Facts Quest

Quick facts about Elephants *An elephant's trunk is actually an extended nose and upper lip.An adult African elephant's trunk is about two meters long. *Elephants uses trunks for smelling,touching,grasping,collect food and water,breathing,and even hurl objects. *Elephants can suck 7.5 liters of water into its trunk at a time. *Elephants will use their trunk to make loud trumpeting noise, in case,if it is threatened and give warnings to other elephants. * Elephants are fond of water and enjoy showering by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves. Afterwards, they often spray their skin with a protective coating of dust. *The trunk contains an estimated 100,000 muscles and tendons in the trunk, giving it extreme flexibility and strength. *Asian elephants have one finger—like projection at the tip of the trunk and African elephants have two. These finger—like projections are used for grasping small and delicate objects. *

Tiger is the most ferocious, popular and charismatic megafauna in the world .The magnificent tiger is one of the most powerful predators in the world.   T9UG9UXHDYUW *Tigers are the largest members of the cat family. *The scientific name for the tiger is Panthera tigris. *There are five subspecies of tiger: Bengal, South China, Indochinese, Sumatran, and Siberian.Since the 1950s three subspecies of  tiger—Caspian, Bali, and Javan—are extinct.The five remaining species are also endangered due to poaching.They have been pushed to the edge of existence through hunting and habitat loss. *It weighs up to 363 kilograms, stretches 6 feet long, and has a 3-foot- (1-meter-) long tail. *A tiger retracts its claws as it walks, leaving no claw marks in its tracks. *A tiger's mighty roar can be heard as far as two miles (three kilometers) away. *Tigers are good swimmers and can swim upto 6 kilometres. *Tigers are carnivorous and they hunts for prey primarily by sight and sound.