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.
Elephant shrews or jumping shrews are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the Macroscelididae family, in the order Macroscelidea.
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.
Elephant
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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.
Elephant Seals
Elephant seals get their name from the adult males, which have a nose that looks rather like a short elephant trunk.
Elephant Seal
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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.
Elephant Enrichment (Beer Barrel Treats)
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"did you know that elephants eat about 495 lbs of food each day? isn't that amazing?!"
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Elephants
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African Elephant
Indian Elephant
This is the sole surviving family of mammals with trunks. There are currently only 2 species of elephant alive today.
Elephants and Humans
Elephants are regarded as among the most intelligent of mammals and can be trained to work and to perform.
Elephants are found mainly in warm climates: forests and open grasslands alike make a good home.
Elephants live in a complex matriarchal society normally composed of 8 to 15 related members and led by a dominant cow.
Elephant Diet
An elephant spends around 16 hours a day eating, drinking, bathing, dusting, wallowing, playing and 3 - 5 hours resting.
ELEPHANT SEAL
There are two species of elephant seal living in the southern and northern hemisphere respectively. This southern elephant seal, M. leonina, is found in Antarctic waters, while the northern species, M.
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.
Elephants are herbivores and require a great deal of food each day-more than 800 pounds per individual, daily. They eat grass, foliage, twigs, branches and fruit. Elephants are capable of uprooting over entire trees as they forage.
Elephant Seal Range
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Type: Mammal Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: 9 years (northern); 20 to 22 years (southern) Size: Up to 20 ft (6 m) Weight: Up to 8, ...
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The elephant is distinguished by its high level of intelligence, interesting behavior, methods of communication and complex social structure.
Elephants seem to be fascinated with the tusks and bones of dead elephants, fondling and examining them.
FOOD:
Elephants spend about 16 hours a day eating. Their diet is varied and includes grass, leaves, twigs, bark and fruit.
Elephant Seals of Point Reyes National Seashore
While sailing along the Pacific coast in the 1800s, a whale and seal hunter named Charles Scammon reported seeing northern elephant seals from Baja California in Mexico to Point Reyes in California.
Elephant shrews
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Elephant shrews
You may be mistaken for thinking that elephant shrews belong to the shrew family - they don't.
Elephant Migration? Elephant herds in the wild follow well defined seasonal migration routes.
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.
Elephants
Once common throughout Africa and Asia, elephant numbers were severely depleted the 19th century, largely due to the massive ivory trade.
The Elephant {Loxodonta Africana}
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Asian Elephants
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.
Asian ElephantElephas maximus
Location and Habitat
Asian elephants are located in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia.
Asian elephants
Sacred but exploited, the Asian elephant has been worshipped for centuries and is still used today for ceremonial and religious purposes.
African Elephant
Range
African elephants live in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, although their range is now broken into patches.
African Elephant
Loxodonta africana
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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.
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.
Elephants are very social animals, and learn about what to eat, where to find water and how to behave from their mothers and older bulls. Recently some orphaned bull elephants were killing rare rhinos in South Africa's Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Reserve.
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.
Elephants roam the African desert in groups called herds. They consist of families of elephants including young males, and related females, old and young. The leader of the herd is the oldest female and she is referred to as a 'matriarch.
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.
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.
Elephant seals once ranged from Magdalena Bay Baja California to the San Francisco Bay region.
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).
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Below you will find a collection of photos from various places. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2007. While these images are the property of mongabay.
Asian Elephant
Elephas maximus
Range:
Southeast Asia; parts of Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China (extinct in wild), Malaysia, Indonesia, and Borneo.
African Elephant
Mammal. 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.
Southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758), are named for their elephant trunk-like nose. Southern elephant seal adult males are larger than the females, and sizes also range within the same sex in this species.
Southern Elephant Seal
Mirounga leonina
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.
Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris)
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Dipodomys elephantinus - left (Dipodomys venustus - right)
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Notes
Elephant Seals can dive to a depth of 1,500m and stay under water for over an hour. Dives are more commonly up to 20-25 minutes at depths up to 350-650m.
Classification
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Diet: Elephants eat roots, grasses, leaves, fruit, and bark. They use their tusks and trunk to get food. These herbivores spend most of their time eating. Bulls can eat up to 300-600 pounds (130-260 kg) of food each day.
How long do elephants live?
The international wildlife photographer known as Primrose Girl told us this story about the elephant pictured at left, which she photographed in Kenya's Masai Mara National Park: ...
Note. African elephants tend to be somewhat taller than their Asian counterparts, but generally they don't outweigh them - some people define "larger" by height, while others define it by bulk - where height is concerned, Packy = very large elephant! ...
Aepyornis maximus, Elephant Bird
Ms. Amy Balanoff - Columbia University
Timothy Rowe - The University of Texas at Austin
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Elephants, Mammoths, Mastodons
There are only two species of Proboscidea alive today: the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus) and the African elephant (Loxodonta africana).
Elephant kills man in Limpopo
Kruger Park History Information: A man in his fifties was trampled to death by an elephant in the Madimbo area near Masisi in the Kruger National Park...
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Elephant
Unlike impala, it wasn't too hard to get good pictures of elephants. They mostly ignored the safari vehicles, but some like this one seemed to actually enjoy posing.
 See also: Panda, Giant Panda, Gorilla, Rhino, Red Panda
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