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A black and rufous sengi, also called an elephant shrew. It's got a mouselike tail, a black body, a reddish head and a long proboscis nose. License: Joey Makalintal from Pennsylvania, USA. CC BY 2.0
Did you know elephants are more closely related to elephant shrews (sengis) than shrews are? #elephacts
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ok this is going in the #elephacts tag, but just know that it makes me super sad. content note for grief, hat tip to Hannah Fry and #TheRestIsScience
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Six elephants sleeping close together on the ground. Two are adults, and the other four appear younger, with the smallest curled fully into the space between its mother's front legs. from drone footage, Reuters. China, 2021
Elephants sleep only a few hours a night - sometimes they use their trunk as a pillow! elephantguide.com/en/how-do-el... #Elephacts
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Subsonic elephant communication!
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This is some quality #Elephacts, i'm so happy about it!
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Schreger lines in a mammoth tusk: overlapping V shaped lines in a greyscale cross-section like an x-ray
#Elephacts time! The cross-section of an elephant's tusk shows something called Schreger patterns, which can "yield a finely graded, even daily, impression of age and growth patterns", revealing "changes in climatic conditions, food and habitat." Wylie, D. (2008) Elephant. 1st ed. London: Reaktion.
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Photos of an elephant spraying itself with a yellow hose. Text reads: "Body part specific tool use. Water hose used as shower head. Lasso-like hose use to reach back. Bystander hose clamping" - this last image shows a second elephant gripping the hose in its trunk.
Elephants can use hoses to intentionally shower different pets of themselves, and can prank each other by constricting the water supply! #Elephacts
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#Elephacts time: Elephants are scared of bees! both Asian AND African, although the African elephants react more strongly. The Elephants and Bees Project uses hives to work as a deterrent, like a fence, keeping our pachyderm pals out of areas where they'd get into trouble.
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elephants have a dominant tusk, it tends to be slightly shorter due to getting more use #elephacts
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Did you know that "to see the elephant" was American slang in the 1830s? It meant to be experienced, worldly-wise, to have LIVED. #Elephacts
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Did you know male elephants go into a phase called must / musth ( from the Urdu / Persian for 'intoxicated'). It's basically Pon Farr for elephants! They secrete temporin from their temporal glands, become aggressive and horny, and there's evidence it happened to mammoths too! #Elephacts
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Did you know that there are two separate species of african elephant? there's the savannah, or bush elephant, and the forest elephant. The forest elephants are smaller, and their tusks are straighter, whereas savannah tusks curve outward. that's all for tonight, thank you for your time #Elephacts
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Did you know elephants tend to be left- or right-tusked? they'll use that one more often and it tends to be shorter as a result! #Elephacts
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