Eli5: How are elephants able to consume enough calories when all they eat is leaves and vegetables and those have very few calories?

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Eli5: How are elephants able to consume enough calories when all they eat is leaves and vegetables and those have very few calories?

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They eat a lot of leaves, they have huge stomachs compared to carnivores and eat about 150kg per day or over 300 pounds of food.

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