Indian Elephant
Elephas indicus
Also Called: Asian Elephant
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Indian Elephant
Common Name: Indian elephant
Scientific Name: Elephas maximus indicus
Location: South Asia ...
Indian elephants confront a king cobra at a rainforest pool.
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Indian elephant (Elephas maximus bengalensis); Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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* Indian elephant (E. m. indicus) Officially The National Animal of Bharat (Hindustan)
* Sri Lankan elephant (E. m. maximus)
* Sumatran elephant (E. m. sumatrensis)
* Borneo elephant (E. m. borneensis) ...
Modern-day Indian elephants are related to Woolly Mammoths.
Mammoths (genus Mammuthus) are extinct elephant-like animals that were adapted to cold weather.
Indian elephants are extensively used as beasts of burden, especially in teak forests, where they carry logs with their trunks.
The bones of the skeleton generally more resemble those of the Indian elephant than of any other species, but the skull differs in the narrower summit, narrower temporal fossae, and more prolonged incisive sheaths, ...
There are three living species: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant (until recently known collectively as the African Elephant), and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant).
A single bite can kill an Indian elephant in three hours, provided a vulnerable spot is bitten. The fangs of the king cobra are around 15mm long, but can deliver more venom than any other snake except the gaboon viper.
There are only two species of Proboscidea alive today: the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus) and the African elephant (Loxodonta africana). In the past, however, a diversity of unusual elephant relatives traversed areas around the world.
While most extant species assigned to the cohort Afrotheria live in Africa, some (such as the Indian elephant and three out of four species of sirenian) occur elsewhere; many of these are endangered as well.
Asian elephant
the Asian elephant marks wrongly as "Indian elephants", whom however, actually only one of the 4 living subtypes of the Asian elephant is, we often. ...
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There are two types of elephants, the Indian Elephant and the African Elephant.
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The African Elephant is the largest land animal.
There are four subspecies of Asian elephants, these include the Borneo elephant, the Sumatran elephant, the Indian elephant and the Sri Lankan elephant.
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It is thought that Egypt was the elephants ancestral home, from which it migrated to Asia, Europe, and North and South America. There are two living genera, the asiatic or Indian elephant of India and a South East Asia and African elephant now found ...
In rare cases tigers attack Malayan tapirs (Tapirus indicus), Indian elephants (Elephas maximus), and young Indian rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros unicornis).
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Elephas maximus the Asian elephant with
E.m. indicus the Indian elephant
E.m. maximus the Sri Lankan elephant
E.m. sumatrensis the Sumatran elephant
E.m. borneensis the Borneo elephant ...
The Asian elephant is found in the dense forests and grassy plains of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya and Sumatra. This species is sometimes called the Indian elephant.
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 See also: Elephant, African Elephant, Asian Elephant, Bull, Mammoth
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