Amazing facts about elephants

Elephants at Tsavo West National Park. [David Gichuru, Standard]

Elephants are the world’s largest land animals.

There are lots of different kinds. There’s the African Forest elephant, the African Savannah elephant and the Asian elephant. You can tell them apart by their ears. African elephants’ ears are the same shape as the map of Africa. Asian elephants’ ears look like the Indian map.