The elephant’s trunk can be a nose for smelling and also can be a hand that is used to pull grass, collect leaves, take a shower, carry a small elephant, show their emotions, drink water and others.

The elephant’s trunk contains a small muscle almost 40,000 muscles. Besides, there is a bone structure that is a branching sheet and various receptor cells that send the signal to their brain.

Due to the trunk having 40,000 muscles, the elephant’s trunk can move in any direction in terms of use at the end of the trunk to pick up small coins and also use the trunk to lift heavy objects up to 270 kilograms.

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Because elephants are animals that can not tolerate heat very well. Moreover, the elephant has black skin, which many people know that black is the best color that absorbs the heat. From the research, it is found that the black surface when reflected sunlight is reflected only 5%,  and absorbed up to 95%, which is absolutely different from the white surface which is reflected 95% and absorbed only 5% of the heat.

Therefore, the large black elephant can absorb a lot of heat from sunlight. While elephants are animals without sweat glands, so the elephant bathing is crucial as it will help the elephant to cool off the body temperature. Moreover, The mud applies to the elephant’s body is like applying sunscreen which will protect its skin from Ultraviolet (UV)

Visit us to help elephants relieve the heat and join the activity at our sanctuary. There are various activities for you to relax such as walking with elephants, feeding elephants, mud spa with elephants, enjoy bathing with elephants and others at the krabi elephant house sanctuary 

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However, we still operate the morning program and late program as usual, but we have to limit the visitor maximum to only 20 people per round.

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An elephant is Thai national animal and has been long associated with Thai life, especially in ancient times.

Besides, an elephant is a one of protector of Thai independence and they are Thai symbols which Thai people believe that elephants are a symbol of strength, durability, and longevity. Thus, many places in Thailand were decorated with elephant symbols such as temples, theme parks, houses, and even famous Thai drinks.

Therefore, Thais appointed elephants to be Thai national animals, which on March 13 of every year will be Thai Elephant Day as an honor of the elephant and let Thai people turn their attention, help, and preserve the elephants. Krabi elephant house sanctuary invites you to conserve an elephant along with us.

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1. Elephants have a period of pregnancy around 640 – 660 days, for a total of 95 weeks or twice as long as a human pregnancy.
2. Elephant’s dung can be used for many purposes, such as using mosquito repellent, stationary, and biogas renewable energy from elephant dung.
3. The elephant’s brain weighs more than 5 kilograms, which is the largest of all the animals. Moreover, they can remember more than 30 elephants, and they also have an EQ equal to a chimpanzee.
4. Elephant’s ears are able to use as a cooling device from the body and also can repel insects.
5. Elephants can smell water sources that are further than 19.2 kilometers.
6. The elephant has sweat glands at the base of the nail. Thus, when it is hot, the nail will be getting wet.
7. There are a total of 6 molars that rotate throughout their life.
8. The trunk has 100,000 muscles, which can lift up to 270 kilograms.
9. The elephant has color blindness for green and red color, which they can only see yellow and blue.

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it is quite the same as human behavior including their love, gentleness, fast learning, great memory.

How do elephants use various organs in their lives?

• The elephant trunk is like the nose and hands of elephants for breathing, holding, pulling, lifting, dragging objects and picking food into their mouth, even using a water spray to shower yourself. The elephant trunk is boneless, so it is sensitive and easy to swing.
• Ivory used for digging, moving trees and making a symbol on a tree to show their area.
• Elephant eyes are very small compared to elephant height which their eyes can see a long distance.
• Elephant ear is used to blow away the heat from the body and is also used to swing for repelling insects around them.
• Elephant tail has feathers for brushing insects.
• Most elephants have 18 nails which are divided into 5 nails at both front feet on each side, and 4 nails at both back feet on each side. Some elephants have 20 nails, most of them are white elephants which are very rare.

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Asian elephants have a height of around 2 – 3.5 meters with a weight of about 2,000 – 5,000 kilograms. They have smaller ears than African elephants. The tusks are large in males and females do not have tusks, but If anyone has tusks, there will be only small tusks called “Kha Nhai”. Asian elephants eat 200 kilograms of food per day which most of the food is fruits, bamboo, bananas. They are more docile than African elephants. Therefore they are often used as a practice in dragging wood,  acting in a circus, and battle in the war in the past.

African elephants live in Africa and live in an area that is mostly sparse forest. The African elephant is approximately 3 – 4 meters tall and weighs around 4,000 – 7,000 kilograms. The ears are larger than an Asian elephant and there are both male and female tusks. They eat about 75 – 150 kilograms per day in which most of the food is fruits, grass, and fresh leaves.

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The elephant’s ears act as the auditory sensory system.

They can hear sounds that are too low frequencies than humans can hear in general.

The elephant’s ear is directly related to the body’s temperature cooling.

The ears of Asian elephants and African elephants will differ in size because African elephants live in warmer climates than Asian elephants,

so they need larger ears to help control the temperature.
Elephants can ventilate heat from the body by flapping their ears in order to help the cold blood in the body circulate to other spots.

Elephants often like to spray water in their ears for cooling the blood before the temperature in other parts of the body goes down.

In addition, the ears of elephants can also be used to intimidate enemies,

which will show its ears appear larger when an elephant faces an enemy.

We can all be a part of helping elephants. Please try to come and visit Krabi elephant house sanctuary for a once in your life.

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Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus is a type of virus, which can cause a highly fatal hemorrhagic disease when transmitted to young Asian elephants which can found in elephants between the ages of 0-9.

The symptom of this disease is the elephant will unable to use the trunk like usual, their tongue and neck are swelling including around the eyes.

The disease can rapidly affect elephant health and Elephants will be sick and die within 2-3 days.

Thus, Krabi Elephant House Sanctuary is constantly following and observing elephant infections. We have a team of doctors who regularly check the health of our elephants.

**Contact the veterinarian immediately when the elephant has symptoms like this
**Do not let the disease kill any elephants.

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