#elefactfriday

It’s once again EleFact Friday and this week we’re revisiting gorgeous elephant eyelashes. Elephant lashes serve many of the same purposes as human eyelashes, but they are longer and therefore more protective of the eye. Not only do elephants hold the record for largest land mammal, but they also have…...

One of the first things that people think of when they think “elephant” is tusks. It’s iconic when it comes to elephant imagery, but female Asian elephants don’t actually have tusks. Many of them have short tusk-like protuberances that seldom grow many inches below the gum line. The longer the…...