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In the human and the elephant, the column orientation of the foot complex is replaced in humans by a plantigrade orientation, and in elephants by a semi-plantigrade alignment of the hind limb foot structure. [6] This difference in orientation in the foot bones and joints of humans and elephants helps them to adapt to variations in the terrain. [17]
The trunk's extreme flexibility allows it to forage and wrestle other elephants with it. It is powerful enough to lift up to 350 kg (770 lb), but it also has the precision to crack a peanut shell without breaking the seed. With its trunk, an elephant can reach items up to 7 m (23 ft) high and dig for water in the mud or sand below.
English: A random mutation in the DNA of elephants caused some elephants to have long trunks and some to have short trunks. The overproduction of elephants caused resources to become scare, so the elephants had to compete for food.
(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’s trunk is more heavily ringed than an Asian elephant ...
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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 ...
A male African bush elephant skull on display at the Museum of Osteology. African elephants have grey folded skin up to 30 mm (1.2 in) thick that is covered with sparse, bristled dark-brown to black hair. Short tactile hair grows on the trunk, which has two finger-like processes at the tip, whereas Asian elephants only have one. [7]
[3] and the tip of the trunk has two finger-like processes. [13] The African forest elephant's tusks are straight and point downwards, [4] and are present in both males and females. [13] The African forest elephant has pink tusks, which are thinner and harder than the tusks of the African bush elephant. The length and diameter vary between ...