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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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AnswerAfrican, Thailand, and Asian elephant habitat includes grasslands, marshes, forests, deserts, and mountains.
Herds wander continuously in search of food and water. They may travel 5,000 to 10,000 kilometers (3,100 to 6,200 miles) in one year within their home range, which may be over 1500 sq km (600 sq mi). mostly in Africa and India
Elephants live in parts of the Savanna. The Savanna's main regions are Africa, (Zimbabwe,) North and South America, Mid India and parts of Australia. Savannas cover 20% of the globe (not including oceans). The largest amount of Savannah is in Africa.
Africa and Asia.
What is an Asian elephants habitat?
Elephants are found in large numbers in Africa and South Asia. They inhabit the Savannahs of Africa and the dense rain forests of South Asia. Their natural habitat usually surrounds abundant water sources like lakes and rivers. They also prefer habitats with lush green vegetation and trees which they forage on. The Asian Elephant can be found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma etc
What do baby elephants look like?
Baby elephants, also known as calves, have a similar appearance to adult elephants but are smaller in size with oversized ears and a shorter trunk. They typically have fuzzier hair on their body, which will eventually become more sparse as they grow older. Baby elephants are very playful and can often be seen sticking close to their mothers for protection and guidance.
The mammoth is an extinct mammal that resembled modern elephants in appearance. They lived during the Pleistocene epoch and are closely related to elephants. Mammoths had long curved tusks and were adapted to cold environments.
Would an elephant weigh more or less on the moon?
An elephant would weigh less on the moon due to the moon's weaker gravitational pull compared to Earth. The weight of an object depends on the gravitational pull acting upon it, so on the moon an elephant would experience less gravitational force and therefore weigh less.
How many elephants can you fit in a mini?
you can't fit any in unless you use some pretty unsavory methods
How do African elephants protect themselves?
African elephants protect themselves from threats by traveling in groups for safety, communicating using infrasound to warn of danger, and relying on their large size and strength to deter predators. Additionally, they may use their tusks and trunk to defend themselves if necessary.
Where was elephant ivory first discovered?
Elephant ivory was first discovered in Africa, where it comes from the tusks of African and Asian elephants. Ivory has been prized for its beauty and durability for centuries, leading to extensive hunting of elephants for their tusks.
Can a crocodile kill an elephant?
Generally, the largest animals a large crocodile can take down are adult hippos: elephants are simply too heavy - African elephants are the heaviest things on land!
However, a group of 4 - 5 really big crocodiles could probably take down an adult elephant, and a crocodile MAY be able to take down a baby elephant.
Why does elephants large ears keep them cool in hot climates?
Their ears cool them because blood circulates through the ears and they flap their ears to create a breeze and the air cools the blood in their ears, thus cooling their bodies as the cooled blood from the ears circulates.
Are African elephants larger than other elephants?
African elephants may be more than twice as heavy as Asian elephants. Also an African elephant has much bigger ears then the Asian elephant. Some people distinguish African elephants into bush and forest varieties, and the forest ones are not as big.
What is the length of the foot of a fully grown male elephant in inches?
An elephant's foot generally measures 40-50 cm in length and width and has a circumference of about 1.34 m.
How do you measure a elephant in metric?
What is the difference between the Asian elephant and the African elephant?
some differences in African and Asian elephants is that: African elephants weigh up to 4000 - 7000 kg and have a height of about 3 - 4m, though Asian elephants only weigh about 3000 - 6000 kg and have a height of 2 - 3 and a half metres. African elephants skin is a lot darker and more wrinkled, where as Asian elephants have lighter and smoother skin. African elephants have a concave back, where Asian elephants have a straight or slightly humped back. African Elephants have a sloped head, with no bumps, bulges or denses. Where as Asian elephants have rounded heads with some bumbs and have a dint on the top of their head. African Elephants have larger ears with a size of 4m, and the ears cover its neck. Where as Asian elephants have smaller ears and it doesn't cover its neck. In African elephants, both male and female elephants have tusks, though male elephants tusks are larger. Though with Asian elephants, yes the males grow tusks as well, but the females don't. And if they do, they are barely visible anyways. Also on the end of a African elephants trunk, it has two fingers. Though Asian elephants only have one finger. ( These are true facts, I got them off my science teacher who specialises in differences found in similar mammals. )
How do African elephant migrate?
African elephants are known to migrate in search of food, water, and mates. They can travel long distances, taking advantage of various habitats along their route. Some populations in Africa, like the savanna elephants in East Africa, have been observed moving seasonally between wet and dry areas.
How long have elephants been on earth?
Elephants are members of the family Proboscidae and they are the largest animals currently living on land. They are well known and extremely popular among both children and adults, both as images and as real animals in zoos and wildlife parks. In many Asian countries, and some African ones elephant rides are a major attraction for tourists. The elephant is a commonly used symbol in industry and advertising and they are common characters in children's books.
Elephants are very successful animals and they have been around for a long time, the fossil record indicates that more than 300 species have walked the earth over a period of 55 million years. The first true known member of the family, and therefore the great-great ancestor of our modern elephants was Moeritherium. Moeritherium was about the size of a pig and it is believed to have lived in swampy environments.
The first proboscidean that actually looked resonably like an elephant occured about 35 million years ago and is called Paleomastodon. Paleomastodon was about the size of a cow and had tusks and a short trunk. Modern elephants, along with the recently extinct mammoths, only evolved about 5 million years ago. Since then elephants have evolved to live in many different habitats and their fossils have been found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica.
