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Easy Elephant Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Printable elephant trivia quiz questions with answers

Easy Elephant Trivia  Questions

How many species of elephants are there?
A: Two, the African elephant and the Asian elephant.

Where can elephants be found?
A: Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Male African elephants are the largest what?
A: Extant terrestrial animals.

How tall can elephants get?
A: They can reach a height of 13 ft.

How much can they weigh?
A: They can weigh 15,000 lb.

All elephants have several distinctive features, the most notable of which is a what?
A: A long trunk or proboscis.

What is the proboscis used for?
A: The proboscis is used for many purposes, particularly breathing, lifting water and grasping objects.

What do elephants incisors grow into?
A: Tusks.

What do elephants use their tusks for?
A: They can be used as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging.

Elephants' large ear flaps help to control their what?
A: Body temperature.

How are African elephants different than Asian elephants?
A: African elephants have larger ears and concave backs while Asian elephants have smaller ears and convex or level backs.

Elephants can be found in what kind of habitats?
A: Savannahs, forests, deserts and marshes.

Elephants prefer to stay near what?
A: Water.

Why are they are considered to be a keystone species?
A: Due to their impact on their environments.

Predators such as lions, tigers, hyenas, and wild dogs usually target only what?
A: Young elephants (or "calves").

Females ("cows") tend to live in what type of groups?
A: Family groups.

What does a family group consist of?
A: It can consist of one female with her calves or several related females with offspring.

Who leads the group?
A: The groups are led by an individual known as the matriarch, often the oldest cow.

Elephants have a fission–fusion society in which multiple family groups do what?
A: Come together to socialize.

When do the Males ("bulls") leave their family groups?
A: When they reach puberty.

Adult bulls mostly interact with family groups when looking for what?
A: A mate.

Calves rely on their mothers for how long?
A: As long as three years.

Elephants can live up to how old in the wild?
A: 70 years.