World Elephant Day: Funny Baby Elephant Photos and Fun Facts To Make You Smile

Celebrate World Elephant Day with a joyful gallery of funny, heart-warming baby elephant photos and engaging, bite-sized facts about these gentle giants. Learn how calves play, bond with their herd, use trunks cleverly, and grow into guardians of their ecosystems — all paired with adorable images to delight animal lovers and inspire conservation.

Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. (Photo Credits: Pexels)
Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom, lasting about 22 months. (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
An elephant’s trunk has 40,000+ muscles for strength and flexibility. (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
Elephants can recognise themselves in a mirror, showing high intelligence. (Photo Credits: Public Domain Pictures)
They communicate using infrasound, which can travel several kilometres. (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
Elephants mourn their dead and have been seen performing burial-like rituals. (Photo Credits: Pexels)
Elephants are excellent swimmers and can use their trunks as snorkels. (Photo Credits: Pixabay)
Their large ears help them regulate body temperature in hot climates. (Photo Credits: Pickpic)
No two elephants have the same ear shape — it’s like their fingerprint. (Photo Credits: Pexels)

They can eat up to 150 kg of food and drink 200 litres of water daily. (Photo Credits: Flickr)

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Aug 11, 2025 01:40 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).

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