Q.Why do newborn elephants weigh so little?

By the way, the largest elephant ever recorded weighed 12,000 kilograms, or nearly 26,500 lbs.

Actually, I won't claim to even KNOW what an elephant weighs and then claim bkac errors.

Its famous rogue elephant, "Romeo", stood 19 feet high, and weighed 10,500 pounds.

(By comparison, a large African elephant weighs about 16,000 pounds.)

An elephant is born after nearly 22 months of gestation and weighs about 200 pounds.

How much does an adult, male, African elephant weigh?

It was not a good comparison: a gigatonne is 1 billion tonnes and elephants do not weigh 300-400 tonnes.

An elephant weighs a lot more than a person, but its feet have more surface area than the pointed heel of a shoe.

How much does the elephant weigh?