This is the largest land mammal in Kenya. The elephants are very social animals and live in herds of even over a hundred elephants. There life spun is around seventy years. The males are the leaders in the unit and there chief role is to protect the herd from lions, cheetahs and other predators that can target especially the calves. They are purely herbivorous and eat a lot of vegetation in a day. The elephant's gestation period is three years. They sire a calf and very rarely twins after this period of time. The female elephant reaches puberty at the age of thirteen years.
Today only the African Forest, the African bush and the Asian Elephant exists. Incase a mother passes away and leaves behind a lactating calf, the calf is taken care by the other members of the herd and suckled by various females in the herd. The elephant has a very good memory and can remember incidents that happened to it even fifty years down the road. It can also remember human beings who have been around it even if they part for many years.
They are also very emotional animals and the death of close relatives deeply affects them. Even when one of the herds is injured, the others are affected by it and they take turns taking care of the wounded. Poaching was a major problem in Kenya and as a result the number of elephants greatly reduced. Today it has stabilized as poaching was banned. Elephants were poached for there tasks which were sold in the Asian countries for medicinal values.