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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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Where are elephants most hunted?
elephants are used in zoos for people to look at and feed. they are also used in circuses as show animals. they are also used on animal testing(which should be banned) because they have the same skin as other things or people.
What animals cannot jump backwards?
There are only two animals that are not able to move backward. These animals are the kangaroo and the emu.
Note that an elephant can even take down 7 attacking lions in a large pride by charging and crushing them to death. One lion cannot kill an elephant due to the elephant's thick skin, muscles, and size. At least 10 lions are good enough to kill an elephant.
No. An elephant has thick hide and would trample the lion to death.
How do elephants store their food?
Elephants use their mouths, teeth, and tongues to eat food and drink water. They use their trunks to breathe. It's the elephant equivalent of the human nose.
Adult elephants may eat an estmated 170-200 kilograms/77-91 pounds of food. In order to meet these requirements, they may draw on other body parts for help. For example, elephants are able to use their trunks to catch prey.
An elephant's water requirements may range from 80-200 liters/72-180 quarts per day. They can't meet their water needs through their mouths. What they do instead is take water in temporarily, for spraying into their mouths for drink or onto their bodies for bathing.
Why are pygmy elephants extinct?
Pygmy elephants are not extinct. They are currently classified as endangered due to threats such as habitat loss, illegal poaching, and human-wildlife conflict. Efforts are being made to protect and conserve the remaining populations of pygmy elephants in order to prevent their extinction.
How many eggs does an Asian Elephant lay at one time?
Elephants are born one at a time. About one every one year.
Do elephants give birth through the anus?
No, they give birth through the birth canal, like all animals do.
What is the second largest land animal in the world?
== == The African elephant is the largest land animal. It could be said that the Asian elephant is the second largest. If you lump all elephants together, that would leave the white rhinoceros as the second largest. The Indian rhinoceros and the hippopotamus are "similar" in size to the white rhino, but the record largest white rhino is larger than either the Indian rhino or the hippo.
What animal is the elephant oviparo or viviparous?
viviparous because they are born from their mothers and not from a egg
Why do elephants live for so long?
Elephants have long lifespans due to their slow rate of reproduction, which reduces the pressure for the species to evolve shorter lifespans. They also have few natural predators in the wild, which can contribute to their extended lifespan. Additionally, elephants have developed social structures and behaviors that help protect and support older individuals within their herds.
What do elephants use there big ears for?
There is no actual reason for the size of their ears. It is just one of their adaptations.
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The reason why the rabbits ears are so large is because they have had to adapt to their environment in the wild, as they are a prey animal, and have many predators, they have had to adapt to be able to 'tell' when an predator is in the vicinity.
The rabbits ears are large, which enables them to catch the sound waves more effectively, and hear the sounds in the environment more clearly. they are able to hear predators and humans approach from a distance, and are also able to use their keen sense of smell to tell where and how near a animal or predator is, they are also able to tell the difference between male and female humans from their scent.
Rabbits also use their ears as a temperature control mechanism, to warm themselves up or cool themselves down, they are able to do this because their ears are filled with blood vessels which run close to the surface of the ear. When the animal is too hot the blood vessels are able to cool the blood down from the cool air around the ear, the blood vessels are also able to warm the blood by the ears being in the sun, warming the ears and in turn the animal..... hope this helps :)
How much for a carved ivory tusk figurines?
A tusk from an adult male elephant weighs between 100 and 175 pounds, according to SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment, while a tusk from an adult female elephant weighs between 40 and 44 pounds.
The heaviest tusk ever recorded weighed in at 220 pounds
Did elephants live in the time of the dinosaurs?
Elephants are still living and can be found in Africa and Asia.
Elephants aren't fat, just big and weighty so they can knock down trees to eat their leaves and bark and to fight of predators etc. They just appear fat to most humans.
They may also store fat to see them through long, dry months without food, like camels do with their humps.
Are African forest elephants dangerous?
