elephants

Elephants, a family of Elephantidae have 3 living species on Earth now. They are the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant(formally known as Indian elephants).

Interesting to note is that the African Bush elephants and African Forest elephant are two different elephants. African Bush elephants has bigger ears and tusks. They are bigger in sizes too.

At first I didn’t know that actually, both females and males have tusks. Thought only the males have. Haha…

Sad to say, there are only around 600000 of African elephant on Earth.

African Elephants
The difference of Asian elephants and African elephants are that the Asian elephants are smaller in size. Only the males have tusks as well. Asian elephants also have darker pigmentation than the African elephants. It has a population of only 40000 on Earth. That’s sad.

Asian Elephants
Isn’t it amazing? They are both elephants but are different in so many ways. Other than differentiated by species, they are further broken down into subspecies. This is crazy!

Why are there only humans around while other animals have so many other species??

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