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Baby Elephant Walk. Baby Elephant Walk is a song written in 1961, by Henry Mancini, for the 1962 released movie, Hatari!. In 1962, the song earned Mancini a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement. The tune was written for an impromptu scene in Hatari! in which 'Dallas' (Elsa Martinelli) led three baby elephants to a pool to bathe.
An Asian elephant is pregnant for 645 days while an African elephant is pregnant for 640 days. But it can be 21-23 months long. An elephant has the longest gestation period of any land animal, at 22 weeks. An elephant calf can weigh up to 260 pounds! An adult African elephant can weigh more than 15,000 pounds. http://answers.ask.com/Science/Other/how_long_are_elephants_pregnant_for. The gestation period of an average elephant is 22 months, or 630-660 days. The elephant has the longest gestation period of any mammal.