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An adult elephant can eat over 150 kg of vegetation a day

An adult elephant can eat over 150 kg of vegetation a day

An adult elephant can eat over 150 kg of vegetation a day

Bulk feeding drives the day: an adult may process well over 150 kg of leaves, bark, grass, and fruit. Digestion is long; appetite is constant.

As they feed, elephants topple trees, open clearings, and move seeds in dung — architects of habitat as much as consumers.

Eating that much is landscape work. One herd’s menu redraws which plants win and which animals follow the new gaps.

Shahzad Mahota Shahzad Mahota @shahzad-mahota

An adult elephant can eat over 150 kg of vegetation a day