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  2. Size, Tusks, and Ears: How African and Asian Elephants Differ

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    The African elephant is much larger than the Asian elephant in size and weight. African Elephant. ... When you compare an African elephant head to an Asian elephant head, you will notice that the ...

  3. Why Asian Elephants Are More Than Just the Largest ... - AOL

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    There are three types of elephants: the African forest elephant, the Asian elephant, and the African savanna (or bush) elephant.Elephants in the African savanna are larger than those in the ...

  4. Asian elephant - Wikipedia

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    The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus ... [33] [34] [35] Sexual dimorphism in body size is relatively less pronounced in Asian elephants than in African bush elephants; ...

  5. File:Physical Differences Between African and Asian Elephants ...

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    African elephants have larger ears than Asian elephants. (2.) An Asian elephant has a twin-domed head with an indent in the middle and African elephants have a fuller and more rounded head. (3.) All African elephants, males and females, have tusks, for as a small percentage of male and female Asian elephants have tusks. (4.) An African elephant ...

  6. Sri Lankan elephant - Wikipedia

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    The Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) is native to Sri Lanka and one of three recognised subspecies of the Asian elephant. It is the type subspecies of the Asian elephant and was first described by Carl Linnaeus under the binomial Elephas maximus in 1758. [ 1 ]

  7. Discover Fascinating Facts About Elephants: The World’s ...

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    Yes, elephants are indeed mammals. In fact, elephants have the honor of being the biggest land mammal in the world. There are two types of elephants: African and Asian. They both have long trunks ...

  8. Palaeoloxodon namadicus - Wikipedia

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    Size comparison of the Sagauni 1 specimen, estimated to be 4.35 metres tall, compared to a human. Like living elephants, Palaeoloxodon namadicus is thought to have been sexually dimorphic, with males considerably larger than females, with the skull of a P. namadicus male found in the Godavari valley described in 1905 being a full 40% larger than that of a mature female (NHMUK PV M3092, which ...

  9. List of heaviest land mammals - Wikipedia

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    The heaviest land mammal is the African bush elephant, which has a weight of up to 10.1 t (11.1 short tons).It measures 10–13 ft at the shoulder and consumes around 230 kg (500 lb) of vegetation a day.