How to pronounce “african elephant” in English

roughly the size of your little finger, it could support about 60,000 newtons of force.That's the weight of a fully grown African elephant.And that's not even the strongest spider silk out there.

Which do you think has more heartbeats over the course of its entire life?Well, an African elephant has around a billion heartbeats in its lifetime, and an Etruscan shrew also has a billion heartbeats in its lifetime.What about a wallaby?

The shrew's 1200 beats per minute multiplied by a lifespan of around 1.5 years gives you around 950 million heartbeats in the course of the shrew's life.Meanwhile, an African elephant's 30 beats per minute multiplied by a lifespan of around 65 years gives you a little over a billion heartbeats.And we could keep going.

The tensile strength of super glue can be upwards of 25 mega pascals, which is similar to other polymers, meaning a square patch just fivecentimeters on a side could suspend a fully grown African elephant.But super glue also has its weaknesses.

And you do see this in nature.A shrew only lives for one to two years in the wild while a mighty African elephant can live up to 70 years.So if you're a small mammal, you have many heartbeats per minute, but you live a relatively short life.

Essentially overnight, because of all the publicity and the awareness, the market in the United States and Europe, which were significant markets, collapsed completely.And for about 15 or 20 years, the African elephant was actually doing fine.It was actually recovering.

- So is a T. rex bigger than an elephant? That'd be fair to say?- Yeah, I mean, a very large savanna African elephant is five to six tons, and we're looking at seven plus.And a biped and a carnivore. So yeah, you know, a big lion. A big lion is 200 kilos. So 430 pounds. Yeah.