Sixteen to eighteen hours, or nearly 80% of an elephant’s day is spent feeding. Elephants consume grasses, small plants, bushes, fruit, twigs, tree bark, and roots.
Tree bark is a favorite food source for elephants. To supplement the diet, elephants will dig up earth to obtain salt and minerals.
Due to their large size they can get food from the ground all the way up to high areas of trees. They can even use their trunks to reach fruits growing up there that other types of animals simply can’t reach.
They are very intelligent when it comes to getting food as well. They aren’t going to walk away and leave that food source for other animals that come along.