what is the difference between african and indian elephant?
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Size of the Ears It is said that you can tell where an elephant comes from by looking at the size of his ears. African ears are like a map of Africa and Asian ears smaller like the shape of India. African ears are much bigger and reach up and over the neck, which does not occur in Asian elephants.
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The larger surface area of their ears helps to keep African elephants cool in the blazing African sun. Asian elephants have less to worry about heat-wise, as they tend to live in cool jungle areas, so their ears are smaller.
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Whereas rhino horns are made of keratin, elephants tusks are composed of ivory which is not dissimilar from human teeth. Elephants tusks are actually a part of an elephant's dental structure - its incisors, to be exact. The tusk is primarily comprised of dentin and wrapped in enamel to protect it against wear and tear.
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Main difference being that mostly male deer have antlers which they grow and shed every year, while antelopes have permanent horns. Antelopes belong to the family – Bovidae which is al.
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Morphological differences: Forest elephants are smaller (male shoulder height is 2.4-3.0m compared to 3.2-4.0 m in bush elephants; weight is 2,000-4,000 kg cf 4,000-7,000 kg), they have more oval-shaped ears and their tusks are straighter and downward pointing (the tusks of bush elephants curve outwards).
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Asian elephants are found in isolated pockets of India and Southeast Asia, including Sumatra and Borneo. They were formerly widely distributed south of the Himalayas, throughout Southeast Asia and in China as far north as the Yangtze River. Asian elephants are considered forest animals.
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African elephants have much larger ears that look sort of like the continent of Africa, while Asian elephants have smaller, round ears.
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As nouns the difference between elephant and crocodile is that elephant is a mammal of the order proboscidea , having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw while crocodile is any of a variety of related predatory amphibious reptiles, related to the alligator.
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Both male and female African elephants have tusks, while only male Asian elephants, and only a certain percentage of males today, have tusks.
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Compared to the male African lion's magnificent mane, his Asiatic counterpart sports barely a ruff. Other visible differences include size -- Asiatic lions tend to be slightly smaller than their African cousins -- and have a thicker coat, a longer tail tassel and an abdominal skin fold absent in African lions.
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They are smaller than African elephants and have proportionally smaller ears, which they keep in constant motion in order to cool themselves. They also have a single 'finger' on the upper lip of their trunks as opposed to African elephants, which have a second one on the lower tip.
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They also have a single 'finger' on the upper lip of their trunks as opposed to African elephants, which have a second one on the lower tip. Their skin ranges from dark grey to brown, with patches of pink on the forehead, the ears, the base of the trunk and the chest.
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Despite it's rough and dry appearance, the skin is delicate and may be soft to the touch. The natural color is grayish black, but an elephant usually appears to be the same color as the soil where the elephant lives.
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Unlike most of animals, elephant uses its trunks to drink water. Elephant sucks it up into its trunk and squirt it into its mouth.
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Females typically weigh the same as their Asiatic cousins. The longest African lion measured almost 11 feet from nose to tail tip. Compared to the African lion, the male Asiatic lion has a relatively short, sparse mane. As a result, the male Asiatic lion's ears tend to remain visible at all times.
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Using survival analysis, the life expectancy of the average Asian elephant is 47.6 years in Europe and 44.8 years in North America. African elephants in North America currently have a life expectancy of 33.0 years, but this age is likely to increase as more data are added for the older age classes.
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Was a Mammoth just a big hairy elephant? ... Woolly mammoths had several other cold weather adaptations besides just the hairy, but in general yes. Asian elephants are more closely related to mammoths than they are to African elephants, which definitely puts them directly into the elephant clade.