Elephants

There are those who believe that decorative images and pictures of elephants depicted with there trunks turned upwards are considered lucky. I do not know for certain, but I do not think the opposite is true.

There are three species of elephant, the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant . The biggest noticeable difference is that African elephants have much bigger ears than there Indian counterparts.

The offspring of a donkey and a horse is known as a mule. Becaus ethey are hybrids, they usually can't re-produce. This does occasionally happen, however. I know that it has happened a few times in the Grand Canyon!

an average elephant is about 500 inches [THIS IS NOT RIGHT!]

The average weight for a male elephant (bulls) is 4.4 tonnes. The weight of the female elephant (cows) is 4.1 tonnes. A new-born baby elephant weighs about 125 kgs or the same weight as 3 ten year old children.

In some cases, elephants have caused damage to farms that were built in their traditional habitats. This has led to controlled hunting, but also to relocation.

In many cases they are killed for the ivory in their tusks, which is still a valuable commodity in the Third World despite modern alternatives.

A female elephant is called a COW

The male a BULL

The young are Calves

A wild boar [Sus scrofa] gets tusks as of the age of two years old. In the male, the upper tusks are hollow and serve as sharpeners for the lower tusks. In females, there's only the lower tusks. But regardless of the gender of the boar or the number of the tusks, boar tusks are sharp.

A trunk.

enough to drink make you pee a lots of water can do the trick

In the desert elephants must be opportunistic. They rely heavily on grasses, especially the roots as a staple of their diet. They will eat other plants when available near water sources or when they spring up after rare rainstorms.

Elephant calves weigh around 250 pounds and stand at around 2.5 feet tall at birth. They grow both in size and weight very fast. By the end of a year, they are taller by a few feet and weigh around 1000 pounds or more

YES

but it is very difficult, you need to drink more then 10 liters per hour for several hours. you will probably throw up way before it becomes a problem. drinking too much water often occers when you drink alcohol as well as take extacy, the combination scrambles up your body heat control and body temp' can rise to leathel levels. in an atempt to reduce the temp one might drink too much water which can dilute the blood, damage the stomach and in extreme cases kill you.

If they digest all the food they can eat, I think I know how to help! Elephants can eat up to 150-270 kilograms of grass & leaves per day!! And 20-800 liters of water per day!! That food finding can take up to 10 hours of searching, or roaming around for about 12 km!!

Elephants have gestational periods like almost all egg bearing mammals. Although elephant periods are prevalent they do not have kinky kinky. The reason for this is the loss of stinky pinky in the pancreas.

Elephants use their ears to cool themselves down by flapping them to create a fan against their skin. This 'fan'cools the blood closest to the skin which is then carried throughout their body to cool the rest of themselves.

A African male elephant can reach up to 7 ton or more while Indian elephants are smaller with a weigth of ~ 5.5 ton

the heaviest elephant ever weight in was 12 ton

Up to 15.67 feet long longer than the average elephants trunk

The order under which Elephants are classified is the Proboscidea. This is for one of the elephant's most interesting physical features. It is something that attracts curiosity from around the world for elephants along with many other aspects in the past only ascribed to the human, such as, rudimentary tool use, complex social behaviours, and reverence for a dead family member or friend. It is their trunk or proboscis; the meaning of Proboscidea species is simply animals with trunks/proboscis.

Henry F. Osborn identified some 352 proboscidean species and subspecies of which only half are recognized and valid today. About 50-60 million years ago, the ancestors of the modern elephant occupied a variety of extreme environments; this includes from tropical rain forests to deserts in both low and high altitudes. Incredibly, with the exception of Australia and Antarctica, the proboscideans have over time inhabited every single continent on Earth. Why did all but two become extinct? One possible explanation for their disappearance may be found in the inability of the order to evolve to environmental change fast enough. One of the determining factors in this is the more specialized a particular genus of animals, then the more likely they they will become extinct in periods of dramatic climate and environmental change. Both of the surviving African and Asian elephants have a wide range of attributes which give them the ability to survive and to even thrive in mild to extreme environmental conditions. Obviously, this is probably not the only reason for the disappearance of most of the order, but serves as a good generalization for a reason why the multiple families of the order disappeared over time.

The family Elephantidae is the root from which the mammoth, Asian elephant, and African elephant came from. Interestingly, the Asian elephant is more closely related to the extinct mammoth than to the African elephant. The following categories apply to the tree in which the elephant has been placed. It is part of the Animalia kingdom, Chordata phylum, Vertebrata subphylum, Mammalia class, and Proboscidea order.

It is believed that 50-60 million years ago, mammals approximately the size of current day pigs, were the roots from which the proboscideans evolved from. Interestingly, based on both morphological and biochemical evidence, it is agreed that the manatees, dugongs, and hyraxes are the closest living relatives of the today's elephants. It is incredible to believe given the vastly different sizes, external appearance and the fact that they occupy completely different habitats.

The earliest known member of the Proboscidea order are the Moeritheres. They are a pig sized creature that lived in northern Africa between 55 and 60 million years ago. A little later the Palaeomastodons, who existed between 40 to 25 million years ago. branched off and were the first know descendants of the lineage that let to the two present day species of elephants. Interestingly, the mammoth, Asian elephant, and African elephant originated in Africa. It was only the African elephant that ended up staying and evolving to the animal we know today solely in Africa. The mammoth became extinct as recently as 5000 years ago; fossil records indicate that the hunting by Man was a factor in eliminating the mammoth, as well as global warming

Yes elephants use their tusks to fight against predators.

ADDENDUM:

Elephants have a variety of defense mechanisms. Because they are highly intelligent, they know that the best defense is a good offense, and they will go on the attack.

Their huge size alone is a deterrent and combined with their weight, both can be used as formidable weapons. They kick and strike with their feet; one blow can easily kill a predator. They also will crush an enemy to death by kneeling on it or stepping on it with a foot.

Elephants have used their long trunks for weapons and are deadly accurate with them. One strike can completely disable a predator.

If a lion or lions has managed to get on the back of an elephant, elephants will whirl and create a centrifugal force that dislodges the predator from their back and, if close to water, will use water both to prevent attacks from the rear or to retreat into.

When you add tusks into the equation, only the most daring of the largest predators, with sufficient numbers, would undertake such a dangerous feat.

Elephant calves use their mouths to suckle. They look strange, because they must curve their trunks back along their foreheads to get their mouths close enough to the mother's teats to suckle.

Water I think I don't know what other seals drink either

females travel in groups while males travel alone once they get old enough to mate

Elephants can't swim through the ocean for any great distance, so they couldn't get there by water in more modern times, and no Filipino rulers from olden times cared to import them, I guess. It takes a lot of food and territory to keep an elephant happy.