elaphant of africa
ELEPHANT is the largest living terrestrial animal, There are two types of elephant, the African elephant (Loxodonta Africana) and the Asia elephant, the later being smaller in size. The species have big round flapping ears with large blood vessels near ear surface which help the elephant to lose body hear and hence cool the body. Elephant have the upper lip fused with nose and elongated to form a trunk is useful as it act as a hand to touch, hold and pull things, breathing, sound amplifier and as container which enables an elephant to drink water There is sexual dimorphism between male and female elephant where males are bigger than females weighing up to 6 tonnes and 3 tonnes respectively, The upper incisors are modified and fused together to form two tusk one on the right and the other on the lift and develop outward up 2.5 meter and can weigh even more than 45 kg. Elephant tusk are used in various ways; however, there elephants that have no tusk...