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Asian elephants are smaller because their jungle habitat makes being large a disadvantage.

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What is the difference between a n Asian elephant and an African elephant?

An Asian elephant has noticeably smaller ears than an African elephant. Also, African elephants are usually bigger than Asian elephants.


Where do Asian elephants come from?

Asian elephants are very alike to African elephants. Asian elephants have smaller ears. African elephants have huge ears. Asian elephants live in Asia, and are smaller than African elephants. African elephants live in Africa. However, they are usually the same color and they both have tusks made of ivory and a trunk for a nose. Now you know how to tell apart African and Asian elephants! There are only between 41,410 and 52,345 in the wild.


Do African elephants have bigger tusks than Asian elephants?

Yes, African elephants typically have larger tusks than Asian elephants. African elephants, both males and females, have longer tusks that can reach the ground, while Asian elephants, particularly females, have smaller tusks that are less prominent.


Are afrian elephants the largest than Asian elephants?

African elephants are larger than Asian elephants.


African elephants are larger than Asian elephant?

Yes, african elephants are slightly larger than asian elephants. Male African elephants reach about 4m whereas male Asian elephants reach 3.5m.


How are Africa elephants different than Asian elephants?

African elephants are significantly larger than Asian elephants, and their ears are much larger than those of an Asian Elephant.


Are African elephants larger than Indian elephant?

Indian elephants have smaller ears, and African elephants have larger ears. I also think that the African elephants tusks might be a bit larger than the Indian ones. This answer is not completely accurate, but the Indian elephants do have smaller ears than African.


What makes an African elephant different from an Asian elephant?

The most telling difference is the size of their ears and the presence of tusks. African elephants have much larger, more rounder ears than Asian elephants do, and tend to be able to have tusks more often. Asian elephants, on the other hand, have much smaller and more square or triangle-shaped ears (which ever shape you prefer) than African elephants do. A tusked Asian elephant (called Tuskas) is more rare than an Asian elephant with no tusks.


Do african elephants have bigger ears than asian elephants?

Yes.


Are there different kinds of elephants?

There are three species of elephant alive today. Two, the African bush elephant and the African forest elephant, live in Africa. The third, the Asiatic elephant, lives in rainforests, woodlands, and savannas of southern Asia.


What is the different between an African and Asian elephant?

There are many differences between African and Asian elephants. Firstly, Asian elephants have more hair, they have a hump, their trunks have three fingers, and African elephants have two. Also, African elephants ears are the shape of Africa, and Asian elephants are smaller and the shape on India.


African elephants are larger than Asian elephants true or false?

True! African Elephants have bigger trunks, tusks, ears and other cool things bigger than Asian elephants. It is quite neat!!