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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 pre-eminent threats to the Asian elephant today are habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population, and lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops. Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts.
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 ...
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]
Newly released images from an Indonesian zoo have animal lovers up in arms this week. The heartbreaking photos show Yani, a Sumatran female elephant, sobbing moments before she passed away on ...
This laidback female elephant is easy to identify because she has the shortest tail in the group. Mai Thai also has a quarter-sized hole in her left ear and downward-sloping ears with minimal folding.
African forest elephants in a waterhole Group of African forest elephants digging at a mineral lick A female with her calf drinking from a spring. The African forest elephant lives in family groups. Groups observed in the rain forest of Gabon's Lopé National Park between 1984 and 1991 comprised between three and eight individuals. [27]
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.