The exact reason for the decline in the 1950s is unknown as well. The Fish & Wildlife Services states that the eagles declined in the 1950s because of DDT. The problem with that statement is the fact that the bald eagle was recovering for many years before the nation banned DDT.
Elephants in the wild live to a range of 50 to 70 years. For well kept and fed animals in captivity, the oldest recorded is 82 years.
Elephants are the largest living land mammals. The largest elephant recorded was one shot in Angola, 1974. It weighed 27,060 pounds and stood 13 feet 8 inches tall. Their skin colour is grey. At birth, an elephant calf may weigh 100 kg. The baby elephant develops for 20 to 22 months inside its mother. No other land animal takes this long to develop before being born. In the wild, elephants have strong family relationship. Their ways of acting toward other elephants are hard for people to underst