tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65343448989360735872024-02-08T01:47:58.950-08:00anomuumis feelingssup /b/anomuumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14660228646442473093noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534344898936073587.post-58159431705572285942010-08-30T01:37:00.001-07:002010-08-30T01:37:19.547-07:00something about elephants<b>Elephants</b> are large land <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal" title="Mammal">mammals</a> in two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus" title="Genus">genera</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_%28biology%29" title="Family (biology)">family</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantidae" title="Elephantidae">Elephantidae</a>: <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephas" title="Elephas">Elephas</a></i> and <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxodonta" title="Loxodonta">Loxodonta</a></i>. Three <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a> of elephant are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon" title="Extant taxon">living today</a>: the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_bush_elephant" title="African bush elephant">African bush elephant</a>, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_forest_elephant" title="African forest elephant">African forest elephant</a> and the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_elephant" title="Asian elephant">Asian elephant</a> (also known as the Indian elephant). All other species and genera of Elephantidae are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_species" title="Extinct species">extinct</a>, some since the last <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age" title="Ice age">ice age</a>: dwarf forms of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoths" title="Mammoths">mammoths</a> may have survived as late as 2,000 BC.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant#cite_note-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> Elephants and other Elephantidae were once classified with other thick-skinned animals in a now invalid <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_%28biology%29" title="Order (biology)">order</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachydermata" title="Pachydermata">Pachydermata</a>.<br />
Elephants are the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organism" title="Largest organism">largest</a> land animals now living.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NationalGeographicAfricanElephant_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant#cite_note-NationalGeographicAfricanElephant-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> The elephant's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestation" title="Gestation">gestation</a> period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kilograms (260 lb). They typically live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup> The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola" title="Angola">Angola</a> in 1956. This male weighed about 24,000 lb (11,000 kg),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup> with a shoulder height of 3.96 metres (13.0 ft), a metre (yard) taller than the average male African elephant.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup> The smallest elephants, about the size of a calf or a large pig, were a prehistoric species that lived on the island of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a> during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene" title="Pleistocene">Pleistocene</a> epoch.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup>anomuumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14660228646442473093noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534344898936073587.post-90533998483529058492010-08-30T01:22:00.001-07:002010-08-30T01:22:45.240-07:00hello anonanomuumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14660228646442473093noreply@blogger.com0