Elephants+diets

Elephants

Elephants are large creatures. The question is what feeds these large beast. They could hunt or fight for food or get an easy meal. Do they eat meat, plants or both from their surroundings? Elephants are herbivorous with means all they eat are plants or fruits. These large beast eat up three to five hundred pounds of vegetation a day. Elephants have been known to eat 10% of their body weight in one day. Elephants eats mainly grass and leaves from trees, but also different fruits like pineapples, watermelons, bananas, and apples - but these picky eaters will only eat red apples they do not eat green apples. When weather is too dry and the grass dies out, elephants take drastic measures. They will knock down trees to eat the foliage or even some woody parts. They will do anything to get their full meal in, even if that means grazing at night. Since elephants diet consist of grass and twigs and its takes time to digest their food they need lots of water at least 50 gallons a day to digest their food. Elephants use other ways to get food like using their trunks to dig up roots out of the ground. Pulling down trees and ripping up grass. Elephants never have trouble getting a meal.

Now that we know what elephants eats and how they obtain their food, it seems these large animals are very resourceful when it comes to satisfying their hunger. One interesting fact about elephants is that because they are so large they eat the dung or poop of other elephants, because elephants don't digest very well, leaving a lot of nutrients behind when they poop.