And I was trying SO hard to make my first five posts nothing but quality posts . . . . then I found this thread.
Elephants can "hear" low frequency sounds through their feet up to ten miles away. They can also communicate with each other, much as whales do, via subsonic vocalizations. (Thank you, National Geographic.) Elephants, like chimpanzees, pass the "mirror test" by being intelligent enough to figure out that the mirror is just a reflection of themselves and not another elephant. And while their brain is a bit small for their size, at the size of a football, it's still the largest land animal brain. And lastly, while I don't remember the exact numbers, an elephant's trunk has some 44,000 muscles in it. This is approximately 43,000 muscles more than the entire human body.
A freshly fertilized ostrich egg, at nearly one quart, is the largest single cell in the world.
Well, there went my bid to make nothing but quality posts. [wry grin]
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