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What is the typical gestation length of the type of animal elephant (the large grey mammal with a long trunk)?
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Elephant gestation periods are 22 months, almost two years.
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The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth, an ... four-legged creatures are well into a gallop, even accounting for leg length.
For example, a cat's gestation normally takes 58–65 days while an Elephant's takes 645 days. However, growth does not necessarily determine the length of gestation for all species ...
Owing to individual variability in gestation lengths (±46 days in the Asian and ±16 days in the African elephant; Meyer et al. 2004), the time of ovulation cannot be accurately ...
The gestation periods of other animal reveals that the length of the gestation period is largely a matter of the animal specie's size. Asian elephants have a gestation period of ...
The length of pregnancy, or gestation time, can vary between 21-23 months. The following images take you through the stages of one Asian elephant birth.

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