What are the characteristics of an Asian elephant? What are the habits of Asian elephants?

Proboscis Elephantaceae, the nose length can drop to the ground, and there is a fleshy process on the anterior margin. The maxillary incisors protrude outwards and are slightly upturned, and the incisors of adult males can reach 150 180 cm long. The ears are smaller as compared to African elephants.

The limbs are thick and cylindrical, with 5 fingers on the forelimbs and 4 limbs on the hind limbs, and the tail is short and thin. The skin is thick and wrinkled, with sparse coarse hairs all over the body, and the body color is pale gray or dark gray. The gestation period is an average of 646 days, with 1 litter per litter.

Under rearing conditions, the lifespan can reach 69 years. China is distributed in the southern part of Yunnan and is a national first-class protected animal.

Asian elephantsLikes to live in groups, with several or dozens of heads per herd, is led by an adult female as the leader of the herd, has no fixed residence, and has a wide range of activities.

Elephant because of less hair, easy to get sick, so need to take a bath or do mud bath often, elephant skin thick, wrinkles, some wrinkles up to more than ten centimeters deep, light gray, because the mud bath sometimes looks like the reddish brown of the earth, brown eyes long eye hair, there is a rare albino image, white elephant eyes are generally blue.

Elephants normally walk 3 to 6 kilometers a day to forage for food, but they can run quickly and reach speeds of up to 36 kilometers per hour.

Species distribution of Asian elephants:

The Asian elephant is mainly distributed in 13 countries including India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia, covering about 440,000 square kilometers of land in Southeast Asia and South Asia.

In ancient times, they were active from the two river basins in West Asia to the Yellow River basin in China in the east. At present, only the area of Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province can be found in China.

China distribution: China distribution is the edge of its distribution area, which has been recorded in Xishuangbanna (Mengla, Jinghong) and Jiangcheng in southern Yunnan; Ximeng (Yuesong), Cangyuan (Nanluanhe) in southwestern Yunnan and Yingjiang (Nabangba) in western Yunnan.

Worldwide: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Malaysia.

The above content refers to the encyclopedia of Asian elephants.

Elephants inhabit a variety of habitats, especially jungles, grasslands and river valleys. They live in groups, and the males occasionally live alone. Feeds on plants, eating a large amount, with a daily diet of more than 225 kg.

The lifespan is about 80 years. Ivory has always been used as a valuable carving material, but it is expensive, so elephants have been hunted indiscriminately and their numbers have dropped dramatically.

Elephant due to less hair, easy to get sick, so need to take a bath or mud bath often, elephant skin thick, wrinkles, some wrinkles up to more than ten centimeters deep, light gray, because the mud bath sometimes looks like the reddish brown of the earth, brown eyes long eye hair, there is a rare albino image, white elephant eyes are generally blue.

Elephants regularly feed on rocks or mud rich in mineral salts to replenish their salt and nutrients. They are also particularly fond of bathing, and there are many types of baths: clean water baths, mud baths, dust baths, etc.

The main differences between African elephant and Asian elephant are:1. The classification of subjects is different: African elephants are proboscis orders, elephants, African loxonodons, African savannah elephants, and African forest elephants; The Asian elephant is a proboscis order, elephant family, Asian elephant genus, and Asian elephant species.

2. Different morphological characteristics: The ears of the African loxondron are very large, and they can be up and down to a meter long. The body length is meters, the tail length is meters, the shoulder height is -4 meters, and the weight ranges from 2 tons to tons: Asian elephants are small in size, have small ears, and are grayish-brown throughout.

3. Different habitats: African elephants mainly live in forests, open grasslands, grasslands, thorn bushes and semi-arid jungles. Asian elephants inhabit tropical rainforests, monsoon forests, valleys, hillsides, savannas, bamboo forests and wide areas in southern Asia.

The differences between Asian elephant and African elephant are:

1. Different body types: the weight of African elephants is 5 tons more than that of Asian elephants, which is equivalent to the weight of 4 cars, the average body length of Asian elephants is in meters, the body is as high as meters, and the weight is 5 tons, while the body length of African elephants is generally above meters, and the height can reach meters, which is enough to be more than the height of a child than Asian elephants.

2. Different ears: According to the body proportions, the ears of African elephants are larger than those of Asian elephants, up to meters, because the African climate is hotter, and larger ears have better heat dissipation efficiency.

3. The forehead is different: The Asian elephant has two distinct protrusions on the forehead, just like the Shouxian Guan, while the African elephant has a flat forehead.

4. The ivory is different: most of the males have tusks, the tusks of Asian elephants are yellowish, while the teeth of African elephants are more milky white, and thicker than Asian elephants, with better luster, and more exposed and harder.

5. Different toes: African savannah elephants have 4 front feet and 3 hind feet, while Asian elephants usually have 5 front feet and 4 hind feet, which is the same as African forest elephants.

6. Different backs: The back of the Asian elephant is raised, while the back of the African elephant is concave, similar to the shape of a saddle.