Elephants eat grass, roots, bark and fruit. They also eat twigs and small plants.
Elephants use their trunks and tusks to help them feed. Bark is a very important food source for elephants as it contains both fiber and calcium. They use their tusks to strip the bark from trees. Tusks are also handy for digging roots and other food out of the ground.
Elephants spend up to 80 percent of their days eating. An adult elephant can eat over 300 pounds of food in a single day.
Elephants use their tusks to dig minerals such as salt from the ground. They use these minerals as nourishment.
