Asian Elephant

Asian Elephant Physical Characteristics 
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Genus: Elephas
Scientific Name: Elephas 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
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Asian Elephants are a lot littler than the African elephants just developing to two or three meters tall. Asian elephants are found in the tropical wildernesses of India and China, and all through most nations in south-east Asia.

Asian elephants have been trained for many years for foresting and frequently fight. There are numerous spots crosswise over Asia where Asian elephants are kept for travelers to ride, and are frequently treated reasonably severely. Asian elephants are notable for their huge quality and neighborliness towards people.

Today, the Asian elephant is viewed as an imperiled species with just around 50,000 remaining in nature. This is because of the loss of environment of the Asian elephant and unlawful poachers chasing the Asian elephant, for their skins and ivory.

The Asian elephant has littler ears than the African elephant and the Asian elephant likewise has a more bended spine than the African elephant. In contrast to the African elephants, the female Asian elephant very once in a while have tusks, and if the female Asian elephant has tusks, they are commonly scarcely unmistakable and must be seen when the female Asian elephant opens her mouth.

The Asian elephant pursues strict movement courses that are controlled by the rainstorm season. The oldest elephant of the Asian elephant group is in charge of recalling the relocation course of its Asian elephant crowd. This Asian elephant relocation by and large happens between the wet and dry seasons and issues emerged when ranches where worked along the transient courses of the Asian elephant crowds, as the Asian elephants made a lot of devastation the recently established farmland.

Asian 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. Asian elephants eat a wide assortment of vegetation including grasses, leaves, shoots, barks, natural products, nuts and seeds. Asian elephants frequently utilize their long trunk to help them in social affair sustenance.

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

Female Asian elephants are commonly ready to breed when they are 10 years of age, and bring forth a solitary Asian elephant calf following a multi month development period. At the point when the Asian elephant calf is first conceived, it weighs around 100 kg, and is thought about by its mom as well as by other female Asian elephants in the crowd (known as aunts). The baby Asian elephant stays with its mom until it is around 5 years of age and gains its freedom, with guys regularly leaving the group and female calves remaining.

Today, the Asian elephant is viewed as a creature that is in impending risk of getting to be wiped out because of the way that Asian elephant populaces have been declining at a basic rate. Asian elephants are believed to endure essentially because of natural surroundings misfortune as deforestation and chasing for their ivory tusks by human poachers.

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