elephants are the Asian elephant, the African elephant and the African bush elephant.
The Asian elephant feeds on wild grass, leaves, bamboo leaves, wild fruit and so on, and lives in tropical jungles, grasslands and other places. Its sense of smell and hearing are very keen, its range is not fixed, and it is an endangered species; currently only more than three hundred remain in our country. The Asian elephant is a relatively intelligent and gentle-tempered kind, and is relatively easy to tame, but taming it to perform and similar practices is wrong.
The African elephant exists in the tropical forests and grassland areas of Africa, and is the largest land mammal currently in existence, feeding on wild grass, leaves, bark, tender branches and so on.
The African bush elephant is the savanna elephant, mainly distributed on the African continent. It mainly eats grass, and every day it must spend a large amount of time searching for food, but only part of the food can be absorbed. The African bush elephant is relatively large in size, with gray fur. It lives alone and is irritable in temperament; when stimulated it will enter a crazy state and attack anything, and it is very fierce.