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Difference between Asian and African elephants

Mohsin Ali — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:45:15 +0000

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. Asian elephants have rounded backs; African elephants have concave (hollowed) backs. Asian elephants have two bulges on their foreheads; African elephants have rounded foreheads.

African Elephant Pictures

Asian Elephant Eating A Grass

What are Elephants? Elephants Pictures

Mohsin Ali — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:20:32 +0000

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. Elephants do not defend the home range over which they wander; instead they seem to know and be on friendly terms with their neighbours. Each herd is led by an old female who is followed by her young offspring and her adult daughters and their families. The elephants in a herd remain together for many years. Its members keep close to each to each other and look after and even suckle each other’s babies if need be. Sometimes a herd splits, and a younger female leaves with some of the others, but they remain close to the parent group and may rejoin it briefly.

Young males leave the herd when they reach puberty, at the age of about twelve years. Males may from herds, but these do not have any constant members and change from one day to the next. There is no special breeding season, but if a female is ready to mate, her group will be joined by males though they will not remain permanently. Elephants are among the largest land mammals on earth. Watch the elephants pictures of African and Asian origion.

Types of elephants.
Habitats of elephants or Where elephants are found.
Life span of elephants.
Average size of an elephant.
what elephants eat and drink.
Are elephants endangered species.

Elephants Endangered Species Facts

Mohsin Ali — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:07:43 +0000

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. Indian elephants are endangered species as only 50,000 elephants are alive in China, Sri Lanka, India, Borneo, Sumatra and Andaman Island while 15,000 in captivity. African elephants are also prone to the some serious threats but they are not included in the ICUN list of endangered species.

Threats to Elephants: There are different types of human factors which are resposible for the decrease in population of the elephant species specially the Indian elephants. Here are elephants endangered facts;

1. Poaching of elephants for ivory specially the African elephants. Poaching of Indian elephants is not as common as of African elephants. Ivory is used for making different products in the world therefore hunters kill elephants to exploit this precious thing.
2. Expanding population require more agricultural land to meet the food needs of the human beings. For this end local governments are wiping out the forests to make them cultivable for agricultural use. This is a cause of vanishing out the natural habitats of elephants and other endangered species.
3. Also the rapid changing atmosphere is creating some problems for the survival of these endangered species.
As the In the past there were many species of elephants, which lived over most of the world apart form Australia. Some were much bigger than the elephants of today, but they are now extinct. As a result of hunting for ivory and poaching and taking over the elephants’ environment, there are far fewer elephant today than there were even 20 years age. Many people feel that it is not possible for such large and demanding animals to survive in a world of expanding human populations.

African Elephant Photo

What Elephants Eat And Drink

Mohsin Ali — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:35:33 +0000

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. An adult elephant eats about 150 kg (300 lb) of grass, leaves, twigs and fruit each day. Tree bark is the favourite food source of elephants. To supplement the diet, elephants will dig up earth to obtain salt and minerals. The tusks are used to churn the ground.

Elephant Eat Grass Picture

What Elephants Drink: Elephants require 65 to 95 litres of water every day. This is because of the bulky size of the elephants.
Such tough food needs to be thoroughly chewed, and elephants have grinding teeth in the back of their mouths. This is the position in which the teeth have the most force, but they do wear out. When this happens they are replaced by others which push in from behind. In all they have six sets of grinding teeth, but when the last of these wears out, the animals is probably about 55 years old. It becomes weakened by lack of food and dies of starvation or disease.

Elephant Drinking Water Picture

Types of Elephants

Mohsin Ali — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:06:51 +0000

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.African elephants are of two types. One which lives in sub-Saharan part of Africa which are called Forest elephants and other which lives in Savannah region called Savannah elephants. The second form of elephants are Asian elephants. The difference between African and Asian is visible through their weight and tusks.

Asian Elephant Picture

African Elephants Picture

Where elephants are found?

Mohsin Ali — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:41:22 +0000

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. The African countries of this range are from Benin to Uganda where forest elephants are found and from South of the Sahara from Angola to Zimbabwe where Savanna elephants are found. In Asia elephants are found in different South East Asian and South Asian countries like China, Thailand, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka etc.

African Elephants Picture

Average Size Of An Elephant

Mohsin Ali — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:49:33 +0000

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.

African Elephant Facts:
Head and body length of an African elephant: 6.0—7.5 m.
Shoulder height of African elephant: 3—4 m.
Weigh of African elephant: t 2,200—7,500 kg.
Weight of Elephant Brain: 4.2 to 5.4 Kilograms
Weight of an Elephant’s heart: 28 to 30 Kgs. The heart of an elephant beats only 28 times a minute as compared to the heart of a mouse which beats 500 times a minute.

Asian Elephant Facts:

Head and body length of an Asian elephant: 5.5—6.4 m.
Shoulder height of Asian elephant: 2.5—3.0 m.
Weigh of Asian elephant: 5,000 kg.

Average Size Of An Elephant Picture

Life Span of An Elephant

Mohsin Ali — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:40:46 +0000

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.

80 Years Old Elephants

Elephant Tusks: Elephant Teeth Facts

Mohsin Ali — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:25:13 +0000

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. The heaviest teeth of elephant weighs about 107 kg but average elephant teeth weight is less than this weight. An elephant’s tusks are its second upper incisor teeth. When the elephant teeth begin to grow they are covered with a cap of enamel. But gradually this cap is removed as the size of these teeth increases. Elephants use their tusks (teeth) for defence and feeding. The teeth of an Asiatic elephant are bigger than African elephant teeth. See the elephant teeth pictures here.

Elephant Teeth