Complete Biography about Asian Elephant (Indian Elephant)

Asian Elephant (Indian Elephant)

The Asian Elephant is a massive land animal that lives in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Sumatra, and Asian Elephant is famous with another name that’s Indian Elephant . Asian Elephant is used broadly for labor; only some are missing in the wild. Asian Elephant has a life duration is up to 70 years.

Asian Elephant has very strong societal bonds and lives in family units that family unit is headed by a female that is called a cow. Males of this group are famous with the name of bulls and they sporadically link the group.

Asian Elephant live in Family Groups

Asian Elephant is brilliant swimmers. Asian Elephants have the minority natural enemies except man, and they are in tremendous threat of destruction due to the thrashing of habitat and poaching (Asian Elephants are slaughtered for their ivory tusks).

Anatomy:

Asian Elephants typical concerning 8 feet (2.5 m) high at the shoulder and they are smaller in size than AfricanElephants. Males of Asian Elephant have weighed up to 5,400 kg and females of Asian Elephant have average weigh up to 3,600 kg.

Only males of this group have tusks (large, sharp ivory teeth). Asian Elephants have wrinkled, gray-brown skin that is approximately hairless. Asian Elephant’s ears not only hear well, but also help the elephant lose over load heat, as warm blood flows near the exterior.

Trunk:

Asian Elephants breathe through 2 nostrils at the last part of their trunk, which is a conservatory of the nose. The trunk is also used to acquire food and water. To acquire water, the elephant sucks water into its trunk, then curls the trunk towards the jaws and squeeze the water into it. The trunk has a prehensile (avaricious) conservatory at the tip, which it uses similar to a finger or scoop.

Diet:

Asian Elephant is plant-eater

Asian Elephant eats sugar cane, bananas, roots, grasses, leaves, and bark. Working bulls can consume 130-260 kg of food daily.

Classification:

Family Elephantidae plus Phylum Chordata plus Species E. maximus plus Kingdom Animalia (animals) plus  Order Proboscidea plus Class Mammallia (mammals), and Genus Elephas.