Elephants

The largest elephant ever recorded, shot in Angola in 1956, had a shoulder height of 3.96 metres (13.0 feet).

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The average weight of an African elephant is 4,000 to 7,000 kg (8,800 to 15,400 lbs). The average weight of an Asian elephant is 3,000 to 5,000 kg (6,600 to 11,000 lbs).

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An elephant has more skin.

The African bush elephant is the largest elephant species, with males reaching nearly eleven feet tall and weighing to six tons or more. The Asian elephant and African forest elephant are roughly the same size, to nine feet or more in height, and up to four tons.

They are both big and have wonderful stopping power

No, elephants do not mate using their trunks. They have a reproductive organ called a penis that is used for mating. The trunk is used for various other functions such as feeding, breathing, and communication.

The oldest most experienced female of the herd is called the "Matriarch" Elephants live as a big heard which comprises of dozens of females and a bunch of baby elephants too. The herd is led or directed by the Matriarch. Since she is very old and experienced and she knows the places that contain the best food at that time of the season and also know where to find water holes.

Elephants are better than cyclist. Better than humans in general.

It only takes moments for a baby elephant to walk after birth . The longest I have heard of is 1 hour after birth , but no more than that.

It is called snot blowing .

In drier times, trees store all of their carbohydrates in their roots and in the bark, just like in a carrot or potato. An elephant knows this. What they do is push over a tree to uproot it partly. This enables them to get their tusk and trunk around the bottom roots. They can actually flip a tree upside down in order to feed on the softer roots and strip the bark from the bottom of the tree. Elephants do push trees over to get to the top leaves but more often it is to get to the soft roots which are storing the energy - carbohydrates.

There are no bones or cartilage in an elephants trunk.

The average span between babies is about 5 years (so 1-2 calves every 5 years), but the time may be shorter if there is plenty of food and safety

Usually in mammals tusks are enlarged canine teeth but in elephants they are actually elongated incisors. Tusks are essentially no different from other teeth. A third of the tusk is actually hidden from view, embedded deep into the elephant's head. This part of the tusk is a pulp cavity made up of tissue, blood and nerves. The visible, ivory part of the tusk is made of dentine with an outer layer of enamel. Elephant ivory is unique which when viewed in cross-section reveals criss-cross lines that form a series of diamond shapes. Elephants tusk never stop growing so some old bulls display enormous examples. However the average size of tusks has decreased over the past hundred years because hunting elephants for their ivory has resulted in the 'big tusk gene' becoming increasingly rare.

Food chains are just smaller sections of food webs.

A wolf, in this case, would fit into the food chain: grass->deer->wolf

But the wolf does not just eat deer, and the deer may not just eat grass.

So the food web would look similar to

bush \

deer

grass / \ wolf

\ /

hare

\

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It's unlikely for an elephant to intentionally hunt and eat a chicken as they are herbivores and primarily feed on plants. However, in rare cases, an elephant may inadvertently trample on or consume a chicken that happens to be in its path.

Elephants are probably the largest living mammals on earth. They don't have any natural predators that can attack a full grown elephant. However, In Africa lions and packs of hyenas have been known to attack an injured or extremely old elephant or an elephant calf that has strayed away from its herd. In Asia, a large adult Tiger or a Lion can attack a young elephant calf. Humans are the biggest enemies to elephants in all its habitats. Armed with guns hunters and poachers are the biggest threat to elephant numbers.

A female elephant is known as a cow, while a male is called a bull.

The male elephant stands up on his hind legs and mounts the female from behind. After mating, the two elephants often spend some time snuggling and entwining their trunks in an embrace.

Since price of ivory is soaring rapidly,Ivory is dealt minimum $1500 to max $1800 per pound normally in the market and if its good in quality (shiny & antique) could even fetch $7000 a KG.Someone been to market in china once said to me that a 2' carved tusk hardly 3 kilograms in weight being carved in 1900 to 1920 will easily fetch $15000.My advice will be to stay away from ever plunging into this investment because its

1. Illegal

2. The Elephants are facing a very high risk of extinction

PLz spread the word - Say NO to Ivory