# What Color Are Elephants? **URL:** \ **Category:** Articles\ **Created:** [November 26, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://howtodiscuss.com/t/what-color-are-elephants/30704 "2020-11-26T21:20:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
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Elephant are the largest living mammal on land found in Africa and South Asia. They are huge and powerful, wild creatures living in forest and grasslands. They have different colors depending on their habitat. ## What are Elephants Elephants belonging to family Elephantidae class mammalian are largest living land animal. They are characterized by long trunk, columnar legs, and huge head with wide, flat ears. They are mostly found in savannas, grasslands and forests however they can occupy a wide range of habitats including deserts, highlands and swamps in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and Asia. ## Characteristic Features of Elephants Elephant tusks are enlarged incisor teeth made of ivory, having long trunk, columnar legs, and wide, flat ears. In the African elephant both the male and the female possess tusks, whereas in the Asian elephant it is mainly the male that has tusks. ## How Elephants Eat Food An adult elephant consumes about 100 kg of food and 100 liters (26 gallons) of water per day. They eat by detaching grass, leaves, and fruit by using the end of the trunk to place this vegetation into their mouth. The trunk is used also to collect dust or grass for spraying on themselves, most likely for protecting themselves against insect bites and the sun. Elephants migrate seasonally according to the availability of food and water. ## Historical Importance and Endangered specie Historically elephants are symbols of power and pageantry used mostly in logging operations and military battles; with passage of time now being replaced by machinery. Threatened by loss of habitat and poaching, Asian and African elephants are listed as endangered species. The population of Asian and African elephants is rapidly falling as a result of commercial demand for ivory. ## What Color are Elephants Elephants are gray to brown in color, and their body hair is sparse and coarse. The natural colour of elephants is **greyish black** , but an elephant usually appears to be of the same colour as the soil where the elephant lives. --- _[View the full topic](https://howtodiscuss.com/t/what-color-are-elephants/30704)._