Elephants

Description: At a sizeable height of up to 11 feet tall, the African elephant is slightly larger than its relative, the Indian Elephant. On average, the male African elephant (called a bull) weighs up to 13000 pounds. Its ears are also much larger than the Indian elephant's ears, and its trunk has two lips Elephants are the only living representatives of their order, which was once widespread over most of the world; it included the mammoth and the mastodon. Elephants are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Proboscides, family Elephantidae. This is the classification of an African elephant. One thing that many people get confused with is how do you tell an African elephant apart from an Asian elephant. Well it is all answered if you look at his ears! The African elephants ears are much longer than an Asian elephants! The African elephant is a herbivore that favors mostly grasses, but also eats leaves, twigs, branches and bark. Since their bodie...