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Asian elephant

mammal
Also known as: Asiatic elephant, Elephas maximus

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  • Illustration comparing a mastodon, a woolly mammoth, and an elephant.
    In proboscidean

    Within the elephant family, Asian elephants (genus Elephas) and mammoths (genus Mammathus) are more closely related to one another than African elephants (genus Loxodonta) are to either. Molecular studies have corroborated the morphological studies that have long suggested this. A 2010 study using mitochondrial DNA suggests that African elephants…

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elephants

  • African savanna elephant
    In elephant

    The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) weighs about 5,500 kg and has a shoulder height of up to 3.5 metres. The Asian elephant includes three subspecies: the Indian, or mainland (E. maximus indicus), the Sumatran (E. maximus sumatranus), and the Sri Lankan (E. maximus maximus). African elephants…

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fauna of India

  • India
    In India: Mammals

    …of the submontane region include Indian elephants (Elephas maximus)—associated from time immemorial with mythology and the splendour of regal pageantry—the great one-horned Indian rhinoceroses, a wide variety of ruminants, and various primates. There are also numerous predators represented by various genera.

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gestation period

  • Diagram of a human uterus during the fourth month of pregnancy.
    In gestation

    …the longest that of the Indian elephant, about 22 months. In the course of evolution the duration of gestation has become adapted to the needs of the species. The degree of ultimate growth is a factor, smaller animals usually having shorter periods of gestation than larger ones. Exceptions are the…

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study by Sukumar

  • In Raman Sukumar

    …work on the behaviour of Asian elephants and how their presence has affected both human and natural environments.

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