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Hace 2 días · Three species of living elephants are recognised; the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) and Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). African elephants were traditionally considered a single species, Loxodonta africana , but molecular studies have affirmed their status as separate species.
21 de may. de 2024 · The Elephant Database is the largest online elephant database in the world and also possibly the largest database of animal individual animal records. Updated almost daily it presently presents 8943 captive living elephants , and 3895 location facilities from 125 countries in 6 continent regions , as a neutral unbiased documentation.
21 de may. de 2024 · Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous mammals, belonging to the mammal order of Proboscidea, collectively called elephants and mammoths first described by John Edward Gray in 1821. The word elephant derives from the Greek word Elephas, with a non-Indo-European language lineage, likely Phoenician, and while Homer (Homerus ...
27 de may. de 2024 · The elephant is the largest land animal in the world. These massive giants exhibit all kinds of complex behavior that in some ways mirror our own behavior but in other ways are distinct and unique to them.
Hace 3 días · The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south.
14 de may. de 2024 · When humans meet up with a companion they haven’t seen for a while, they may wave, shake hands or hug while saying something like, “Hey, how are you?”. Now, new research suggests African ...
Hace 6 días · Elephants are gentle creatures that captivate our hearts and imaginations. There are three elephant species on the Earth today—African savanna elephants, African forest elephants, and Asian...
