Asian elephant: Difference between revisions

'''Uusally''', Female asian elephants get sexual maturity when they are 8 to 12 and male asian elephants get sexual maturity when they are 10 to 17. But somehow, they might delayed to make babies in several years. Their gestation time is about 18 to 20 months which is 2 years and they can only get one calf per on pregnent. A female elephant can bear baby in every 3 to 4 years, this gestation period is different depend on the condion of the female elephant. [http://www.animalinfo.org/species/elepmaxi.htm] When, newborn elephant came out from the mother's womb, the infant is cared by mother and other female elephants in the same herd. Usually, the baby elephant's weight is about 100 Kg or above. They can walk soon and try to follow their mother. Also elephants are mammals like humans. The mother elephants produce the milk for the infant elephant and infant suckles until they are 3 years old. [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Elephas_maximus.html]