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Monday, August 6, 2012

Elephants

            Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas (asian elephant) and Loxodonta (african elephant).Three living species of elephant are recognized: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Indian or Asian elephant. 
            Elephants are the largest living land animals on Earth today.The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal.At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 105 kilograms (230 lb).They typically live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1974. This male weighed about 10,900 kg (24,000 lb) with a shoulder height of 3.96 metres (13.0 ft).

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