Asian Elephants

Common Name: Asian elephant

Scientific Name: Elephas maximus

Location: Asia

Weight: 11,000 pounds (5,000kg)

Height: 3, 5 m (11 feet)

Asiatic elephants have accommodated to their surroundings as it changed over vast periods of time. Today they still interact with and form their surroundings. Their foraging natural actions assist to maintain the areas in which they live. by pulling down trees to eat leaves , branches, and roots they make clearings in which new immature trees and other flora grow to provide future nourishment for elephants and other organisms. Elephant tracks through the brush are routes that other creatures can use. White ants eat elephant fecal matters and often start out structure of termite heaps under piles of fecal matters! .

The Asian elephants' forest habitations are being devastated today because of commercial demand for forest educed productions such as coffee , tea, rubber , and hardwoods. Crop cultivation, excavation for iron ore, and flooding by hydroelectric undertakings have as well acted to diminish the large pieces of land of land commanded by elephants for adequate food provisions. Only about 35,000-40 ,000 Asian elephants make it today throughout a discontinuous range in southeast Asia.

The elephant's ivory tusks are incisors used for excavation, rooting out trees and displaying. The dominant elephant in the herd is a female , the matriarch. She is frequently the oldest, largest or most experienced elephant in the herd of related females and their young . Elephants can utilize low frequency sound waves for communication between fellow members of the herd and individuals outside the herd. These sounds may transport for distances of up to 10 miles.

Asian elephants are one of the largest herbivores (plant eaters) preferring grasses, leaves, trees, and even shrubs. Their diet varies from acacia trees to wild mangos.

Sometimes called the Indian elephant, this beast is likewise found in the dense forests and grassy plains of Sri Lanka, Burma , Thailand , Malaya, and Sumatra.

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