What do elephants like to eat?
Elephants are herbivores, and their main food is all kinds of grass. According to statistics, elephants have 130 kinds of food. Among them, the common plant species are mainly bamboo, plantain, elephant grass, Broussonetia papyrifera, fern, reed, and planted corn and sugarcane.
What fruits and food do elephants like to eat?
Elephants like bananas, peaches and watermelons best. The daily food of elephants mainly includes grass, grass roots, tree buds, shrubs, bark, fruits and vegetables. Drink 30 to 50 gallons of water every day.
Elephants consume at least 140 kg of food a day, so they are not too picky about the quality of food. However, in the case of abundant vegetation, elephants still prefer the crops with rich flavor planted by human beings.
For captive elephants, corn stalks, sorghum stalks and sugarcane are all very popular feeds.
Therefore, for elephants living near human settlements for a long time, after tasting the taste of crops, they will not have much attachment to wild food.
But the elephant's nose and mouth are very sensitive, so it is not interested in hard and prickly plants. This is the case with their African compatriots. Acacia is giraffe's favorite, but elephants seldom care about it, mainly because it has too many thorns on it.
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