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Communication between the elephants

How do elephants communicate? Since elephants are not “loners”, but live in a herds, they need several possibilities of communicating with each other. The trunk, the ears, the tail, body language and naturally also ...

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Bottle fed elephantbaby – Upali

Who is Upali? Upali was born after a gestation of 662 days, on November 14, 1994 at 3.15 a.m. After Komali and Panang, Upali was Ceyla’s 3rd birth. 2 Weeks later, Upali withdrew, became ...

The birth of an elephant

Why are elephant births important? Every birth of an elephant, as well as in nature as in zoos, is very important for species conservation because both African and Asian elephants are menaced of extinction. Why ...

Bigness and weight of the elephants

How heavy is a fully-grown elephant? An approximately 20-year-old Asian elephant cow weighs 3500 – 4500 kg on average, and measures around 2.6 metres at the back. An elephant bull weighs about 5000 – ...

Asian elephants

Are there different sub-species? The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) can be divided by the zoologists in three subspecies: Ceylon elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) from Ceylon and/or SriLanka Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) or also ...

Anatomy of the elephants

How is a skeleton built up? As for all mammals the elephant’s skeleton is made up of skull, spinal column, extremities, ribs and breastbone. Since the different elephant species have different numbers of thoracic, ...

African elephants

Are there different elephant species? The African elephant can be divided into 2 subspecies: Steppe elephant (Loxodonta africana africana) The steppe elephant settles in different habitats from the open grass country to wooded regions including ...

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