Nutritional Facts for Elephants

- Elephants need to eat different things depending on their age and what they need to grow.

- Young elephants need a lot of energy rich plants to eat like mainly, sugarcane.

- For muscle growth foods like leguminous plants are important and things like Calcium and Phosphorus are also very important nutrients for a elephant to have.

- Of domesticated animals the horse has the most similar digestive system to elephants but the dugong and manatee are their closest relatives in the wild.

- Since elephants don’t have multiple stomach compartments they need the help of symbiotic bacteria to chew their food

- A elephants digestion is a long process. Elephants must digest their food with less then even 50% efficiency. The inefficient digestion and mass amount of food makes elephants produce lots of manure.

 Digestive Facts for Elephants