Elephant Travel Bug

To travel to as many caches as possible.

(This TB was missing for over a year and has been replaced with the help of “Free replacement tags for missing Trackables by Exman.”  A new life has been issued allowing this TB to travel again.)

It is now a different elephant attached to Exman's wooden nickel.

There are two types of elephants, the Asian elephant and the African elephant.  Sometimes the African Elephant is split into two species, the African Forest Elephant and the African Bush Elephant.  Elephants are the largest land-living mammals in the world.  Both female and male African elephants have tusks, but only the male Asian elephants have tusks.  They use these tusks for digging and finding food.  An elephant can use its tusks to dig for ground water.  An adult elephant needs to drink around 210 litres of water a day.

Female elephants are called cows.  They start to have calves when they are about 12 years old and they are pregnant for 22 months.

The elephant's trunk is able to sense the size, shape and temperature of an object.  An elephant uses its trunk to lift food and suck up water than pour it into its mouth.  Some scientists believe that an elephant's trunk is made up of 100,00 muscles, but no bones.
Female elephants spend their entire lives living in large groups called herds.  Male elephants leave their herds at about 13 years old and live fairly solitary lives from then on.

Elephants can swim & use their trunks to breathe like a snorkel in deep water.  Elephants are herbivores and can spend up to 16 hours a day collecting leaves, twigs, bamboo and roots.