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Meet the Elephants

The largest living land animal, with its wandering trunk and soulful eyes, the elephant is a much beloved and charismatic gentle giant. A star of the savanna on holidays to Africa, or firm favourite on holidays to Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia, they spend a good 2/3rds of their day eating grass plus large amounts of tree bark, roots, leaves and small stems. Elephants are also well-known for their emotional intelligence and complex social structures – seeing them in the wild is an awe-inspiring sight.

There are three species living today – African bush/savanna elephants, the largest of the lot, African forest elephants, and Asian elephants. Here, we’ll be focussing on African savanna elephants and Asian elephants.