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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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Do Elephants hurt anything?

An elephant is certainly capable of harming you. Its sheer weight means it could knock you over and crush you.

Why does the Hindu god Ganesh have an elephant head?

There are multiple theories as to why shiva chose the head of an elephant 2 of the most common being: 1.Shiva randomly shot an arrow an which ever animal it hit would give its head to Ganesh. 2. An evil demon by the name of Gajasur who had an elephant head was killed by shiva and his head was given to Ganesha.

What eats the elephant grass in the savanna?

Elephants eat elephant grass. Other large grazing animals such as the zebra, and the bongo, who live in Africa also eat this grass. Smaller animals are unable to eat it.

Who would win a fight between a elephant and hippo?

The hippo would win by holding the bull's head and dragging it to drown it, using its monstrous jaws and a huge weight advantage. The bull would not do much with its horns/hooves/weight since the hippo has thick hide to protect itself from horns/hooves/claws/teeth. If a bull and a hippo fought, the hippo would win no matter what.

How do African elephants affect their environment?

An elephant's habitat is dependent on them as are the lives of every creature in their territory. In fact, elephants have been proven to have a dramatic impact on the weather.

Scientific studies have shown that, in places where elephants have been eliminated, drought has ensued and the land has turned to desert. Other animal populations have disappeared. And uncontrolled fires ravage the land.

Dung beetles, an important part of the food chain, subsist solely on elephant excrement. Dung beetles, on the other hand, are critical to the diet of many other creatures. Other large herbivores rely on the elephant to find water because elephants are able to not only smell and locate underground water, but they can smell water over large distances. They dig down into the earth and free water, so that when they're done, other animals can move in and drink.

Elephants keep grasses, bushes, and trees pruned and trimmed resulting in healthier vegetation. This keeps dense vegetation from soaking up all the water thus making it available to other plants and animals. Because elephants are nomadic and migrate routinely through the year, the land regenerates in their absence.

Seeds and other plant reproductive parts are passed into the land from elephant manure as another way of replenishing the earth.

This is an accurate, but incomplete and simplistic look at the role elephants play and what their loss would mean to the world. Their extinction would be a worldwide catastrophe, possibly resulting in the extinction of mankind. At a very minimum, it would drastically change the world as we know it and alter our way of life.

What a male elephant weighs up to?

The average weight of a full grown Asian elephant is 3 tons. The average weight of a full grown African forest elephant is 3 tons.

The average weight of an African bush elephant is 6-1/2 tons.

What are the adaptations of an elephant tree?

One of the adaptations are that they have shallow roots that let it absorb water quickly.

What do elephants fight over?

Fighting usually occurs between rival males during a hormonal surge known as must. They battle for dominance and the right to breed, but fatalities are avoided if at all possible; they still respect each other (at least, to some degree).

What is the difference between a baby and adult elephant?

Yes, their is a difference between adult and baby zebra.

A baby zebra is smaller than a adult zebra.

The adult zebra is bigger than the baby zebra.

Also they have different stripes like all zebras do.

Can a great white shark kill an elephant?

There's a difference between being able to, and having the chance to.

Elephants very rarely swim in the ocean, and great whites very rarely swim far upriver.

So while a great white quite probably have the teeth and jaws to take an elephant apart, it's very unlikely that the two animals would ever meet.

What color is elephant hair?

An Asian Elephant normally has a colour between brown and black. The colour is more like a really dark brown.

What do Indian elephants symbolize?

Elephant (trunk up) Long life, luck, remover of obstacles, self-preservation.

As interpreted in Tassography - Advise needed, good luck (trunk up), obstacles overcome, remembrance, slow ascent to success, strength, wisdom.

Are elephants the cleverest animal on the Earth?

They are both very intelligent but an elephant is slightly smarter I believe
This is more of an opinion question, but this is my answer: Dolphin, because they have a special range of hearing in which they can hear some of the smallest sounds. Dolphins also have a special way of catching food.
Maybe a whale. Or arangatang. < monkey, gorilla, ape,

Can elephants give birth to more than one calf?

Typically, elephants have only one baby at a time. But over a lifetime, a female elephant can have up to six babies.

What do elephant do during the day?

They start off their day by having a big bowl of cheerios. With low fat milk. Then they go to see their friends, withtheir friends they do a variety of different things including: Wanking, watching porn, having sex and play fighting! They have fab days together, in the elephant world! :)

Does an African elephant have two fleshy fingers on its trunk?

i think they are called trukulus finguli.... but im not sure

What is the size of an Asian Elephant?

Male Asian Elephants stand at around 10 to 11 feet tall at their shoulder. Female Asian Elephants stand around 7 to 9 feet tall. Weight wise, they weigh somewhere between 2.7 tonnes to 4.5 tonnes. Adult Tuskers can even cross this 4.5 tonnes weight. African Elephants are much taller and heavier than Asian Elephants

How are elephants and bats alike?

Both bats and dolphins use echolocation. Echolocation is a way to identify objects as well as their distance. They actually send out a sound and use its echo to detect distance. For exemple, imagine you are standing 10 meters away from a wall and throw a ball at it. The ball will return to you in a certain amount of time. Now, if you step at 5 meters of that wall, the ball will return to you faster than before. This is how echolocation works. When the echo of the sound returns to the animal faster than before, it means the animal is getting closer to the object. Another way they are similar is that both are mammals that have evolved abilities most mammals don't have. Dolphins live in the sea, and bats fly.

What is the African word for elephant?

"African" is not a language. Africa is a continent that contains 54 countries and more than 2100 completely different languages. Some estimates place the number of languages at around 3000.

If you have any quesitons about African languages, you will have to specify the language.

The most prominent languages spoken in Africa are:

Afrikaans

Amharic

Arabic

English

French

Fula

Hausa

Igbo

Oroma

Somali

Swahili

Yoruba

Zulu