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A cute baby elephant in an elephant camp in Krabi, Thailand.
Come to Paradise with me in my blog: A Return To Krabi, part 1 and A Return To Krabi, part 2
*Note: More pics of Pets, Dogs, Cats and other Domestic Animals in my Domestic Animals Album.
Taken at Ruckomechi Camp, Zimbabwe.
I waited, still, while this huge animal walked over our boardwalk, so that I could move from our hut to the main huts.
When I started to walk it was not happy and showed me.
Naturally I stopped.
I said "Ok, you da man."
Botswana, Kasane.
Chobe river.
Chobe National Park is probably best known for its spectacular elephant sightings the population is estimated at around 70,000 elephants today, Chobe National Park is said to have the highest concentration of elephants in Africa.
Elephants living here are Kalahari elephants, the largest in size of all known elephant subspecies. Yet they are characterized by rather brittle ivory and short tusks, most likely due to calcium deficiency in the soil.
Two more of the Borneo Pygmy Elephants. Probably the biggest threat to the species is the large scale clearing of the forest for the confounded oil palm plantation. Apart from habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population 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. Expanding human development disrupts their migration routes, depletes their food sources, and destroys their habitat. (Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia, Nov. 2013)
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A Rescue Elephant at Anantara Elephant camp In Chiang Mai Thailand comes for breakfast with the guests each day. She likes bananas
African Elephant
Description
Body rotund ; skin nearly hairless ,grey or brownish and wrinkled.
A creature as big as a truck, with a nose as long as it's legs that functions as a siphon,snorkel (on deep water crossings),squirt-gun,trumpet,& feeding tool powerful enough to rip branches from trees but delicate enough ,with finger like projections at the tip,to pickup a pea. Such a bulky,compact body is subject to overheating , so elephants must have shade or water holes at midday . Huge,sail like ears also dissipate heat from veins lying just under the skin. Tusks which occur in both sexes are upper incisors that never stop growing.
Habitat
Rain forests to sub deserts ,swamps and sea shores
Breeding
Most mating and births occur during rainy season;1 calf born after gestation of 22 months, the LONGEST in mammals
Facts
A cohesive herd 9-11 females and their calves is the basic social unit, led by the biggest oldest cow(matriarch)
Males leave the herd at puberty, when they are 12 years old, and spend rest of their lives alternately associating with other males and wandering alone.
ELEPHANTS ARE RARE OUTSIDE RESERVES BECAUSE OF EXCESSIVE HUNTING FOR TUSKS
The African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger of the two species of African elephant. Both it and the African Forest Elephant have usually been classified as a single species, known simply as the African Elephant. Some authorities still consider the currently available evidence insufficient for splitting the African Elephant into two species. It is also known as the Bush Elephant or Savanna Elephant.
The African Elephant is the largest living terrestrial animal, normally reaching 6 to 7.3 metres (19.7 to 24.0 ft) in length and 3 to 3.5 metres (9.8 to 11.5 ft) in height at the head, and weighing between 6,000 to 9,000 kg (13,000 to 20,000 lb).
The largest on record, shot in Angola in 1965, was a bull weighing 12,274 kg (27,060 lb) and standing 4.2 metres (13.8 ft) high, the body of which is now mounted in the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.. (The museum's website states that the specimen weighs only 8 tons[4].) The Bush Elephant normally moves at a rate of 6 km/h (4 mph), but it can reach a top speed of 40 km/h (25 mph) when scared or upset.
The animal is characterized by its large head; two large ears that cover its shoulders and radiate excess heat; a large and muscular trunk; two prominent tusks, which are well-developed in both sexes, although more commonly in males; a short neck; a large, barrel-like body; four long and heavy legs; and a relatively short tail.
The animal is protected by a heavy but flexible layer of gray-brown skin, dotted with mostly undeveloped patches of hair and long, black hair at the tip of its tail. Its back feet have three toes that form a hoof, while the number of toes on the front feet have varied between four and five. The forehead is smoother and less convex than that of the Asian Elephant.
The trunk is the most characteristic feature of the African Bush Elephant. It is formed by the fusion and elongation of the nose and upper lip, forming a flexible and strong organ made purely of muscle.
Little scientific research has been carried out into elephants' cognitive or perceptual abilities. An exception is a recent report that African Bush Elephants are able to use seismic vibrations at infrasound frequencies for communication
Wild Animal Park Escondido Ca.
The African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger of the two species of African elephant. Both it and the African Forest Elephant have usually been classified as a single species, known simply as the African Elephant. Some authorities still consider the currently available evidence insufficient for splitting the African Elephant into two species. It is also known as the Bush Elephant or Savanna Elephant.
The African Elephant is the largest living terrestrial animal, normally reaching 6 to 7.3 metres (19.7 to 24.0 ft) in length and 3 to 3.5 metres (9.8 to 11.5 ft) in height at the head, and weighing between 6,000 to 9,000 kg (13,000 to 20,000 lb).
The largest on record, shot in Angola in 1965, was a bull weighing 12,274 kg (27,060 lb) and standing 4.2 metres (13.8 ft) high, the body of which is now mounted in the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.. (The museum's website states that the specimen weighs only 8 tons.) The Bush Elephant normally moves at a rate of 6 km/h (4 mph), but it can reach a top speed of 40 km/h (25 mph) when scared or upset.
The animal is characterized by its large head; two large ears that cover its shoulders and radiate excess heat; a large and muscular trunk; two prominent tusks, which are well-developed in both sexes, although more commonly in males; a short neck; a large, barrel-like body; four long and heavy legs; and a relatively short tail.
The animal is protected by a heavy but flexible layer of gray-brown skin, dotted with mostly undeveloped patches of hair and long, black hair at the tip of its tail. Its back feet have three toes that form a hoof, while the number of toes on the front feet have varied between four and five. The forehead is smoother and less convex than that of the Asian Elephant.
The trunk is the most characteristic feature of the African Bush Elephant. It is formed by the fusion and elongation of the nose and upper lip, forming a flexible and strong organ made purely of muscle.
Little scientific research has been carried out into elephants' cognitive or perceptual abilities. An exception is a recent report that African Bush Elephants are able to use seismic vibrations at infrasound frequencies for communication
Wild Animal Park Escondido Ca.
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