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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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What animal eats Indian elephants?

Excluding the fact that humans used to eat elephants, the only modern animal that ever eats adult elephants is the lion. However, lions, hyenas, and possibly even leopards could kill a young elephant calf.

Who would win a fight between an elephant and a mammouth?

A elephant would kill the grizzly bear because it can stab the grizzly bear with those tusks.
that may be true but also the grizzly bear is moreaggressive and if the elephant gets scared all it can do is charge forward or run away

How big is an African Elephants ear?

African Elephant's ears are 42 in. (107 cm) in diameter. Indian elephants have smaller ears.

They keep the elephant cool. Elephants' ears are thin-skinned and rich in blood vessels. The ears of some African elephants are nearly 2 meters long and almost as wide, much bigger than those of Indian elephants. When an African elephant waves its ear flaps, it can lower the temperature of the blood flowing within them by as much as 5 degrees Celcius. Indian elephants are essentially creatures of shady forests. They don't have to endure the high temperatures that African elephants encounter on their sunburnt grasslands, so they do not need such large ears.

How much does an Asian elephant eat of a day?

A elephant can eat all dayif it wants to. An African elephant in the wild can eat about 770 pounds of food in a day. A elephant in the zoo can only eat about 150. An asiatic elephant can eat about 650 pounds in a day.

Where can you find drawings of elephants?

Google images has very nice photos of baby elephants. Bing images also offers pictures of baby elephants. Use the query term "Baby elephant" in the search box and you should have no problem finding some pictures.

Does elephants thick skin help them to survive?

yes because if they get attacked they can get cut and maybe the skin is just thick enough for their organs not get slashed

What are the similarities and differences the extinction of mammoths and the possible extinction of Asian elephants?

This is a difficult question to answer because nobody knows for sure why mammoths became extinct.

However, one hypothesis is that human activity (particularly over-hunting), was responsible for the extinction of mammoths, and Asian elephants are also threatened with extinction largely due to hunting. Another possible cause of the mammoth's extinction was habitat loss because of climate change. Habitat loss also effects Asian elephants, but for them, it is due to deforestation caused by humans.

Note that there is one thing that all extinctions have in common. Extinction occurs when a species is unable to adapt to some change in the conditions of their environment. This may be climate change, habitat loss, the disappearance of their food supply, or even the appearance of a new species that over-hunts them, etc.

How does the elephant adapt to the deserts?

Elephants need massive quantities of food, perhaps 136-159 kg (300-350 lb) a day, although proportional to their body-weight elephants eat less than mice. The diet of elephants includes roots, bark, grass, leaves, berries, seedpods, and other fruits. In the savanna they are very lucky, as grass is an "indestructible" plant which can survive even the toughest conditions and grow very quickly, meaning there is always a food supply available. They have large ears to help them fan down and a trunk to help them store water to cool themselves either when really hot or whilst having their "bath" Debo =D

How much does a elephant weight?

An adult elephant weighs 9,000 to 13,000 pounds

What are some advantages of cloning extinct mammals such as the mammoth?

You can clone them if you have the DNA and a suitable host mother a close match to the original species. It would be exciting to see a live mammoth...

The biggest advantage to bringing animals back would be to fill niches in the ecosystem that they once inhabited. There are many ecosystems around the world where extinct animals have left holes in the ecosystem which mean that it ceases to function properly. One such instance in the eradication of the large predators in the UK.

Many of these holes could be filled by reintroducing animals from otehr parts of their range where they still exist.

Animals such as the mammoth (more possible as they tended to die in extremely cold places so often some genetic material is left in the body) could be reintroduced into Siberia to fulfill the niche that they evolved to fill

When was it illegal to hunt for ivory?

It is and has been illegal to hunt Elephants for Ivory. Poaching for Ivory has been one of the main reasons for the rapid decline in the population of elephants in the wild. All nations have put a ban on elephant hunting and it is illegal to hunt elephants.

Is elephant a vertebrate or invertibrate?

It has bones or else it wouldn't be able to stand. It's a vertebrate.

Why does an African elephant have horns?

Elephants don't have horns, they have tusks. The tusks can be used for fighting, and to knock trees over to get to edible leaves and branches.

Which animal lives the longest an elephant bears or tortoises?

Tortoises can out live most animals including the elephant and bears, it can also live to 150.

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Where do elephants get there leaves and grass and plants from?

Elephants are herbivores and so they rely on plants for their energy/nutrient needs.

What is the minimum weight for a elephants calf?

== == An elephant calph is around 250 pounds or 115 kgs in weight when born.
The weigh of an elephant at birth can vary from 117 to 330 pounds (53 to 150 kilograms), with the average weight being about 232 pounds (105 kilograms).
A baby elephant weigh at birth is 117 to 330 pounds (53 to 150 kilograms); average 232 pounds (105 kilograms) and the trunk is too short. http://www.milestoneinternet.com/
After a twenty-two-month pregnancy, a mother elephant will give birth to a calf that will weigh about 113 kg (250 lb).
around 1000 pounds
Around 250 pounds or 115 kgs when born.

Who are poachers?

Poachers are people who illegally hunt, eat, fish, and trap animals and plants.

What is a animal that is older than elephant?

an aardvark is older than most elephants but some elephants grow older than they should to be so yea aardvarks are older than elephants

What do you call a male elephant?

Male elephants are called bulls, females are cows.