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HERD
Matriarch leads
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🐘 ELEPHANT: THE MEMORY GIANT
TOPIC 02 · AFRICAN SAVANNA · INTELLIGENCE · CHAPTER A
PAGE 1 OF 5, LAND LIFTERS
THE HERD
Large elephant herd led by elderly matriarch walking across open savanna
BIGGEST ON LAND
African elephants are the heaviest land animals alive, a bull can exceed six tonnes, yet they move in near silence. Life revolves around a female-led herd: related mothers, sisters, aunts, and young. Grandmother elephants matter, the oldest one often guides the group to water in drought years, because she remembers what younger elephants have never seen.
A trunk is a nose, hand, shower, snorkel, and bugle all in one. With more than 40,000 muscles, it is the most skillful tool in the entire mammal world.
SCALE
Size comparison showing African elephant towering over a human figure
Shoulder 2.5–4 m
Pregnancy ~22 months
Calves 90–120 kg at birth
TRUNK
Elephant using trunk to lift grass, spray water, and greet another elephant
Pull grass · Lift logs
Suck & spray water · Hug friends
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