Elephants are large powerful creatures.
They are able to easily kill a person by stomping or smashing them with their very large heads. They also complete for resources with humans that live in their environment.
Many tribal Africans need to do as the elephants do, and move their people to where food can grow and water is nearby. This means they also have to deal with animals that want their food. Elephants have been known to raid farms, eating or destroying good deals of what the village had grown. They will also retaliate when the villagers chase them off.
There have been reported cases of villagers killing a younger elephant that is raiding their food supply, only to have the mother elephant come back looking for their young one, and tearing down parts of the village. In one case reported case, she could smell the blood of her calf inside a hut, and came right through the wall, killing some of the people inside.
Why do adult elephants take other baby elephants?
sometimes they do not do it on purpose sometimes they take other elephant young because they think it is ther own and sometuimes they take them if they dotn like that elephant because it is stealing territory
How tall was the largest African elephant?
The largest African Elephant was a bull elephant weighing 10 tonnes, with a shoulder height og 4 meters. The largest African Elephant was a bull elephant weighing 10 tonnes, with a shoulder height of 4 meters.
How many teeth do elephants use to chew their food?
Adult elephants have 24 teeth, but 26 if you count their tusks. They have 12 molars and 12 premolars, and also 2 tusks
Elephants' teeth are very different from those of most other mammals. Over their lives they usually have 28 teeth if you count their first set of tusks. These are:
- The two upper second incisors, known as tusks.
- The milk precursors of the tusks.
- 12 premolars, 3 in each side of each jaw.
- 12 molars, 3 in each side of each jaw.
Unlike most mammals, which grow baby teeth and then replace them with a permanent set of adult teeth, elephants have cycles of tooth rotation throughout their entire life. The tusks have milk precursors, which fall out quickly and the adult tusks are in place by one year of age, but the molars are replaced five times in an average elephant's lifetime.[39] The teeth do not emerge from the jaws vertically like with human teeth. Instead, they move horizontally, like a conveyor belt. New teeth grow in at the back of the mouth, pushing older teeth toward the front, where they wear down with use and the remains fall out. When an elephant becomes very old, the last set of teeth is worn to stumps, and it must rely on softer foods to chew. Very elderly elephants often spend their last years exclusively in marshy areas where they can feed on soft wet grasses. Eventually, when the last teeth fall out, the elephant will be unable to eat and will die of starvation. Were it not for tooth wear out, their metabolism would allow them to live much longer. However, as more habitat is destroyed, the elephants' living space becomes smaller and smaller; the elderly no longer have the opportunity to roam in search of more appropriate food and will, consequently, die of starvation at an earlier age.
Tusks in the lower jaw are also second incisors. These grew out large in Deinotherium and some mastodons, but in modern elephants they disappear early without erupting.
12 molar and 12 premolar teeth and also 2 tusks in an African elephant's mouth.
elephants have 24 teeth; 12 back teeth and 12 front teeth
What are elephant leaves?
According to Wikipedia, there are a few different kinds of plants known as elephant ear: Xanthosoma, Caladium, Colocasia (ie taro), and Alocasia. There's also one known as elephant tree: Bursera microphylla.
To find out if a rabbit can or can't eat a particular plant: you have to know what plant you're talking about exactly, and you have to do a bit of research. Look for your plant on the standard lists, and post a question in an active rabbit-specific forum, like Rabbits Online. See related links below.
How many wild elephants are left in the world?
Once numbering in the millions, the African elephant population has dwindled to between 470,000 and 690,000 individuals according to a March 2007 estimate. The world population of Asian elephants -- also called Indian Elephants -- is estimated to be around 60,000.
There are an estimated 500,000 African and 40,000 Indian elephants alive, including about 2000 total in zoo populations.
A reduction in the illegal ivory trade would improve their chances of survival, as many are illegally killed by poachers each year. Habitat loss is another major threat in India and other Asian elephant countries.
African- about 600,000
Asian- about 80,000
