143K views · 3.8K reactions | Elephants love eating their fruits and vegetables, which helps them grow big and strong! One of their favorite fruits to eat is pineapple. Believe it or not, elephants can eat the entire pineapple: the fronds, the pokey exterior, and the juicy inside. Elephants eat all kinds of pokey foods, including blackberry here at the park and acacia trees out in Africa, which can have long thorns hiding among the delicious leaves. | Wildlife Safari | Facebook

37K views · 8.6K reactions | Elephants like to eat the whole fruit, peel and all!!    #Elephant #Animal #FreeContactCare #ElephantCaretaker | The Walking Elephant | Facebook

Mara demonstrates for us one of the ways that an elephant can eat a watermelon. Just like people, elephants have their own preferences when it comes to food and how it is prepared. With watermelon, some elephants try and shove the whole thing in their mouths, while others choose to step on it first, smashing it into pieces. For humans, I suppose this would be like eating by the slice or cutting it into cubes and eating it with a fork. And of course, preferences can change. When Mara first arrive