Mammals Elephant

Three species are currently recognised. African elephants are the biggest land animals.

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African elephants are a keystone species meaning they play a critical role in their ecosystem also known as ecosystem engineers elephants shape their habitat in many ways.

Mammals elephant. Elephants are the largest land mammals on earth and have distinctly massive bodies large ears and long trunks. During the dry. Elephants are mammals of the family elephantidae and the largest existing land animals.

The african bush elephant the african forest elephant and the asian elephant elephantidae is the only surviving family of the order proboscidea. There are two major types of elephants the african elephant two species and the asian elephant one species. The trunk or proboscis of the elephant is one of the most versatile organs to have evolved among mammals this structure is unique to members of the order proboscidea which includes the extinct mastodons and mammoths.

Extinct members include the mastodons the family elephantidae also contains several now extinct groups including the. Asian elephants are slightly smaller. Form and function the trunk proboscis.

The nostrils are located at the tip. The elephantidae are a family of large herbivorous mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths these are terrestrial large mammals with a snout modified into a trunk and teeth modified into tusks most genera and species in the family are extinct only two genera loxodonta african elephants and elephas asiatic elephants are living. Anatomically the trunk is a combination of the upper lip and nose.

Elephants have very strong social bonds and live in family groups headed by a female called a cow males called bulls occasionally join the group. The family was first described by john edward gray. Elephants are excellent sw.

They use their trunks to pick up objects trumpet warnings greet other elephants or suck up water for drinking or bathing among other uses.

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