Elephant

Elephant are the largest living land mammals. It has four thick legs, two wide hanging ears and two small black eyes. Its most obvious part is the trunk which made from upper lip. Its trunk is very soft and sensitive and it uses to grab objects such as food and water or can be a weapon to defense it self from the other animal. Elephant has a short tail behind its body. Elephant is a tame herbivore animal. It likes to eat some plants such as grass, small trees, fruit, leaves and etc. But if it becomes angry, it becomes a dangerous animal. Elephant usually does the activities at the morning until evening. Because elephant is mammals so it has baby not egg.
    The body of the female elephant is bigger than the body of the male elephant. It can live for up to 70 years. It runs about 40-60 km per second. It consumes 495 pounds of food everyday which spends about 16 hours to fill its need. Elephant has the biggest brain in the animal kingdom so, its very intelligent animal and makes an elephant a very useful servant to humans. It can carry heavy loads or as an attraction animal in circus. There are Indian elephant, African elephant and Asian elephant. They are very large and grey. African elephants have large fan-shaped ears and two “fingers” at the tip of its trunk. Furthermore, the Indian Elephant is described as Elephas maximus of south-central Asia. The ears of Indian elephants are significantly smaller than African elephants. Some African elephants live on the savanna while others live in the forest. Today, many people think these are different species. Scientists named the forest group Loxodonta cyclotis and the savanna group Loxodonta africanus. There, the estimated elephant population was 400,000 as recently as 1970, but by 2006 the number had dwindled to about 10,000. African elephants can eat up to 450 kilograms (992 lb) of vegetation per day. In general, Asian elephants are smaller than african elephants and have the highest body point on the head. The tip of their trunk has one finger-like process. Their back is convex or level. Indian elephants reach a shoulder height of between 2 and 3.5 m (6.6 and 11.5 ft), weigh between 2,000 and 5,000 kg (4,400 and 11,000 lb), and have 19 pairs of ribs. Their skin color is lighter than of maximus with smaller patches of depigmentation, but darker than of sumatranus. Females are usually smaller than males, and have short or no tusks.
The largest Indian elephant was 3.43 metres (11.3 ft) high at the shoulder. Elephants are classified as megaherbivore and consume up to 150 kg (330 lb) of plant matter per day. Indian elephants have smaller ears, but relatively broader skulls and larger trunks than African elephants.
    Unlike their African cousins, their abdomen is proportionate with their body weight but the African elephant has a large abdomen as compared to the skulls. Elephant has 24 teeth, 12 front teeth called pre-molars and the 12 back teeth called molars. When the last molar wears out, the elephant dies because it cannot chewing. But in a zoo or circus, people can keep elephants alive bye feeding them soft food.