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Modern elephants fall into two different genus, Loxodonta (African elephant) and Alphas (Asian elephants, including the following species and subspecies:

* African elephant (Loxodonta). There are two different species:

Elephant African savannah or bush (Loxodonta Africans).
African forest elephant (Loxodonta cycloid).

* Asian elephants (Alphas maximums). A single species with three or four subspecies:

Sri Lankan elephant (Alphas maximums).
Indian elephant (Alphas maximums indies).
Sumatran elephant (Alphas maximums Sumatrans).

The Borneo elephant (Alphas maximums borneensis) and

Malaysian elephant (Alphas maximums hirsute) are currently classified as Alphas maximums indies.

have a highly developed nasal extension, called a proboscis (commonly known as a horn), thanks to its developed muscles allow them to use as a hand to grasp objects and food. Elephants also have tusks, large teeth coming out of his upper jaw. The elephant tusks are a great source of ivory, but due to the increasing rarity of elephants, most of the hunting and trade are now illegal. Elephant tusks can weigh up to 120 kg and have up to 3 m in length, but usually they are less than 1 meter. These tusks are canine teeth, but extremely long incisors and ivory is the dentin that way.

Another major feature of the elephants is that they have a large pine (higher in the African elephant in Asia). The main function of these ears is the thermostatically of the animal. Being highly vascular allow proper cooling of the blood in animals of this size would be difficult to achieve by other means.
Vista comparison with the human (1860)

they feed almost exclusively of herbs, barks of trees and some shrubs, which can reach 200 kilograms eat in a day. They are the largest terrestrial mammals today, in order of size and weight. African adult male can weigh 7,500 kg, though the known record is more than 12,000 kg. Usually live up to 60-70 years approximation. elephant population has tripled in the last six years

the elephant produces a wide range of sounds, which express different emotions. The best known of these sounds is the pimple, it does when frightened. It also uses infrasound, which allows you to communicate with individuals located several miles away. These sounds, frequencies up to only five hertz, are transmitted, in addition to the air through the ground and can be detected by their feet before reaching the ear of the animal, as the sound propagation speed higher soil than in air. This lag in receiving the elephant sound could serve to estimate the distance to that found its congener.

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