Asian elephant and African elephant, what do you think is the difference between these two elephants

Updated on science 2024-08-02
8 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-15

    1.Body size: Asian elephants are relatively smaller than African elephants, generally speaking, Asian elephants are about 6 meters long, generally about meters tall at the shoulders, and weigh 2000 6000 kilograms.

    The African elephant is about 7 meters long, generally about 3 meters tall at the shoulder, and weighs 2,700-6,000 kilograms.

    2.Snout: African elephants have 2 finger-like protrusions at the end of their proboscis and only one in Asian elephants.

    3.Ivory: African elephants have exposed tusks for both males and females, with longer tusks for males and shorter tusks for females. Whereas, Asian elephants have only male tusks exposed, and female tusks are very short and not exposed.

    4.Ears: Asian elephant ears are comparatively smaller and farther away, while African elephant ears are much larger.

    5.Toes: Asian elephant with 5 fingers on the forelimbs and 4 toes on the hind limbs, African elephant with 4 toes on the forelimbs and 3 toes on the hind limbs.

    6.Skin color: Asian elephant** light gray, African elephant** gray-brown.

    7.The living area is different, and the food is also somewhat different due to regional factors. Moreover, African elephants are more intelligent and rarely used for human servitude like Asian elephants.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-14

    I feel that the biggest difference between Asian elephants and African elephants is that African elephants are darker, and Asian elephants are not as black as African elephants, but they are all the same.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    I feel that the African elephant is bigger, because of the high temperature in Africa, the ears are bigger to dissipate heat, but other than that, I don't see any difference.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    The easiest way to distinguish between Asian and African elephants is to look at the brain, which is the forehead. Asian elephants have two bulges on their foreheads, which make their heads look rounder and more pretty.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    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 smaller in size with smaller ears and grayish-brown in color.

    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.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    1.Different body sizes: African elephants weigh 5 tons more than Asian elephants, equivalent to the weight of 4 cars, Asian elephants have an average body length of meters, a body height of 5 tons, and a weight of 5 tons, while African elephants are generally more than meters in length and can reach meters in height, which is enough to be the height of a child more than Asian elephants.

    2.Different ears: African elephants have proportionally larger ears than Asian elephants, up to a metre long, because African climates are hotter and larger ears are more effective at dissipating heat.

    3.Different foreheads: Asian elephants have two distinct protrusions on their foreheads, just like Shouxian Guan, while African elephants have flat foreheads.

    4.Ivory is different: most males have tusks, Asian elephants have yellowish tusks, while African elephants have whiter teeth, thicker and more lustrous than Asian elephants, and are more exposed and harder.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    There is a difference, and the same species in different environments will differ in appearance.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    The nose is different. The snout of the Asian elephant is the longest of the living animals, and is actually an extension of the snout and upper lip, with a smooth surface that droops all the way to the ground. It is composed of more than 40,000 muscle fibers, which are rich in neural connections, and are not only sensitive to smell, but also feeding.

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