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  2. Baby Animals 101: Fun Names and Surprising Facts - AOL

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    While most people know that a baby dog is called a puppy, many may not know what a baby elephant is called. In this fun infographic, explore the world of baby animals. Find out what they’re ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Elephant - Wikipedia

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    The position of the limbs and leg bones allows an elephant to stand still for extended periods of time without tiring. Elephants are incapable of turning their manus as the ulna and radius of the front legs are secured in pronation. [72] Elephants may also lack the pronator quadratus and pronator teres muscles or have very small ones. [74]

  5. Elephantidae - Wikipedia

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    Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths. These are large terrestrial mammals with a snout modified into a trunk and teeth modified into tusks. Most genera and species in the family are extinct. Only two genera, Loxodonta (African elephants) and Elephas (Asian elephants), are ...

  6. African forest elephant - Wikipedia

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    The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant. It is native to humid tropical forests in West Africa and the Congo Basin . It is the smallest of the three living elephant species, reaching a shoulder height of 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in).

  7. African elephant - Wikipedia

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    The name Loxodonta comes from the Ancient Greek words λοξός (loxós,"slanting", "crosswise") and ὀδούς (odoús, "tooth"), referring to the lozenge-shaped enamel of the molar teeth, which differs significantly from the rounded shape of the Asian elephant's molar enamel.

  8. List of individual elephants - Wikipedia

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    Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's elephant whose name is the origin of the word jumbo (meaning "very large" or "oversized"). The African elephant was given the name Jumbo by zookeepers at the London Zoo. The name was most likely derived from the Swahili word jumbe meaning "chief". Lallah Rookh, elephant with Dan Rice's circus.

  9. African bush elephant - Wikipedia

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    From the Bovidian period [a] (3550–3070 BCE), elephant images by the San bushmen in the South African Cederberg Wilderness Area suggest to researchers that they had "a symbolic association with elephants" and "had a deep understanding of the communication, behaviour and social structure of elephant family units" and "possibly developed a ...