Sumatran elephant

Best feature
Secret tusks! Males rarely develop long tusks, while those of adult females may be so short that they are hidden by the upper lip.
Size
They are the smallest of the Asian elephants, measuring 1.7-2.6m at the shoulder.

Favourite food
They eat green vegetation, mostly bananas, ginger, young bamboo and the leaves of a number of vines.
Home
They can be found in lowland forest in Sumatra, western Indonesia, close to rivers.

Current population
Around 2,400 – 2,800 in the wild.
Biggest threat
Illegal poaching and habitat loss. The destruction of forest so that land can be used for farming instead is a particular problem.
That’s a fact!
They can eat up to 200kg of food a day – that’s about the same weight as 2 and a half adult men!

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