To sustain such a gigantic figure, they have to eat that much. If anything is green nearby, they tend to latch onto it. They even try to eat up the soul of a tree! But, it’s not possible. They eat leaves, twigs, bark, roots, fruit, flowers… everything. It’s a lesson for us.Įlephant eating a cactus What do elephants eat?Įlephants are herbivorous animals. After finding it, they enjoy it together. When they get hungry, they stick together while moving such long distances to find food. In the Etosha region of Namibia, it is recorded that elephants living there move as far as 90-180 km per day in search of just some food! They are the real fighters of the animal planet. Do you know elephants take a long arduous journey in search of food and water? They walk 10-20 km a day daily to find sufficient amounts of food and water for the whole family. In those cases, they drink a huge amount of water to compensate for the loss of water from their body. In some places, elephants have to struggle in search of water. In hot areas, an elephant drinks more water than an elephant living in a reasonably average temperate region. The amount of food they eat depends on various factors, like the environment of their habitat, food availability, and other biological needs. Do you know how much water they drink? An elephant drinks an average of 40-45 liters of water in just a single day. Elephants eat too much!Įlephants can eat an average of 150-160 kg of food in a day! Yes, in a single day. If you own a pair of glasses, clean it with ease. Now, quickly get the details of an elephant’s daily diet. We grow baby teeth and then replace them with permanent adult teeth. Elephants are mammals but don’t grow teeth just like us. Now, an elephant has flat teeth to grind the leaves and tusks to rip the bark off from a tree.ĭo you know the teeth of elephants are continually replaced from time to time? That’s why they are called polyphyodont. For choosing such a vegetarian diet the internal environment of their body and their outer eating parts started to transform. Whatsoever, elephants adapted themselves to live on the green leaves nature grows on her kind breast and drinks from her eyes, to be specific from nearby water bodies. So herbivores are animals that eat only vegetables and/or vegetation.Įlephants feed entirely on naturally growing plants and shrubs. In Latin, herba means “a small plant or herb” and vora means “to eat”. The word herbivore comes from the Latin word herbivora. Know what this means? Let’s double-check: An African elephant takes on a large pumpkin – no contest! Elephants are herbivoresĮlephants are what’s known as herbivorous animals.