Elephants are pretty amazing.

Here are a few reasons why:
-They are self-aware.  Just like people.  This quality has only represented itself in humans, apes and bottle-nose dolphins.  (And elephants).
-They have matriarch-led social networks (as opposed to those led by a patriarch). 
-They bury their dead (with branches).
-They tend to devote 45% of their sexual activity to other elephants of the same gender.  :-O
-They sometimes 'listen' by putting their trunks to the ground.

A few other facts:
-Gestation often takes up to 22 months.  (>.< So glad I'm not an elephant).
-Their hearing receptors are located not only in their ears, but also in their trunks.
-The word 'innervated' can be used to describe their trunks and feet.  Innervated.
-There are three different species of elephant.  Two of which are commonly referred to as the African elephant.
-Cross breeding African elephants and Asian elephants is generally a bad idea.
-Asian elephants have more toes than African elephants.
-They can't trot, jump, or gallop.
-They are really big.

Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants#Intelligence