Elephants | Colors Of Nature

Fun Facts Friday: Elephant Diet! Elephants are herbivores who eat 100 to 200 lbs of plant material each day. In the wild they spend close to 20 hours a day searching for, selecting, collecting and eating a wide variety of live vegetation. Young elephants learn from their mothers and other elephants what is good for them to eat. African elephants browse, eating mostly grasses in the wet season, adding leaves, twigs, tree bark and branches in the dry season. Asian elephants graze, eating a range o

Natural Food Sources of Wild Elephants The natural diet of wild elephants consists primarily of a wide variety of plant species found within forest ecosystems. Their food sources can be categorized as follows: 🌿 Main Types of Food Leaves and Twigs (Browse) Leaves from large trees such as fig trees, dipterocarps, and rosewoods Tender branches, bark, and young shoots These are major food sources, particularly for Asian elephants living in evergreen and mixed deciduous forests. Grasses Cogon grass