Sri Lankan Elephant

Sri Lankan Elephant Physical Characteristics

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Proboscidea

Family: Elephantidae

Genus: Elephas

Scientific Name: Elephas Maximus Maximus

Type: Mammal

Diet: Herbivore

Size (H): 2m - 3m (7ft - 10ft)

Weight: 3,000kg - 5,000kg (6,500lbs - 11,000lbs)

Top Speed: 43km/h (27mph)

Lifespan: 55 - 70 years

Lifestyle: Herd

Conservation Status: Endangered

Colour: Grey, Brown, Black

Skin Type: Leather

Favourite Food: Grass

Habitat: Rainforest and tropical woodland

Average Litter Size: 1

Main Prey: Grass, Fruit, Roots

Predators: Human, Tiger

Distinctive Features: Long trunk and large feet

The Sri Lankan elephant is a sub-types of Asian elephant which incorporates the Indian elephant, the Sumatran elephant, the Sri-Lanka elephant and the Borneo elephant. The Sri Lankan elephant is the biggest of all the Asian elephant sub-species and is believed to be most firmly identified with the Indian elephant.

As its name recommends, the Sri Lankan elephant is found on the Island of Sri Lanka and is thought to have landed there from southern India. In spite of once wandering the Island, the Sri Lankan elephant is presently confined to only a couple assigned National stops as the Sri Lankan elephants normal living space gets transformed into yield fields.

The Sri Lankan elephant has littler ears than the African elephant and the Sri Lankan elephant additionally has a more bended spine than the African elephant. In contrast to the African elephants, the female Sri Lankan elephants seldom have tusks, and if the female Sri Lankan elephant has tusks, they are commonly scarcely noticeable and must be seen when the female Sri Lankan elephant opens her mouth.

The Sri Lankan elephant pursues severe relocation courses that are dictated by the storm season. The oldest elephant of the Sri Lankan elephant crowd is in charge of recalling the relocation course of its Sri Lankan elephant group. This Sri Lankan elephant relocation for the most part happens between the wet and dry seasons and issues emerged when homesteads where worked along the transient courses of the Sri Lankan elephant groups, as the Sri Lankan elephants made a lot of decimation the recently established farmland.

Sri Lankan elephants are herbivorous creatures implying that they just eat plants and plant matter so as to increase the majority of the supplements that they have to endure. Sri Lankan elephants eat a wide assortment of vegetation including grasses, leaves, shoots, barks, organic products, nuts and seeds. Sri Lankan elephants frequently utilize their long trunk to help them in social occasion nourishment.

Because of their huge size, Sri Lankan elephants include not many predators inside their regular habitat. Other than human trackers, tigers are the essential predator of the Sri Lankan elephant, despite the fact that they will in general chase the littler Sri Lankan elephant calves as opposed to the a lot bigger and more grounded grown-ups.

Female Sri Lankan elephants are commonly ready to breed when they are 10 years of age, and bring forth a solitary Sri Lankan elephant calf following a multi month development period. At the point when the Sri Lankan elephant calf is first conceived, it weighs around 100 kg, and is thought about not just by it's mom by likewise by other female Sri Lankan elephants in the crowd (known as aunts). The baby Sri Lankan elephant stays with its mom until it is around 5 years of age and gains its autonomy, with guys regularly leaving the group and female calves remaining.

Today, the Sri Lankan elephant is viewed as a creature that is in impending peril of getting to be wiped out because of the way that Sri Lankan elephant populaces have been declining at a basic rate. Sri Lankan elephants are believed to endure principally because of living space misfortune as deforestation and chasing for their ivory tusks by human poachers.