Asian elephant: Difference between revisions

All the elephants have thick and dry skins. Asian elephants have small ears compared to African elephants. [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Elephas_maximus.html] Asian elephant's mass is about 3000 to 5000kg and their length is almost same as the two beds. As people know, elephants have long noses, we call that nose a '''trunk'''. The trunk is used in many ways like they can lift up 600 Kg things with their trunks, elephants use their trunk for the bringing water and food. So that, food and water can be passed to the mouth by trunk. Also, elephants use it for fighting, breathing and protecting their babies. Usual trunks are 2 meter long, weight is around 100kg- 150kg. [http://www.thaifocus.com/elephant/anatomy.htm]  

<br /><br />'''Senses'''<br />  

Elephants have 5 senses like human hearing, smell, touch, sight, and taste. Elephants have really poor sight, approximately they only can see the things up to 0.2km. [http://www.thaifocus.com/elephant/sight.htm] Usually, they shake their head side to side to see the things perfectly. They have really good sense of smelling. They can smell the water, even though the water is far away from where they are. Their nostrils are at the tip of the trunks. They also use smell to distinguish the other elephants from their herd members. Elephants have really good hearing ability. Mostly, their communication is really low range and they can hear the sound of their relatives in several kilometers. As I said, Asian elephant's ears are smaller than the African relatives. Asian elephant's ears are like triangle. Touching is important sense for the elephant. Trunks are really sensitive to touch other thing, because usually elephants touch the other things using the trunks. If you see the elephants, they really like to touch each other. Lastly, their taste sense is also important, because they like to eat. They eat all the time, they eat so much food and drink lots of water everyday. They bring the food or water by the trunks. [http://www.thaifocus.com/elephant/taste.htm]

Elephants live as a group. People call that a 'herd.'. Usually, 15 to 20 elephants are in one herd. They are all relatives like uncles, aunts, mothers and daughters. The oldest female elephant leads the all members in herd. She leads them to find the food , find the place to rest, and water [http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=63]  and '''Herd''' is only the group of babies and female elephants.