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Description Common Name: Elephant
Common Name Synonyms: Asian Elephant
Scientific Name: Elephas maximus
Size: 550-640cm from head to tail, 250-300cm tall in the shoulders. Females are 35% smaller than males
Classification: Afrothere
Habitat: Savannas, Grasslands, Jungles
Diet: Herbivorous, diet consisted of herbs, leaves, grass
Description: A close relative to a woolly mammoth, the elephant was one of the most iconic animals in the world. These animals are complete popular in religions and cultural history in Thailand, India, and Vietnam for example. Not only that they are popular in Kipling's stories, like Toomai and the Elephants, and the Jungle Book. But enough about this stuff that featured elephants as main, minor, and background characters, elephants are close relatives to, not only the woolly mammoth, but the loxodonta(a.k.a. the African elephants). For the differences, A: elephants have smaller ears than loxodonts. B: They are smaller than the bush loxodonts. And C: The elephants' backs are sloped from shoulder to rump, yet a lot more round, so the dome-like head will be the highest point of the body. On Earth and on the fictional planet Ingitiszoa, that elephants are semi-domesticated. In the past, humans used elephants for hunting big predators like Asian lions, Royal Bengal tigers, Indian leopards, and rarely striped hyenas. But hunting elephants for their tusks is highly illegal, which makes the elephants being the most Endangered Species(but the loxodonts have been the only elephants that are the Threatened Species, which they are classified as Vulnerable). Anyways, on present day, humans used elephants for safari tourism throughout Asia. Most elephants lived in herds, which consisted of females and their offspring, all lead by the most experienced, the oldest, and/or the largest of the cows of her kind, the matriarch. But adult males of the herds are dispersed from their mothers upon reaching adolescence. Males are solitary, or that they lived in bachelor herds. Males have tusks, used for fighting, digging, and defense. But females, have no tusks, but if they have little tusks, the females' little tusks are called "tushes." Tushes can be visible, only seen when their mouth is open. As a fact, all pachyderms have great intelligence, compared to these intelligent forms, like dolphins, apes, humans, black bears, spotted hyenas, tigers, raccoons, and other animals who are highly intelligent. Their trunks are noses, used for smell, drinking water, communication, and touch.

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995  
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Comments: 3

bear48 [2016-07-12 02:32:41 +0000 UTC]

cool 

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Patchi1995 In reply to bear48 [2016-09-04 18:27:58 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Patchi1995 [2016-06-29 18:18:23 +0000 UTC]

I note that the depigmented skin color was for both males and females.

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