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Elephants
The largest land mammal on earth, elephants are divided into African Elephants and Asian Elephants. African Elephants have tusks and larger ears than Asian Elephants, and questions about all elephants should be asked in this category.
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Were can you buy an elephant shrew?
Elephant shrews are not available for purchase in any legal setting. In many places they are either illegal to have as a pet, or a special permit is required. On top of this, they do not make good pets because they are very shy and do much better in their natural habitat.
What do you say your biggest contribution to your department?
During a job interview, when you are asked about your biggest contribution to your department, it is not the time to be modest. Be proud of your accomplishment, and give the interviewer details.
Elephants don't eat seeds they eat fruits, tree leaves and grass. (the grass is occasionally)
How do Africans live and work?
for the africans they are used/they adapt themselves to such a climate from birth like how plants get adapted to their surroundings(example:cacti).for us we may feel how do they survive but they will feel how do we in other parts of the world survive.
Which country is called white elephant?
Thailand is famous for its white elephants. They can occur anywhere.
an elephant fish is an underwater elephant with a horrible complexion. an elephant fish eats nothing it likes to starve itself.
Is an elephant a INVERTERATe or verterate for kids?
It is a "vertebrate" because it has vertebrae which are the bones that protect the spinal cord.
Are pink elephants actually a real animal?
Pink elephants are not real. you might dream of elephants being pink when your are sleeping.
Why aren't elephants smarter than humans?
Because they have no ability to think and act as humans.
Answer:
The intelligence of elephants is well known. Their brains are as complex and larger than those of humans. They exhibit many traits of human intelligent behaviour:
- grief
- learning
- allomothering
- mimicry
- art
- play
- a sense of humor
- altruism
- use of tools
- compassion
- cooperation
- self-awareness
- sense of family and tribe
- memory
- language
The question is then"Are they smarter than humans." which presupposes that humans are the benchmark of intelligence. In that elephant intelligent behaviour exceeds human behaviour in many aspects in that they:
- don't kill or murder
- are loyal
- can survive without technology
- don't steal
- care for their ill and aged
it may be that they are smarter than humans.
How did Parbati Barua save the elephants?
ON MARCH 6, 2003 all of us came to know what Parbati Barua had done. It made sensational news: she had - sin of sins - killed an elephant. As with any news flash, the context was made invisible. In September last year, 40 elephants strayed into Chattisgarh from Orissa and Jharkhand. Now they had to be handled. The state government earmarked Rs 36 lakh to catch 4 elephants. Parbati Barua was given that task (the media hailed her; she was "elephant queen'). By the time she managed to catch one, 30 people were killed and crops worth thousands of rupees were destroyed.
Parbati Barua stands at the intersection of a larger predicament. Ask: what is it that does an elephant in? Here, we deal with still unresolved answers. Those tossed or trampled to death are, of course, victims. More difficult to understand is that the elephant is also an unwitting victim. The elephant merely walks through what its memory tells is forest. It no longer is. The forest that was has become cultivation, or a village. The elephant doesn't know - cannot know - mindless forest degradation in the name of development. We can always sit and argue about where the fault lies. Meanwhile, elephant and human being stand at the forest fringe, trumpeting and panting in battle fatigue.
How to save both elephant and people? One way is to remove the elephant from the conflict zone. How? Use the traditional system, or chemically immobilise and so capture it In the end, there will be a captured elephant. Now what? Where would this elephant be removed to? Another patch of degrading forest? Near another village? Once captured, the elephant can be domesticated. Put to some use. What use? Earlier elephants logged timber; this is now a banned option. Domestic elephants and their owners today are jobless, or used for illegal felling. Could they be traded? No; that's banned, too. Perhaps laws and new capacities of use could be created, then. But that's a bureaucratic procedure, not a real solution at all.
How long were the big tusks of mammonth?
The tusks of woolly mammoths could grow up to 15 feet (about 4.5 meters) in length. These impressive tusks were used for various purposes, including foraging for food, defending against predators, and in social interactions. The size and curvature of the tusks varied among individuals and species, with some even exhibiting a spiral shape.
Is an Elephant large because it has large cells?
No, an elephant is not large because it has large cells.
What is the name of an elephant rider?
check it out, but I think it is a mahout. I know mahout's take care of elephants in India and other places in Asia, but I think the term extends to an elephant jockey.
What was the best/worst white elephant gift you've ever gotten?
A few of my favorites were: a wall clock in the shape of a bowling pin, a gigantic box of grapefruits, and a set of brain specimen coasters.
