Why is a baby elephant called a calf?

Answer 1

An adult male is called a bull, to suggest the strength of the animal. It follows that an adult female is a cow, and babies are calves.

Answer 2

Could It be that a male elephant is called a BULL.
A female elephant is called a COW.
So it's only common sense that a baby elephant is called a CALF.

Answer 3

A calf (plural calves) is the young of an animal. The term is mainly used for cattle, although whales, dolphins, giraffes, bison, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, yaks and elephants also have calves.

A cattle calf is the offspring of a cow and a bull. A calf that has lost its mother is referred to as a dogie. Calf meat is called veal; fine calf skin used for pages in early codexes is called pergamon. The fourth stomach of slaughtered milk fed calves is the source of rennet. Calves feed from their mother's udder for a few weeks before eating solid food.

Answer 4

because the male is a bull and the female a cow. and a baby cow is called a calf. so is a baby whale.

Answer 5

A puppy does not sound right!

However, it's mother is known as a "Cow", it's father a "Bull" so the child is a calf.

Answer 6

Don't really know must be the same reason male elephants are bulls and females are cows

Answer 7

Maybe because an adult male is a Bull Elephant and an adult female a Cow DUHHHHHH!!!!!!

Answer 8

because the daddy elephant went up to mum and said what you screaming for and she said fu calf.

Answer 9

I don't think there actually is an answer for this, It just is.

Like, I thought it was also weird that a baby rabbit is called a kitten...

Answer 10

Offspring of a bull and a cow!