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8 Jun, 9 tweets, 3 min read

If anybody wants to see how elephants sleep. PC BBC.

These are the elephants from China about which I shared recently. They are 15 elephants which have walked 500 km. The herd was seen resting near a village in Xiyang township after heavy rain slowed down its travels.

Complete details here.

bbc.com/news/world-asi…

Elephants have only two jobs; eat & sleep. They sleep heavily. They snore a lot.

Most of the time one among herd remains awake as a guard, mostly bull.

Now in India maize & monsoon is here. Elephants will stay on forest boundaries. In day they will sleep & in night will raid.

#Elephants are interesting. At 2-3 PM will get up & start roaming for food. Raid fields in night & early hours. Then will sleep & snore like humans. Bull become the watcher for herd. Some 30 sleeping & 70 including staff are making it sure nobody disturbs. (Diary- 15/1/2019)

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These elephants are like those college kids. They sleep as sun rises. Have lunch in evening. And then keep roaming whole night here & there. (Diary - 12/1/2020)

https://twitter.com/ParveenKaswan/status/1271320510987558912?s=20

Not always sleep like that. This look cute so shared. They sleep in standing position mostly.

When I see they have only two jobs; sleep & eat. It doesn’t mean they do it half - half. They sleep for short time. But all remaining time they eat.

Never seen an Ele not eating.

They don’t have an efficient digestive system. So they need to spend all time in eating.

They look heavy but they walk a lot. That is why called as long ranging animals. A herd can walk 20 km a day. Presence of kids reduces the speed though.

And why they are long ranging. I want to think it shows how intelligent they are. Imagine a herd of 50-60 residing in same area. They will finish all.

They want to utilise resources sustainably. And in that journey they keep spreading seeds.

As I say forest walk with elephants.

During this journey of these elephants.

Sixteen animals were originally in the group, but the government says two returned home and a baby was born during the walk, news agency AP reported.

The real backpackers.

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