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Elephants have long been revered and honored, and in Thailand, India, and other Southeast Asian countries, beautifully decorated elephants still play a significant role in traditional religious ceremonies.
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Asian elephants were historically found over three and a half million square miles of their namesake continent, but are now extinct in West Asia, Java, and most of China, ...
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Elephant Trails will feature:
A major transformation and expansion of the current building, featuring flexible elephant stalls.
A design concept that will allow elephants to live at the Zoo as a herd of related individuals.
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Elephants and Humans
Elephants are regarded as among the most intelligent of mammals and can be trained to work and to perform.
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Elephants are found mainly in warm climates: forests and open grasslands alike make a good home.
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Elephant shrews or jumping shrews are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the Macroscelididae family, in the order Macroscelidea.
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Elephant
Order: Proboscidea
Elephants are the largest land-dwelling mammals on earth. They are brown to dark gray in color and have long, coarse hairs sparsely covering their bodies. They have very thick skin that keeps them cool.
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Elephant Diet
An elephant spends around 16 hours a day eating, drinking, bathing, dusting, wallowing, playing and 3 - 5 hours resting.
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Elephant
From LoveToKnow 1911
ELEPHANT, the designation of the two existing representatives of the Proboscidea, a sub-order of ungulate mammals, and also extended to include their more immediate extinct relatives.
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Elephant Enrichment (Beer Barrel Treats)
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A volunteer prepares treats consisting of apples, bananas, oranges, and carrots dropping them inside a clean metal beer keg. Mari is observing the process.
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Elephant (Asian) Asian elephant: Elephas maximus Distribution: Mountainous parts of India, Indo-China, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia & Southern China. Habitat: Mainly jungle - near a good supply of water.
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Elephants have very strong social bonds and live in family groups headed by a female (called a cow). Males (called bulls) occasionally join the group. Elephants are excellent swimmers.
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Elephant facts
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Elephant (Loxodonta africana)
These creatures are truly amazing, being not only the largest mammal on the planet, but their appearance and even their everyday behaviour.
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Elephants
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Elephants choose from the links below for animals found at the Zoo: Asian Elephant ...
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Elephant
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FOOD:
Elephants spend about 16 hours a day eating. Their diet is varied and includes grass, leaves, twigs, bark and fruit.
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Elephant Home
Mammal Home
Loxodonta is a genus in Elephantidae, the family of elephants and is divided into two species.
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Elephants hold aesthetic, cultural and economic importance in Sri Lanka. They are used for carrying timber and have a special significance and role in religious events.
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Elephants are herbivores, which means they eat only plants. They usually consume 200 to 300 kg (440 to 660 lb.) of plant matter and 160 litres (42 gal.) of water in a day.
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Asian elephants differ in several ways from their African relatives. They have smaller ears which are straight at the bottom, unlike the large fan-shape ears of the African species.
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Elephants live in a complex matriarchal society normally composed of 8 to 15 related members and led by a dominant cow.
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Elephants, like humans, have a great impact upon their environment. Elephants are referred to as a keystone species, a species upon which many other organisms depend.
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Elephant ivory was one used as a source of all kinds of ornaments. In 1989 international laws against "ivory-trading" were created to help declining elephant populations recover.
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Elephants are herbivores, meaning they only eat plant material. Elephants eat a variety of plant material including grasses, tree leaves and twigs, vines, shrubs, tubers and fruits.
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Elephants have many unique features and are superbly adapted to their environment. They use their large ears for thermoregulation to cool themselves in the hot equatorial sun. As the elephant flaps its ears, blood vessels in the ear are cooled.
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Elephant:
Commitment
To read about the elephant is to have a glimpse into the life of an animal who is so curiously like and yet so unlike our own species.
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Elephantulus rufescens (animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu) Mammals of Tanzania: species page (fieldmuseum.org) IUCN Red List information (iucnredlist.org) Rufous Elephant Shrew (wikipedia.org) ...
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Elephants are hunted for their ivory tusks. Therefore, their population is dropping. When they are protected, they usually overpopulate their habitat. Then, some of the elephants, starting with the youth, starve.
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Elephants now occupy around 5.3 million sq km (2.0 million sq mi) of their former range of 30 million sq km (11.5 million sq mi) (Leader-Williams 1996, Blanc et al. 2003).
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* Elephants create water holes by digging in dry riverbeds. They coat themselves with mud from the waters edge to protect from the sun and parasites, which creates a larger water hole.
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The elephants are given tires, barrels, and other "behavioral enrichment" toys. The FW Zoo has a coordinator of enrichment. The coordinator observes how the animals use the toys they are given. Example of an enrichment activity.
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Giant elephant shrew - RHYNCHOCYON CIRNEI Possibly Endangered Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia) Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria) Order: Big Pests (?) (Macroscelidia) Family: Macroscelididae.
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Asian ElephantElephas maximus Range: Southeast Asia; parts of Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China (extinct in wild), Malaysia, Indonesia, and Borneo.
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African ElephantMammal. The largest living land mammal, the African elephant weighs 3500 to 7000 kilograms (3.5 to 7 tons) and stands 3.4 meters (11 feet) high.
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Dipodomys elephantinus - left (Dipodomys venustus - right)
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The Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) is a huge beast. Males can be 14 or 15 feet long and weigh 7000 pounds or more. Females average 7 to 8 feet long and weight 1500 pounds or so.
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Training the Elephant
by Nora N. Stanley
This article originally appeared in SQUAWK, the newsletter of the Big Apple Bird Association and is reprinted with permission.
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Aepyornis maximus, Elephant BirdMs. Amy Balanoff - Columbia University Timothy Rowe - The University of Texas at Austin Java Slice Viewer ...
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The Animal Welfare Institute, another plaintiff in the case, is siding with Tom Rider, who reportedly witnessed the abuse of the Asian elephants first-hand.
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ELEPHANT, largest living land mammal, and the only remaining representative of the order Proboscidae, which during the Pleistocene period roamed every landmass except Australia and Antarctica.
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Elephant seals get their name from their great size (the Southern Elephant Seal is the larger of the two species) and the fact that the adult males have a large proboscis, which is used in making extraordinarily loud roaring noises, ...
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Elephants once roamed the African savannah in their thousands forming vast herds which followed the seasonal migrations. Beginning in the 16th century, they were hunted commercially for their ivory.
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Elephant fish, Callorhinchus callorynchus (Linnaeus, 1758) Cape elephantfish, Callorhinchus capensis (Duméril, 1865) Australian ghost shark, Callorhinchus milii Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1823 Family Chimaeridae ...
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ElephantHas hearing range between 1 and 20,000 Hz. The very low frequency sounds are in the "infrasound" range. Humans cannot hear sounds in the infrasound range. Falcon ...
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Elephants are very large. They have large ears and trunks. Males have tusks. They are herbivores and can live for 60 or more years. Top Rodentia - squirrels, chipmunks, rats, mice, voles, beavers, lemmings ...
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My elephant nose are now eating bloodworms and tiny bits of earthworms from my hand.
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The Elephant Bird The Cassowary Bird Almost All Birds Native to Hawaii Threatened with Extinction Methods of Wild Bird Identification Different Types of Birds A Bird Made of Sulphur Bird Identification: Wild Bird Species Identification ...
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sea-elephants
the biggest representatives of the seals puts the sea-elephants, that with two types to the north of the 60 the sub-arctic islands. live in southern d...
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Project ElephantWant to learn all about African elephants? Check out this unique part of the web site, which is made possible by Cinergy.
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African ElephantGet a load of the world's largest land mammal. Find out how the African elephant's impressive tusks help it survive, but have also been its downfall. Learn More ...
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