Trivia

Girls Rule
Elephants live in a structured social order. The females spend their entire lives in tightly knit family groups made up of mothers, daughters, sisters, and aunts. These groups are led by the eldest female, or matriarch. Adult males, on the other hand, live mostly solitary lives. (Does this make Angie and Wendy the matriarchs of Ella Publishing Co.? Our condolences to Travis the Designer and Joe the Programmer.)
~source: Wikipedia

Look at You
Along with dolphins, apes, and humans, elephants are among the only animals known to recognize their reflections in a mirror.
~source: Scientific American online

My, You Have a Lovely Singing Voice
Elephants are capable of vocal mimicry. A 10-year-old orphaned elephant in Kenya, who lives in semicaptivity about 3 km from a busy highway, has adapted her call so it sounds like the moving trucks she hears on the road.
~source: Scientific American online

Have You Herd?
A group of elephants is called a "herd," a "parade," or even a "memory." We at Ella Publishing Co. far prefer to refer to ourselves as a "parade" rather than a "herd," for obvious reasons.
~source: San Diego Zoo and enchantedlearning.com

Labor Pains
Elephants are pregnant for nearly 2 years, the longest gestation of any land animal, and newborn elephant calves typically weigh 260 lbs. and stand just under 3 ft. at the shoulder. Two more reasons we're happy we're not elephants.
~source: Wikipedia

Tusk Appeal
Not all elephants have tusks, and it's not necessarily a male-female thing. In Asian elephants, only males have tusks, but both male and female African elephants are tusked. However, due to the hunting pressure on tusked animals brought about by poaching for ivory, tusklessness is an increasingly common condition in African elephants.
~source: african-elephant.org

Gettin' Trunky
The elephant's trunk has about 15,000 muscles, and it takes baby elephants quite some time to learn to master its use. The trunk combines both nose and upper lip and transforms them into a single powerful organ that is able to touch, grasp and smell. It is strong enough to uproot a tree, sensitive enough to pick up a pea-sized fruit from the ground, and long enough to reach foliage high in the trees. The trunk is also used to drink by sucking up water and squirting it into the mouth. Finally, elephants use their trunks for greeting, caressing, threatening, and throwing dust over the body.
~source: african-elephant.org
 

Quotes

"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me."
~Noel Coward, English playwright (1899–1973)

“It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us.
We can dodge an elephant, but we can't a fly.”
~Josh Billings, American Humorist (1818–1885)

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
~Groucho Marx, American comedian and film star (1890–1977)

"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent."
~Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Seuss Geisel,1904–1991)

“Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.”
~Jack Handy of Saturday Night Live Deep Thoughts fame