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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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Who takes care of the young African elephants?
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The Zoo keppers that where the elephant live in the zoo everyone should know that
What do American elephants weigh?
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No such species as an US elephant.
Weight will be determined by species - African or Asian, gender, age, growth and health.
Nationality isn't a deciding factor.
What do circus elephants eat?
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They are usually fed hays of different kinds and fruits and vegetables.
What are the problems in the zoo for an elephant?
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Elephants are really big so they need a lot of space. Some of the cages in zoos don't have enough space for an animal. Elephants also drink and eat a lot which costs money to buy supplies for them.
Those are the big main problems.
What is the volume of an elephant?
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Depends if they have their period or not or if they have donated blood in the last 24 hours
How long does a baby elephant feed from its mum?
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a elephant feeds off its mum for 11 years :)
How do elephants and rhinos which do not have any hair keep themselves warm?
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They live in a tropical climate. I don't think they have a problem staying warm. They sometimes have a problem cooling off.
How tall is an Indian elephant?
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Male Asian Elephants stand at around 10 to 11 feet tall at their shoulder. Female Asian Elephants stand around 7 to 9 feet tall. Weight wise, they weigh somewhere between 2.7 tonnes to 4.5 tonnes. Adult Tuskers can even cross this 4.5 tonnes weight. African Elephants are much taller and heavier than Asian Elephants
What is the function of the tail of the elephant?
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it helps the animal balence when running or doging or while climbing a branch or tree...!
Is a motherless calf called a doggie?
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a dogie, just like in the "Rawhide" theme song
Which is the smallest elephant in the wild?
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The Bornean pygmy elephant was, but it's now extinct, and that leaves the Asian elephant the smallest.
Elephants never grow exponentially because their rate of reproduction is so slow?
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True.
What elephant cannot do with its trunk?
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Elephants cannot do sit-ups with their trunks. They cannot sing opera with their trunks. They cannot pilot airplanes with their trunks. They cannot perform brain surgery with their trunks.
Is a elephant a exoskeleton?
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Ostriches, like all other birds and indeed, like all other vertebrates, have an endoskeleton, meaning an internal skeleton, rather than an exoskeleton or shell. Insects have exoskeletons. Birds don't.
What are the similarities between the Asian and African elephant?
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Size
The African elephant is significantly larger with bulls growing up to 4m tall whereas the biggest Asian males reach no more than 3.5m.
Weight
Adult African elephants weigh between 4,000-7,500 kg. Asians 3000-6,000 kg.
Head Shape
African elephants have fuller more rounded heads. The top of the head is a single dome whereas Asian elephants have a twin domed head with an indent in the middle.
The lower lips of the two species also differ being long and tapered in Asian elephants and short and round in Africans.
Size of the Ears
It is said that you can tell where an elephant comes from by looking at the size of his ears. African ears are like a map of Africa and Asian ears smaller like the shape of India. African ears are much bigger and reach up and over the neck which does not occur in Asian elephants.
Skin
African elephant's skin is more wrinkled
Ribs
In general African elephants have more ribs than the Asian though the number of ribs varies in individual animals. African elephants have up to 21 pairs, Asians up to 20.
Tusks
All African elephants, male and female whereas only some male Asian elephants have tusks. Africans generally have the bigger tusks. About 50% of female Asian elephants and a small percentage of males have small tusk like teeth known as tushes.
Teeth
The lamella profile along the top of the molar teeth of the two species is different with ridges on Asian's teeth being more tightly compressed.
The Trunk
The African elephant's trunk is visibly more heavily ringed and is not as hard as the Asian trunk.
The trunk tip is a major difference between the species. The African trunk has two distinct fingers which it uses to pick up and manipulate objects. The Asian elephant has only one 'finger'. The Asian compensates for this by holding objects against the underside of the trunk and appears not to suffer from any lack of maneuverability.
Toenails
Toenails in the two different species of African elephants vary. As they do between the African and Asian elephants.
African forest elephant 5 nails on front feet 4 on the back
African savanna elephant 4 nails on front feet 3 on the back
Asian elephant 5 nails on front fee 4 on the back (rarely 5)
Diet
Although both species of elephant eat a wide variety of plant matter, in genral term the Asian elephant's diet is made up of a greater proportion of grass and the African's of leaves.
Do elephant eat there own poo?
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What r u on about! If you eat elephant poo I would stop now if I was you!
