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Greetings, fellow elephant lovers! Today is world elephant day and I wanted to share some fun facts with you about these beautiful animals while showing some video footage from my personal experiences.

I'm often asked "what's your favorite animal?" and always say "it depends which I'm standing in front of. If I'm standing in front of an elephant, it's an elephant. If I'm standing in front of a manatee, it's a manatee."
Well, turns out there's good reason for my love of both of them...they're actually related. Yep that's fact #1 for you.

1. Elephants are related to manatees
2. Elephants have around 150,000 muscle units in their trunk
3. And those tusks on their side of their trunk are actually teeth! They are technically large incisors.
4. There are three different species of elephant – the African Savannah elephant, the African Forest elephant and the Asian elephant.
5. They create their own sunscreen! By rolling around in mud or throwing mud or sand on themselves they protect their thick skin from the sun's rays.
6. Their communication is complex. Not only do they vocalize, but they can also communicate through sounds that create vibrations in the ground, they may detect through their feet.
7. Speaking of feet - they walk almost silently! Even the largest elephants, up to 13,000 lbs can be hard to hear coming. Due to their anatomy, not only are they practically walking on tip-toe at all times, they also have soft padded feet.
8. Their ability to be silent means they can easily wander through farmland at night. One neat innovation being used to ward off elephants from trampling crops is using capsaicin as a deterrent, since they are very sensitive to the smell & feeling.
9. Another project being used to ward of elephants from crops is bee hives! Elephants hate bees!
10. Around 90% of African elephants have been wiped out in the past century - largely due to the ivory trade.

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