Elephants are large mammals well known for their intelligence and caring for each other. Elephants cry and laugh and are the largest animals that live on land. Elephants live long, between 60-70 years and the females have a gestation period (it is the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside a female viviparous animal) of 22 months which is the longest of any land animal. Elephant's musk has more than 100,000 muscle units and elephant poops around 80 pounds a day. It is known that elephants take a great care over dead bones of their family members. However, the idea of secret "elephant burial grounds" is nothing more than a myth. Interesting elephant fact is that periodically male elephants go through musth (Hindi for 'madness'), sometimes spelled 'must' in English or extremely aggressive sexual behavior. Musth in Persian means "intoxicated" and it is recorded that male elephant in musth has 60 times higher level of testosterone than in the normal elephant. Elephant male in the musth will kill and destroy everything in his path.
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