Elephants

Hundreds of thousands of elephants have been killed over the past century by trophy hunters and ivory poachers. Approximately 100 years there were 5 to 10 million elephants that roamed the Savannah of Africa and today there are only a few thousand of these magnificent species left in the jungles of Africa.

in zoos and similar the elephants can be trained to step onto a vehicle scale.

The one way, would be to put the elephant into a pond full of water and collect the overflow of water, and the amount/weight of water displaced 435will be the weight of elephant.

He may have been killed, or died a natural death.

The elephant is a vegetarian that eats grasses, shrubs and bushes, and even strips vegetation and bark from trees. It also needs to drink lots of water, and in the dry season, it must often struggle to maintain its health or even to survive. It might be found on open grassy plains or in a landscape dotted with those shrubs and bushes mentioned, or hidden in amongst groves of trees.

Yes, elephant is a common noun.

Yes it is the reason why most of them are killed, not only that but they may also die because of loss of food or by health reasons. The most important reason is because their tusks get chopped off and an extremely big amount of blood pours out until they die or it stops by a blood clot.

they don't use shelter they walk and walk they sleep a very little bit

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pygmy elephants can be less than 5 feet tall!!!!!!!!!! but adults are normally 5-6 feet so cute

African pygmies are typically around 1 pound and as long as a dollar bill.

elephants and rhinos use them as scratching posts

every 22 months

The reason why dogs and birds pant through their mouths and elephants flap their large ears, is to control (reduce) their temperature.

Some animals can sweat through their skins and cool themselves as this sweat evaporates from their skin.

However, dogs, birds and elephants (and perhaps some other animals) can not sweat so they either evaporate water in their mouths or pump blood into their 'radiator' sized ears to cool themselves.

It would be hard form them to bath, drink, and eat since they do all of those with there trunks. They suck up water to hose themselves down. They suck water up their trunks and shoot it in their mouths to drink. They also pick up their food with their trunks also.

In India and Pakistan elephants are captured and trained as work-animals (as horses are in Europe).

The African elephant cannot be tamed (no native African mammal can be domesticated).

No. Elephants are great big animals and are far too large to live in a burrow. They do not have the means to dig holes in the earth. Elephants do Not live in burrows. They live in open spaces above ground.

The killing of African elephants for their ivory began as early as man could safely kill them. It was not until the 1970's that there was a sharp increase in demand.

It is important because elephants have terrible hearing and the same as smell. The only thing they can rely on is their eyes and conscious. Most of the time they will mistake younger children for wild animals as predators. Maybe a child would be pointing at the elephant and the elephant might try to protect his own young ones. It is normal for an animal to get nervous when people are paying much attention to him / her.

They have different reproduction organs, and the females tend to be smaller than the males. The females and their young live in groups together, lead by an older female, which the males live alone except during the breeding period.

On average an elephant can drink 60 to 120 liters a day. ( liters is very close to quarts ) An elephant can eat 200 to 300 kilograms a day. (~ 440 to 660 pounds )

they are up to 400 pounds

I assume you mean the tusks, which are teeth adapted into protruding forward from the mouth. The tusks are used to dig for roots, and as a weapon when bulls are contesting who will mate with the cow elephants in a herd.

Kerala, Jharkhand and Karnataka all three states have Indian elephant (Elephas maximus) as their State Animal.