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"I never forget a face. I grieve my dead. I communicate through vibrations in the ground. I am the largest land animal on Earth. What am I?"
Answer
An Elephant
Explanation
Elephants have remarkable long-term memories, recognising other elephants and humans years later. They display grief behaviours around dead companions. They communicate via infrasound — low frequency vibrations that travel through the ground over long distances.
This is an easy riddle in the Nature category — Riddles about the natural world, animals, weather and geography.
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