Yes. Years ago I went to a tug of war contest at a circus. It was a radio promotional. I was dumb enough to get inside the loop at the end of the rope. They requested there be 400 men to pull the elephant. Well there wasn't, instead about 40 men and 150 woman and children showed up. Since I was at the end of the rope I could move around from side to side and see the elephant, and its trainer. Well I really had never put any thought into just how strong a elephant was, but I certanly shoud have. the trainer would spank the elephant on the rear to make it go forward to make us think that we were pulling it. Then he would go around to the front of the animal and spank it in the nose to make it walk backwards. Well to make a long story short, the elephant got tired of this and went out of control. It turned around and bolted off at top speed. Like I said earlier I was in the loop at the end of the rope, I went sailing through the air and through the crowd hurting many people including children. I will never foget that. So my answer to your question is this, YES ELEPANTS CAN WALK BACKWARDS.
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Um, sorry to burst your bubble, but no. Elephant can press their heads to the ground with all fours on the ground as well, but cannot stand on their heads, for the weight of their bodies would crush there heads...
Technically, no.
However, elephants do communicate through subsonic vibration in the ground which they pick up with their feet. Those vibrations through the feet can mean many different things to an elephant.
Tigers (and all other cats) are "digitigrade," meaning basically that yes, they walk on their toes. The joint in a standing cat's leg that's roughly halfway between the body and the ground corresponds not to the human elbow or knee, but to the human wrist or ankle.
Tigers will normally put the rear foot in place where the front foot was. Their gait is the same as all cats, a gentle rolling stride.
on four legs
Five toes on each foot. It is the weird dangly thing on the left side (If it is the right paw). If it is the left paw it's on the right side.
elephants do walk on their tippy toes. the skin over their toes makes them look like they are walking normally.
in the 17th century, elephants have been known to ride a human racer in the dead of night under a blue moon next to a safarri with a pink dress on. RIP tupac
An elephant can use a low sound that is so low we can't even hear it
African elephants have 4 toes on their front feet and 3 toes on their back feet.
Elephants are known to be the largest land animals, with adult African elephants reaching heights of 10-13 feet at the shoulder, and adult Asian elephants reaching heights of 8-10 feet at the shoulder.
Both whales and elephants can hear extremely low frequency sounds.
Male African elephants stand at around 10 to 13 feet tall at their shoulder. Female African elephants stand at around 7.2 to 8.5 feet tall at their shoulder. Their Asian counterparts are around 1 - 2 feet shorter than them and weigh a few thousand pounds lesser than them. Though the African females are known to weigh approximately the same as their Asian counterparts, African Bulls are known to be much heavier than their Asian brothers.