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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 kind of symmetry does an elephant have?
Yes. Lions, like all vertebrates, have bilateral symmetry. This means they have symmetry across one plane (known as the sagittal plane, and directly down the centre of their body), which means one side of their body approximately mirrors the other side.
What is the average birth weight of a newborn baby?
About 80 percent of single babies (that is, babies who aren't one half of a set of a twins) born to women in the U.S. between 1995 to 1997 weighed between 6 pounds and 9.25 pounds. The median birthweight for a U.S. baby carried to term was 7 pounds, 11 ounces during that time span.
Why do elephants have such good memories?
The elephant brain is denser than the human's, and the temporal lobes, associated to memory, are more developed than in humans. Elephant's lobes also have more foldings, so that they can store more information. That's why elephants have excellent memory.
How long does a baby elephant stay in their mothers womb?
A calf will stay with its mother for about 10 months before it is weaned and becomes independent.
It is fairly common for one breast to be larger than the other. Breasts can be come sore around the time you are going to start menstruating. I would do a breast exam to make sure there is no lumps in the larger breast just to be safe.
Do elephants have belly buttons?
Well the umbilical cord was our feeding tube during the lifespan within the womb, so all animals born within a womb needed this in order to survive. After we are born the cord is unnecessary anymore and we receive our nutrition in other ways, so therefore we get belly buttons.
What bones are involved with the neck?
There are seven bones in the neck that make up what is called the "Cervical vertebrae". They are referred to as C1 thru C7 which is short for "cervical 1 thru cervical 7". The neck also has one more bone called the Hyoid bone.
What controls body temperature?
It is believed by psychologists that the hypothalamus, a sub-cortical structure in the brain, is responsible for the most basic human functions, including temperature, hunger, sleep, and levels of arousal and also thyroxine can also controls this
Probabilty of pregnancy at in 30's?
You have probably a 10%-25% chance every month to become pregnant (without knowing if you are in your late or early 30's), while a woman under 30 had about a 25%-30% of becoming pregnant each month. A woman over 40 has about a 10% chance.
Amazons were (possibly mythical) warrior women, who are described in the Iliad as "antianeirai", meaning: those who go to war like men. They were also described by Herodotus as "androktones", killers of males. They were said to worship Artemis the virgin goddess of the hunt, and Ares the god of war. As to how they multiplied, some say the Amazons met with men from nearby societies, and chose suitable partners would take into the darkness of the forest and couple with. If they gave birth to a male, they were said to kill, blind or cripple the infant. If they kept them alive they would then use them when they grew into young men (if they were suitable) as a supply of male seed. They also took men prisoner in battle, after choosing the most handsome they then used them for their sexual pleasure, and would either kill them or use them as slaves once their usefulness had been expended. Click the related link below and choose Amazons from menu on the left. The last paragraph is about reproduction.
Elephants are only native to two continents - Africa and Asia. There have never been elephants in Japan, other than those in captivity.
Fossil mammoths have been found in Japan however.
Where do Asian elephants come from?
Asian elephants are very alike to African elephants. Asian elephants have smaller ears. African elephants have huge ears. Asian elephants live in Asia, and are smaller than African elephants. African elephants live in Africa. However, they are usually the same color and they both have tusks made of ivory and a trunk for a nose. Now you know how to tell apart African and Asian elephants! There are only between 41,410 and 52,345 in the wild.
Are elephants habitats in the rainforest?
They live on the floor of the rain forests and eat nuts and fruits that fall to the ground
Someone has written:
"Elephants are native to Africa and Asia, there are no elephants in Peru unless they are African or Asian elephants in zoos."
This is incorrect. There exists a Peruvian elephant that is known as the Peruvian Elephant. This creature is neither African or Asian but is a pachyderm peculiar to Peru. Three breeding pairs were purchased from Peru by Captain Albert Threshfield, a former officer of the Yorkshire Infantry Regiment, The Green Howards, in 1793. In September of 1874, the first Peruvian elephants were hard at work hauling lead ore in the Yorkshire Dales from Swaledale to Richmond.
The Peruvian elephant is [they still exist!] a dwarf compared with its African and Asian relatives. It grows as large as an Irish Wolfhound in height, but is stockier, well muscled, affable, and hard working, capable of carrying huge packs of ingots, which it did uncomplainingly.
The Peruvian has an extremely dexterous trunk and a stocky, powerful build. It also has clawed feet thaty were as useful for climbing the Yorkshire heights as they were for scaling the Peruvian Andes.
The elephants adapted easily to Yorkshire and new generations of calves were born there. The animals became favourites of the lead miners, and several were adopted as domestic pets when their working lives were over.
When the railway came close enough to the lead mines in 1840, the elephants were let free, and their descendants live today in the wild places of Swaledale. Two bouts of disease reduced their numbers. The first was the 1920 outbreak of foot and mouth disease that reduced the great herds, and then an outbreak, believed to be myxomatosis, in the late 1950s reduced the herds even further.
In the Yorkshire magazine, The Dalesman, of April, 1993, Russel Turner in, 'The Elephants of Swaledale,' pp. 50-52, writes:
"A few survive and continue to live high in the hills of Swaledale., far from their South American homeland. Shy and secretive they may be, but they are still there for someone who knows where to find them."
I trust that this puts Peruvian elephants back on the map. It has been the fashion to deny their existence for a couple of hundred years, but you can see them for yourself if you will venture into the high Andes or even into Swaledale.
Why is Thailand called the land of white elephants?
Thailand is known as "land of white elephant" because Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation that has never been colonised by the europeans.
What divides Asia from Africa?
The Karakoram range of the Himalayas forms India's northern border and separates south Asia from the rest of Asia.
Are there elephants in Scotland?
There are no wild elephants, but there are elephants in zoos and safari parks.
There are two more common reasons that this question has been popping up here and there on the internet.
Firstly, there has been a theory the last few years that the Loch Ness monster photo that was originally taken in 1977 was actually the trunk from an elephant. They point out that a traveling circus was in the area at the time of the "sighting." When you look at the old picture with that in mind, you can't help but to see a striking resemblance. Is that enough to settle the old legend? Probably not, but it is a very interesting theory.
The other reason is a book titled Translocation, by photographer George Logan. He blended pictures of African animals with scenery shots of his home town in Scotland. There are shots of elephants walking behind stone homes and cheetahs laying on Scottish door steps. National Geographic did a bit on the book. The name of their article was The Elephants of Scotland. The book was written as a benefit for the Born Free Foundation.
Why do elephants live on the forest floor?
Because they would snap the branches if they lived in the trees.
How many people have ever lived in the world?
Number who have ever been born---------------------------------106,456,367,669
World population in mid-2002------------------------------------------6,215,000,000
Percent of those ever born who are living in 2002--------------5.8
These figures are the result of a lot of speculation and the application of a certain amount of licence as any population records available for mankind only go back about 1% of their existence in time.
What is the water temperature at elephant butte lake?
According to today's fishing report, the water temp is 76. Nice!
