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The average adult consumes about 150 kg (330 lb) of vegetation and 230 L (51 imp gal; 61 US gal) of water each day. A social animal, the African bush elephant often travels in herds composed of cows and their offspring. Adult bulls usually live alone or in small bachelor groups.
Skeleton of Jumbo, a young African bush elephant bull, compared to a human. The African bush elephant is the largest terrestrial animal. Under optimal conditions where individuals are capable of reaching full growth potential, mature fully grown females are 2.47–2.73 m (8 ft 1 in – 8 ft 11 in) tall at the shoulder and weigh 2,600–3,500 kg ...
A family of African bush elephants. Elephants are generally gregarious animals. African bush elephants in particular have a complex, stratified social structure. [101] Female elephants spend their entire lives in tight-knit matrilineal family groups. [102] They are led by the matriarch, who is often the eldest female. [103]
There are currently around 415,000 African elephants in the world (African bush and African forest combined), but there are only approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants left.
African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that documents alarming population ...
Asian elephant: Elephas maximus: 79.6 years [6] Corvidae: Common raven: Corvus corax: 69 years [7] Hominidae: Chimpanzee: Pan troglodytes: 68 years [8] Elephantidae: African bush elephant: Loxodonta africana: 65 years [9] Hippopotamidae: Hippopotamus: Hippopotamus amphibius: 61.2 years [10] Crocodylidae: Nile crocodile: Crocodylus niloticus: 56 ...
Afrotheria (/ æ f r oʊ ˈ θ ɪər i ə / from Latin Afro-"of Africa" + theria "wild beast") is a superorder of placental mammals, the living members of which belong to groups that are either currently living in Africa or of African origin: golden moles, elephant shrews (also known as sengis), otter shrews, tenrecs, aardvarks, hyraxes, elephants, sea cows, and several extinct clades.
This also means that African elephants are taller than Asian elephants. African elephants are 10-12 feet tall and weigh 8,000-12,000 pounds, while Asian elephants are 7-10 feet tall and weigh ...