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Elephants are herbivores, but human remains have been found on at least one documented occasion. The exact reason as to why an elephant would eat a human has not been proven.

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They do cause in Chinatown its green and elephants live there and eat the cheese out of the Chinese bottoms.

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they have to to survive. they are a bigger animal so they must eat more

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