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lizbulgarelli
lizbulgarelli asked in Science & MathematicsZoology · 1 decade ago

When elephants give birth, do they lay down ? or squat? or just drop the calf?

Update:

its for my niece

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  • gottabuylots
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    They drop the calf..

    Lol to the Ex wife comment though.....

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    with out question squatting opens the pelvis and is a organic position for pushing + pressure of gravity. besides the indisputable fact that, medical doctors interior the medical institution want the lithotomy position (on your decrease back, legs up like a malicious program) and once you've an epidural that's precisely the position you'd be.

  • fankhauser
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    How Do Elephants Give Birth

    Source(s): https://owly.im/a0soH
  • deegeesqueegy
    1 decade ago

    Well elephants have no knee joints so if they fall they can't get up. Elephants squat and birthing usually takes about 2 hours

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  • nursesr4evr
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    They just drop it.

    Source(s): Saw it on a TV show.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Thats a good question b/c I have no idea!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Ask my ex-wife.

  • YourDreamDoc
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    they basically stand

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