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Summary: Elephants travel in herds across long distances to find water and food, but young males will leave the herd when they reach the age of 12 years old. Explore the elephant's traveling habits with information from an animal behavior specialist in this free video on zoo animals.
Gary Wilson acted as the director of the Exotic Animal Training and Management Program at Moorpark College's Teaching Zoo from 1985 to 2000. He graduated from Moorpark College, Exotic...read more
"Hi, this is Gary Wilson at America's Teaching Zoo at Moorpark College. Elephants travel long distances each day. The main thing that they have to find everyday is water and of course and they drink at least once a day. And so sometimes they have to go quite a distance. They're also looking for food of course. Elephant may eat as much as three hundred pounds of food in one day. So they've got to move around quite a bit to find that food. While they're traveling, they move in this herds which were made up of females and youngsters. As a elephant grows up, if he's a male and gets to be about twelve years old, he leaves that herd and goes off and lives with other males or by himself. And he'll find an area that he, that will provide the food that he needs while the females stay together being led by the, often the oldest female in the troupe; the matriarch; oldest female in the herd and she will decide where the herd goes and leads them to different places to feed and to find water."
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