Thanks for taking our Elephant Facts & Myths Quiz! You’re pretty smart, so if you want to check your answers here they are:

How many species of elephants are there?

·      One: All elephants are the same species

·      Two: Indian and African

·      Three: India, African, and Pygmy

·      Three: Asian, African Savannah, and African Forest
There are approximately 500,000 African Savannah elephants and 130,000 African Forest elephants left in the world. How many Asian elephants remain?

·      15,000

·      200,000

·      50,000

·      100,000
Elephants are pregnant for how many months?

·      9

·      12

·      14

·      22
True or False: If we stopped all poaching, elephants are safe from extinction.

·      True

·      False
What is NOT a form of Human-Elephant Conflict?

·      Crop Raiding

·      Seed Dispersal

·      Train collisions

·      Retaliatory Killing
Elephants can make which of the following kinds of sounds:

·     They only trumpet

·     Purr and Trumpet

·     Rumble, Trumpet and Chirp

·     Purr, Chirp, Trumpet, Rumble, Roar
True or False: Elephants communicate using sounds too low for humans to hear.

·      True

·      False
Elephant tusks are what kind of teeth?

·      Incisors

·      Molars

·      Canine

·      Premolars
True or False: Elephants can be “left-tusked” or “right-tusked,” meaning they favor one tusk over the other—much like people being left- or right-handed.

·      True

·      False
What statement below is factual?

·      Elephants cannot jump.

·      Elephants cry.

·      Elephants are afraid of mice.

·      Male elephants lead the herd.
True or False: Elephants can swim for several hours and use their trunks as snorkels while submerged.

·      True, in some cases they swim up to 30 miles.

·      False

For us, every day is Elephant Appreciation Day. From their incredible presence to the impact they have keeping their ecosystems healthy to their special ability to inspire people to care, let us not rest until we secure a safe sustainable future where elephants thrive!

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