All Entries in the "Elephants" Category

There are certain differences between Asian and African elephants. The Asian elephant (below) differs in many ways from its African cousins. Asian elephants have small, triangular ears; African elephants have large, rounded ears. (more…)

Elephants are the biggest living land animals. There are two types of elephant, African and Asian. Both types live in herds, and have poor eyesight, but very good senses of hearing and smell. If one animal detects danger, the whole herd is alerted. (more…)

There are two major types of elephants in the world namely African and Asian. Both of these elephant are endangered species as the ivory hunters are posing some serious threats to the existence of these mammal species. (more…)

What Elephants Eat: An elephant’s size means that, when it is fully grown, it is safe from all predators other than humans. To support its large size it needs huge amounts of food. (more…)

Elephants are the biggest living land animals. There are two types of elephant, African and Asian. Both types live in herds, and have poor eyesight, but very good senses of hearing and smell. If one animal detects danger, the whole herd is alerted. (more…)

Where elephants are found? There are two natural habitats of elephants; African elephant which live in most of African sub-Saharan forests of central and western part of Africa and Asian elephants which are found in South East and South Asia. (more…)

The average size of an elephant varies among the African and Asiatic elephant. The tusk of Asian elephants are bigger than the African elephants where as the brain size of an elephant is the largest among all other mammals on the earth. The elephant is among the most intelligent animal on earth. While the size of an elephant’s brain is the largest in size among the land mammals, it actually only occupies a small area at the back of the skull.  However, in proportion to the size of the body, the elephant brain is smaller than the human brain. Despite this, the elephant is one of the only animals along with all apes (including ourselves), sperm whales and a few other creatures who has a large brain relative to body size. (more…)

How many years an elephant live? The average life span of an elephant is 50—70 years.  Oldest elephant on earth was 82 years old as per record. (more…)

Elephant Tusks (teeth) are one of the those things which differs an elephant from other animals(mammals).There are 12 per-molars and 12 molars which make an elephant teeth. (more…)