Asian Elephant Facts Review

Asian elephants are much smaller than the African elephant to grow only a few feet tall. Asian elephants are found in the tropical jungle of India and China, and in most Southeast Asian countries.

Asian elephants have been domesticated for afforestation and often fight for hundreds of years. There are many places in Asia, where Asian elephants are kept to ride for tourists, and are often treated badly. Asian elephants are renowned for their immense power and kindness to people.

Today the Asian elephant as an endangered species and only 50,000 in nature is. This is due to habitat loss and illegal poaching of Asian elephant hunting in Asian elephants for their ivory and skins.

The Asian elephant smaller ears than the African elephant and the Asian elephant also has an African elephant that curved spine. Unlike African elephants, female Asian elephants tusks are very rare, and if the female Asian elephants have tusks, are barely visible and can only be seen when the female Asian elephant open your mouth.

The Asian elephant follows strict migratory routes, which are determined by the monsoon season. The oldest Asian elephant elephant herd is responsible for remembering the migration route of the herd of Asian elephants. This Asian elephant migration usually occurs between stations and wet and dry problems arose when companies, which built along the migratory routes of the herds of Asian elephants, Asian elephants caused as much destruction of farmland new creation.

Asian elephants are herbivores which means they only eat plants and plant parts to get all the nutrients they need to survive. Asian elephant eating a wide variety of vegetation, including grasses, leaves, buds, bark, fruits, nuts and seeds. Asian elephants often its long snout to help in collecting food.

Because of its size Asian elephants are very few predators in the wild. Apart from human hunters, they are the main predator tiger Asian elephant, although they tend to chase the calves of smaller Asian elephants instead of the much larger and stronger adults.

The female Asian elephants are usually able to reproduce until they are 10 years of age and the birth of a single Asian elephant breeding period after 22 months of gestation. If born Asian elephant breeding, weighing about 100 kg, and not only the mother of his \ 's later by other female Asian elephants in the herd (known as aunts) cared. The Asian elephant baby stays with his mother until about five years and gaining its independence, with males often leave the herd and calves remain.

Today the Asian elephant is considered to be an animal that, due to the fact that populations of Asian elephants were at a critical speed is in danger of extinction in immediate decay. Asian elephants are believed to suffer mainly due to habitat loss in the form of deforestation and hunting for their ivory tusks for human poachers.

Asian Elephant Facts

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Proboscidea

Family: Elephantidae

Genre: Elephas

Scientific name: Elephas maximus

Type: Mammal

Diet: Herbivore

Size (H): 2 m - 3 m (7 ft - 10 ft)

Weight: 3,000 kg - 5000 kg (€ 6,500 - £ 11,000)

Maximum speed: 43 kmh (27 mph)

Life: 55 - 70 years

Lifestyle: Stove

Conservation status: Vulnerable

Color: Grey, Brown, Black

Skin Type: Skin

Food: Grass

Habitat: forests and tropical forests

Average litter size: 1

Main prey: grass, fruits, roots

Predators: human, Tigre

Special Features: long trunk and big feet