| Show elephants mature at 20 can do 20 0 MPH on run people of burma say an elephant is old is born with his wrinkled skin and wobbling movements the life span of the elephant is 75 years maturity is reached at 20 years or less and the animal begins to show signs of age at 40 the trunk of the elephant is a tube of muscles divided by a middle partition and bearing at the end projections that may be used similarly to fingers and thumbs elephants make lov love a by wrapping their trunks around each other suggestive of th eman ema n ner der in which human beings hold hands while the elephant can neither run trot gallop nor jump his shuffling gait can be stepped up to 20 miles an hour |
