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An elephant never forgets might be an exaggeration, but elephants actually have the largest brains of all land mammals. An adult elephant’s weighty brain reaches nearly 11 pounds- that’s 8 ...
An elephant's skin is generally very tough, at 2.5 cm (1 in) thick on the back and parts of the head. The skin around the mouth, anus, and inside of the ear is considerably thinner. Elephants are typically grey, but African elephants look brown or reddish after rolling in coloured mud.
The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant, along with the African bush 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). As with other African ...
Elephas beyeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant known from the Middle Pleistocene. [1] It was named after the anthropologist H. Otley Beyer . [ 2 ] The type specimen, a partial molar tooth, was discovered on Cabarruyan Island in the Philippines but has since been lost.
Just like kids, animals love to play. Dok Gaew is an adolescent male elephant who lives at the Save Elephant Foundation (SEF) in Thailand. He was rescued in 2017 after he was orphaned shortly ...
Ajay Adrushyappa Desai, also known as, Elephant Man, [1] (24 July 1957 – 20 November 2020) was an Indian Field Biologist-conservationist and researcher specializing in behavior of wild elephants with a focus on wildlife conflicts with human settlement.
Tusko the elephant in a 1925 advertisement for Al G. Barnes Zoo in California — note Tusko's wildly exaggerated claimed age ("200 Years Old") Tusko, formerly known as "Ned", was a giant circus elephant captured at age 6 in Siam (now Thailand). [1] [2] He stood just five feet high when he was unloaded from a sailing ship at New York ...
It is believed that the elephant walked the distance from Tiruchirappalli to Thrissur over several months. [2] [4] From 1906 to 1914, he carried the main idol during the Arattupuzha Pooram and was part of the Thiruvambady faction of the Thrissur Pooram. In 1914, during the Arattupuzha Pooram he was grievously gored by the tusker Akavoor Govindan.