why have elephants got 4 feet.?

Answer 1

because they'd look daft with 6 inches . Boom Boom!

Answer 2

Elephants have 4 feet because there ancestors evolved to have 4 feet.

Legs and Feet
An elephant's legs are great straight pillars, as they must be to support its bulk. The elephant needs less muscular power to stand because of its straight legs. For this reason an elephant can stand for very long periods of time without tiring. In fact, African elephants rarely lie down unless they are sick or wounded. However, Indian elephants lie down frequently.

The feet of an elephant are nearly round. African elephants have three nails on each hind foot, and four on each front foot. Indian elephants have four nails on each hind foot and five on each front foot. Beneath the bones of the foot is a tough, gelatine-like material that acts as a cushion or shock absorber. Under the elephant's weight the foot swells, but it gets smaller when the weight is removed. An elephant can sink deep into mud, but can pull its legs out readily because its feet become smaller when they are lifted.

An elephant is a good swimmer and climber, but it can neither trot, run, jump, nor gallop. It has only one gait, a sort of gliding shuffle, which it can step up to the speed of a human sprinter. There are few animals that can travel farther in a day then the elephant.



Did you know?


Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia. Elephantidae has three living species: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant (until recently known collectively as the African Elephant), and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant). Other species have become extinct since the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago.

Elephants are mammals, and the largest land animals alive today. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kg (265 lb). An elephant may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. It was male and weighed about 12,000 kg (26,400 lb).[1] The smallest elephants, about the size of a calf or a large pig, were a prehistoric variant that lived on the island of Crete until 5000 BC, possibly 3000 BC.

Answer 3

Because they are greedy. When the Good Lord was handing out feet, the elephants asked for four instead of the regulation two, that's why.

Answer 4

To walk around and play with their elephant friends.

Answer 5

4 feet? or 4 feet of what?

Answer 6

Q. Why do elephants have four feet?
A. Because lady elephants have big tw*ts.

Answer 7

So they can walk and crush people who ask stupid questions about why they have 4 feet.

Answer 8

Because if they had 3 they would fall over, & f they had 5 tigers would laugh at them, also the big & GREY.

Answer 9

its hard to dance when you are that big with only 3 feet

Answer 10

A 4 feet what??? Willie, ears, truck?

Answer 11

To stop them falling over!