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• The elephant silhouettes are redrawn primarily from a photo by Ian Sewell, [4] with the female modified based on information and photos on Elephant Voices Blog. [5] [6] Newborn silhouette drawn from multiple images found online. • Humans scaled to 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) and 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) respectively.
The strength of eye muscle control is positively correlated to achieve depth perception. Human eyes are formed in such a way that each eye reflects a stimulus at a slightly different angle thereby producing two images that are processed in the brain. These images provide the essential visual information regarding 3D features of the external world.
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 ...
An internationalised vector image was then created by User:Silversmith and uploaded to Commons as Image:Schematic diagram of the human eye.svg (see right). On request, this version with English annotations was created and uploaded here. Later, the text labels were made into hyperlinks pointing at relevant articles in the English Wikipedia.
At a certain hole, the elephant refused to lower the log. The mahout came to investigate the hold-up and noticed a dog sleeping in the hole. The elephant only lowered the log when the dog was gone. [32] When an elephant is hurt, other elephants (even if they are unrelated) aid them. [23]
The brain of an elephant weighs 4.5–5.5 kg (10–12 lb) compared to 1.6 kg (4 lb) for a human brain. [77] It is the largest of all terrestrial mammals. [78] While the elephant brain is larger overall, it is proportionally smaller than the human brain. At birth, an elephant's brain already weighs 30–40% of its adult weight.
You'll be laughing your trunk off thanks to these elephant-themed jokes. The post 45 Elephant Jokes That Are a Ton of Laughs appeared first on Reader's Digest.
A 2002 study found the prevalence of blue eye color among the white population in the United States to be 33.8% for those born from 1936 through 1951, compared with 57.4% for those born from 1899 through 1905. [15] As of 2006, one out of every six Americans, or 16.6% of the total US population, has blue eyes, [63] including 22.3% of whites.