An adult Asian or African elephant is about 10 feet high, weighs between 10,000 and 15,000 pounds, is herbivorous, eats from 16 to 18 hours a day, and drinks 30 to 60 gallons of water daily.
Elephants use their trunks to scoop up water into their mouths. The scooped-up water is also used for bathing and cooling off. Those trunks have more than 40,000 muscles divided into 150,000 units. The human body has 639 muscles. Trunks not only used for drinking, but also for gathering food, greeting family and friends, caressing, and emitting communication sounds, like trumpet calls.
The back of an elephant's trunk can detect and distinguish smells several hundred times better than any breed of dog, and dogs' sense of smell is up to 100,000 times better than humans.
