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One study of a captive female Asian elephant suggested the animal was capable of learning and distinguishing between several visual and some acoustic discrimination pairs. This individual was even able to score a high accuracy rating when re-tested with the same visual pairs a year later. [142] Elephants are among the species known to use tools.
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). As with other African elephants, both sexes have straight ...
The nourishment provided by the female elephant is rich in both fat and protein. Elephant milk contains 100 times more protein compared to the more familiar cow’s milk. An elephant calf nurses ...
In 1936, Glover Morrill Allen considered this elephant to be a distinct species and called it the 'forest elephant'; [6] later authors considered it to be a subspecies. [7] [8] Morphological and genetic analyses have since provided evidence for species-level differences between the African bush elephant and the African forest elephant.
Female elephants usually give birth for the first time when they are between 12 and 16 years old. They continue to reproduce until they are around 50 years old, although fertility declines with age.
1 Characteristics. 2 ... The Borneo elephant, also called the Bornean ... Five measurements of the skull of a fully adult female elephant from Gomantong ...
A female ovulates once about every 115 days and if fertilized, the gestation period is about 22 months, the longest gestation period of any animal. [10] An Elephant with her calf. Most often, a female gives birth to a single calf (occasionally two might be born), which may weigh between 68–158 kg (150–348 lb). [10]
A conservation group said an elephant in Kenya gave birth to a rare set of twins on Friday. The twins, both female, were born in the Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya to a mother named ...