asian elephant (elephas maximus)
The Asian Elephant can urinate up to 14 litres of urine in just one go. What a relief! Elephants can almost make low pitched sounds to curate with other Elephants. So low that humans can't hear it!
DESCRIPTION ,body parts, adaptations & behariours
Males can males can weigh up to 5,000kg and can reach over three metres at the shoulder! But females can reach weights up to 4000kg and nearly three metres in height at the shoulder.
Male Asian Elephants have tusks. Tusks are bigger insider teeth. The longest recorded tusk of an Asian Elephant bull was 302cm long and weighed 39kg!
Asian Elephants have five nails on each front foot and four nails on each back foot.
The trunk of an Asian Elephant only has one finger-like tip.
Male Asian Elephants have tusks. Tusks are bigger insider teeth. The longest recorded tusk of an Asian Elephant bull was 302cm long and weighed 39kg!
Asian Elephants have five nails on each front foot and four nails on each back foot.
The trunk of an Asian Elephant only has one finger-like tip.
habitat
Asian Elephants are found in rainforests and grasslands in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Indonesia, Bhutan, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Bangladesh and Southern China.
life span
The oldest Asian elephant recorded in Australia died when she was 69 years old.
threats
Asian Elephants are endangered and their numbers continue to decrease! Their threats include habitat description for farms, cities, roads, this makes lots of contact with elephants and people and because of this many elephants have been killed. Palm Oil plantations are a problems as is elephant herpes virus that kills Elephants in the wild and in captivity. There are are only 34,000 left in the wild!
Asian ELEPHANTs in capivity
Just like Orcas at Sea World, Elephants shouldn't be in captivity because they are too large, the enclosures are nothing like their natural habitat and they barely reproduce because there isn't enough space!
how you can help
- Send letters to the government about protecting their habitat and making Palm Oil illegal.
- Have a Palm Oil free diet.
- Spread the message.
- Don't go to places that have captive Elephants.
- Support & raise money for Asian Elephant conservation.
- Don't buy Elephant products or any wildlife products.
image credits
www.elephantparade.com/about/in-aid-of-elephant-conservation/
