{"id":126,"date":"2020-08-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gradyvet.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2022-08-23T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:39:40","slug":"happy-world-elephant-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gradyvet.com\/blog\/happy-world-elephant-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy World Elephant Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>August 12 is <a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/worldelephantday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Elephant Day<\/a>, set apart to celebrate, learn about and help elephants. There are two species of elephants, African and Asian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meet the Asian Elephants of the Cincinnati Zoo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cincinnati Zoo is home to four Asian elephants. Females Jati, Schottzie and Mai Thai live together in Elephant Reserve. Bull elephant Sabu lives in his own yard. Blogger Shasta Bray wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cincinnatizoo.org\/2013\/07\/10\/elephant-name-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">great article<\/a> on telling all four apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"374\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gradyvet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-21-at-2.33.39-PM.png\" alt=\"Sabu\" class=\"wp-image-128\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"263\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gradyvet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-21-at-2.33.52-PM.png\" alt=\"Jati\" class=\"wp-image-129\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"241\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gradyvet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-21-at-2.34.00-PM.png\" alt=\"Schottzie\" class=\"wp-image-130\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"249\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gradyvet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-21-at-2.34.08-PM.png\" alt=\"Mai Thai\" class=\"wp-image-131\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4 Elephant Fun Facts from the Cincinnati Zoo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cincinnatizoo.org\/animals\/asian-elephant\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cincinnati Zoo&#8217;s elephant page<\/a> has interesting and useful information. Here are 4 fun facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An elephant drinks up to 40 gallons of water (enough to fill a bathtub) and eats several hundred pounds of food each day.<\/li><li>Since they don\u2019t sweat, elephants flap their large, thin ears to cool down the blood vessels across the ear, which then circulates throughout the body.<\/li><li>An elephant essentially walks on tiptoe since the foot bones rest on a cushiony pad of fatty tissue, a built-in shock absorber.<\/li><li>Elephants communicate through sound from the loud, well-known trumpeting to infrasonic calls that humans cannot hear.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Can You Help Elephants?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldelephantday.org\/take-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gradyvet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-21-at-2.26.06-PM.png\" alt=\"Be Elephant Ethical\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gradyvet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-21-at-2.26.06-PM.png 876w, https:\/\/www.gradyvet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-21-at-2.26.06-PM-768x679.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/worldelephantday.org\/take-action\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visit World Elephant Day&#8217;s Take Action page<\/a><\/strong> to learn more about raising awareness and helping elephants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 12 is World Elephant Day, set apart to celebrate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,25],"tags":[72,71],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pet-friendly-holidays","category-great-outdoors","tag-animal-celebration","tag-elephants"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy World Elephant Day | Grady Veterinary Hospital<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 12 is World Elephant Day, set apart to celebrate, learn about and help elephants. 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