Why have elephants got 4 feet.?

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

Why have elephants got 4 feet.?
They need one for every leg.
Reply:me no no.
Reply:A 4 feet what??? Willie, ears, truck?
Reply:So they can walk and crush people who ask stupid questions about why they have 4 feet.
Reply:To walk around and play with their elephant friends.
Reply: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.
Reply:Because if they had 3 they would fall over, %26amp; f they had 5 tigers would laugh at them, also the big %26amp; GREY.
Reply:Because...


a) God made them that way


b) They evolved that way


c) Cuz they can





Pick one
Reply:they would look silly with five
Reply:4 feet? or 4 feet of what?
Reply:because if they only had three they would fall over
Reply:I give up , why?
Reply: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.
Reply:have u tried holding all that waight on 2
Reply:why?....(awaits the punchline)
Reply:emmmm......i don't know... *waits for some kind person to shed a little light*
Reply:Q. Why do elephants have four feet?


A. Because lady elephants have big tw*ts.
Reply:You tell me.
Reply:To stop them falling over!
Reply:so they don't overbalance.
Reply:hmmmm.....





so they can do jumping jacks
Reply:its hard to dance when you are that big with only 3 feet
Reply:look at this


http://www.optical-illusionist.com/galle...
Reply:Because they born like that!:)