They have come in a range of sizes and shapes. Some have become dwarfed like Elephas falconeri whose fossil remails have been found on the islands of Malta and Sicily in the Mediterranean. E. falconeri stood only 0.9 m or 3 ft high at the shoulder. Going the other way we have Mammuthus trogontherii the Steppe Mammoth which lived in Europe before it became extinct and stood 4.5 m 14.75 ft high at the shoulder. In between we have numerous elephant species with strangely twisted tusks, some with 4 tusks, some with none, or their tusks devolved to flat teeth designed to work as a shovel.
Up until recently there was thought to be only two species of elephants living in the world today. The Indian Elephant Elephas maximus and the larger African Elephant Loxodonta africana. L. africana was believed to exist as two subspecies L. africana africana which lived on the Savannah and L. africana cyclotis which was smaller and lived in forests. Respectively they were known as the Savannah Elephant and the Forest Elephant. However in 2000 AD a DNA analysis of both the two subspecies of L. africana and E. maximus revealed that there were actually three species of elephant alive on our planet because the Forest Elephant was no more closely realted to the Savannah elephant than it was to the Indian Elephant.
However while ecologists have just got used to the idea that there are three and two not species of elephant a report by Lori Eggert of the University of California published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B recently suggests that there are five separate DNA lineages among the elephants of Africa, though they are making no statements concerning how many species this may mean there really are. We will have to wait for the final answer.
Elephants, as you might expect hold many reords in the animal world, for instance they have the largest teeth in the world. An Elephants tusks are actually modified incisors. They arise from the upper jaw and only 2/3s of them are visible because they are deeply embedded in the elephants skull. The heaviest pair of tusks, and therefore the heaviest pair of teeth of any extant (still living species) animal belonged to an African Elephant Loxodonta africana shot in 1897. One of the pair was slightly larger than the other but together they weighed 211kg or 465lb.
A single tusk from an unknown African Elephant weighed in at 117kg or 258lb Paris in 1900. This is the single largest tooth of a modern animal. Prehistoric records also go to members of the elephant family. The longest tusk ever found belonged to the extinct Palaeoloxodom antiquus germanicus, the Straight-tusked Elephant. On average this magnificent animal had tusks 5m or 16.5ft long. The heaviest tusks ever known belonged to the Colombian Mammoth Mammuthus columbi, these weighed 226kg or 498lb.
A single tusk from an unknown species that weighs 150kg or 330lb is preserved in a museum in Milan. If the owner of this huge tooth had two approximately the same size their combined weight would have been around 300kg or 660lb and thus far more than the Colombian Mammoth mentioned above. Tusks and extinct animals aside it is the African Elephant again who comes in as the winner in the largest teeth stakes. An bull African Elephant's molars can be easily be more than a foot long and weigh 4kg or 10lb.
Indian elephants are lighter and shorter thann their African cousins, however the African elephant is most easily recognised by their much larger ears. Human beings being what they are it is a point of historic recors that the longest known lived elephant, a female Indian Elephant called Modoc, was made to wear false ears when she starred in films set in Africa such as Daktari. She lived to be 78 years old, given that other female Indian elephants have been known to give birth at the age of 60, it is quite possible that less scientifically rigorous claims for Indian elephants living to be more than 80 are true.
Elephants are large animals that live in complex social groups, they need a lot of room to live happily and easily consume 100 kg or 220 lbs of vegetation a day. This combined with their ivory has brought them into conflict with humanity. The Indian elephant is relatively easily domesticated and there are historic records to show that elephants were used as beasts in agriculture and forestry in the Indus Valley civilization that thrived 4,000 years ago. The belief that the African elephant can't be tamed is not true, Hannibal used African elephants in his famous battles against the Romans 2,000 years ago. In the modern world they are not used anywhere near as extensively as their Indian cousins but they are used in some African countries, most notably in the Congo.
Elephants are relatively intelligent animals with good long-term memories. It is an unfortunate fact of life that in most, if not all, cases keeping domestic elephants totally disrupts their social lives and they do not breed well in captivity. Therefore most captive elephants are collected as young elephants from the wild.
Hopefully one day our species will learn to be a little more considerate of the feelings of others and animals like elephants will suffer less but for now this is the way it is. All three species are considered endangered with only 420,000 African elephants left most of which are L. africana africana and there are probably less than 60,000 Indian elephants left alive, one third of which are domesticated. In Africa elephants are most threatened by poachers who in the 1980s were killing 100,000 a year. Elephants breed slowly, and take many years to reach maturity. In India the main threat is habitat destruction.
I hope you have enjoyed this brief introduction to elephants. You will be able to access the following pages for more information as they are written.
Do female elephants have tusk?
Unlike Asian elephants, in which only males have tusks, both male and female African elephants are tusked. However, due to the hunting pressure on tusked animals brought about by poaching for ivory, tusklessness is an increasingly common condition in African elephants.
Both female and male African elephants can have rather large tusks. Female Asian elephants don't. :)
What is innate behavior in elephants?
Allowing themselves to be ridden. Using them to drag logs and plow.Using them as beasts of burden. Training them to perform in a circus.Adapting to the limitations of captivity, as in zoos or work camps.
How can you Describe elephant beetle?
The elephant beetle, also known as the Hercules beetle, is a large insect that belongs to the scarab beetle family. They are native to Central and South America and are known for their impressive size and distinct horn-like structures on their heads. These beetles play a vital role in their ecosystems by helping with decomposition and nutrient recycling.
Tusks are elongated teeth that are composed primarily of dentin, a hard tissue similar to bone, and covered by a layer of enamel on the outer surface. In some cases, tusks can also contain a small core of pulp, blood vessels, and nerves.
A white elephant is a albino elephant, so instead of grey, they are white in color.
A white elephant is a description given to something that is big, probably very expensive, and of no use to anybody.
