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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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How tall can a large bull elephant be?

Male African elephants stand at around 10 to 13 feet tall at their shoulder and weigh between 10000 to 13000 pounds

Female African elephants stand at around 7.2 to 8.5 feet tall at their shoulder and weigh between 4500 to 7000 pounds

Their Indian counterparts are around a feet or 2 shorter than the African elephants and weigh approximately a 1000 pounds or more lesser than them.

What do you call a male adult elephant?

a bull elephant is 2 foot bigger than a cow elephant

Why are elephants flat-footed?

Elephants essentially walk tip-toed and the rest of the foot is made up of fatty-fibrous tissue. This tissue acts as a shock absorber, which also helps to muffle sound, and the shape of the foot makes it relatively easy for elephants to walk in mud. I can only assume the 'flat shape' evolved to accomidate the elephants weight.

Are elephant tusks hollow?

Yes, some tusks are hollow; and no, some aren't. For example, the tusks of elephants, hippopotamuses, mammoths, walruses, and whales are mostly solid. But the narwhal tusk is hollow, as is that of the wild boar for much of its length.

How much milk does a baby dolphin drink?

A baby dolphin drinks as much milk as a baby dolphin wants. Unless the mother dolphin and baby dolphin does not bond. Then the baby dolphin gets none.

Does elephants have the longest pregnancy of any land animal?

Female elephants social life revolves around breeding and raising of calves. A female will usually be sexually mature at around the age of thirteen.

After a gestation period of twenty-two-month, the mother gives birth to a calf that weighs about 115 kg and stands over 75 cm tall

The new born is usually the center of attention for the whole herd. The baby is born nearly blind and at first relies almost completely on its trunk to discover the world around it. The whole herd helps defend and raise the young one.

What are the behavioural adaptations of a wolf?

usually for the first two weeeks of their lives they sleep about 13 hours of the day and after a month they constantly drink and eat. At the 1 year stage the will be half-grown and will start to get aggresive if not trained. Make sure they have plenty of meat and water. The wilf will eventually calm-down and be friendly if taken care of well.

Name some different types of elephants?

There are two kinds of African elephants: (1) the African bush elephant; and (2) the African forest elephant.

What is helping elephants not be on the endangered list?

Many African countries, such as Botswana, are passing laws making it illegal to kill an elephant without approval of the government. More countries need to step up, though, in order to make these laws successful. Scientists are also putting radio collars on elephants so they can check their migrating habits, so these areas can be patrolled by African police.

How many babies does the Asian elephant has?

Asian elephants only have one calf at a time. They typically have about 4 offspring in their life time.

Why did the elephant jump?

Antelopes jump to escape their predators. They generally jump into dense bush that their predators can not get into.

What you the common phrase 'Play it by year or ear'?

Play it by ear. If you play it by ear, you don't have a plan of action, but decide what to do as events take shape.

Yes it is 'play it by ear' and it comes from when a musician plays a piece of music without the music sheet in front of them, they are making it up from listening to it, playing it by ear.

Why is the elephant shrew a living fossil?

Because they are relatively unchanged evolutionarily from the ancient Elephant Shrews

Are elephants evil?

No not at all. Elephants may appear evil when they ruin crops or kill farmers but they are doing these things out of a need for food or out of fear that turns into aggression.

Who would win in a fight an elephant or a king cobra?

Perhaps , an Indian Mongoose a creature renown for being capable of persevering against the King Cobra .

What does an elephant with its trunk up mean?

Actually the significance of an Elephants trunk being raised up is a symbol of good luck, fortune, and basically optimistic.You might hear various explanations, but none is reliable. There is no significance to either raised or lowered trunks.

In Thailand it is the Elephant that is considered good luck, regardless of the trunk position.

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How heavy is an adult elephant?

Male African elephants stand at around 10 to 13 feet tall at their shoulder. Female African elephants stand at around 7.2 to 8.5 feet tall at their shoulder. Their Asian counterparts are around 1 - 2 feet shorter than them and weigh a few thousand pounds lesser than them. The Average Asian elephant weighs anywhere between 2.7 tonnes to 4.5 tonnes. Full grown adult tuskers are known to weigh in the range of 4.5 tonnes. The Average African elephant weighs 2.7 to 6 tonnes. Though the African females are known to weigh approximately the same as their Asian counterparts, African Bulls are known to be much heavier than their Asian brothers.

How long have elephants existed?

About 73,670 years ago which is equal to about 78 whole chains. One chain is 53. thousand elephants in a family. so that is currently right now 4,134 dead elephants in the Johnson family. Wait- oh hold on, [cell phone rings] *Hi Jason! oh, good. I'm posting an answer about elephants on Wiki Answers. Yep. yep, okay, bye! wait, what?!? He just died? awe tell the priest that to say 'may he rest in elephant heaven peace'. okay bye. Thanks for the update.* Yeah, my cousin Jason's pet elephant just died about 1 minute ago, yeah. he was 45 . weeks. okay there's your answer, bye!

How is the mammoth and elephant the same?

yes Once opon a time many different tyeps of elephants.