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Stunning Kariba

 

Elephants are found in savannas and low forest.

Their diet is at least 50% grasses, supplemented with leaves, bamboo, twigs, bark, roots, and small amounts of fruits, seeds and flowers.

Because elephants only digest 40% of what they eat, they have to make up for their digestive system's lack of efficiency in volume.

An adult elephant can consume 140–270 kg (300–600 lb) of food a day. 60% of that food leaves the elephant's body undigested

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Uploaded on July 21, 2013
Taken on December 29, 2010