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Motty (11 July – 21 July 1978) was the only proven hybrid between an Asian and an African elephant. The male calf was born in Chester Zoo to Asian mother Sheba and African father Jumbolino. [ 1 ] He was named after George Mottershead , who founded the Chester Zoo in 1931.
When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...
Elephants in the African savanna are larger than those in the African forest, which was split off as a separate species in 2000. 2. The Asian Elephant is an Important Cultural and Religious Icon
FS1 Flight Simulator is a 1979 video game published by Sublogic for the Apple II. A TRS-80 version followed in 1980. FS1 Flight Simulator is a flight simulator in the cockpit of a slightly modernized Sopwith Camel. FS1 is the first in a line of simulations from Sublogic which, beginning in 1982, were also sold by Microsoft as Microsoft Flight ...
(4.) An African elephant’s trunk is more heavily ringed than an Asian elephant’s. (5.) Toenails differ between species of elephants. African savanna: 4 on front, 3 on back. Asian: 5 on front, 4 on back. (6.) Asian elephants have longer tails than African elephants. (7.) The back of an African elephant dips down, and an Asian elephant’s ...
Musth has been known in Asian elephants for 3000 years (described in the Rigveda 1500–1000 B.C.) but was recognized in African elephants only in the late twentieth century. [1]: 101 In 1975, scientists Joyce Poole and Cynthia Moss were working in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Poole noticed a period of heightened reproductive activity and ...
Both African elephant species are threatened foremost by habitat loss and habitat fragmentation following conversion of forests for plantations of non-timber crops, livestock farming, and building urban and industrial areas. As a result, human-elephant conflict has increased. Poaching for ivory and bushmeat is a significant threat in Central ...
Dogfight might more properly be referred to as three programs, flight, dog, and shadow.Flight is a flight simulator, dog is an air combat game in which multiple people use the flight interface to control their aircraft, and Shadow is an observation program that allows a user to see what a user of either dog or flight sees.