does elephant has a fifth leg?
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Yes..as weird it may sound. Their trunk acts like a 5th leg.\n \nJust like a spider monkey, where the tail acts as fifth arm.
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The Indian and African elephants are different by a indian elephant has a twin domed forehead,large pinna arched back,5 toenails,in front 4 in back, the african elephant has 4 toenails in front,3 in back,flat forehead,concave back,and very large ears or pinna also shaped like africa,Hope that helps please choose me as best answer.
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Assuming you mean - in general why do elephants testis etc. not hang away from their body.\n\nThe answer is basically because it prevents them from being damaged while walking (being dragged), or from predators leaping up towards the animal.\n\nBecause we stand on two legs we're more readily prepared to fight whatever comes at us from the front.\n\nOther animals on fours have no underbelly protection so they pull in the testis in an adaptive way which basically protects their species ability to reproduce.\n\n\n----\nHope this helps you.\nEnjoy zoology, I hear it's terribly hard.
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The elephants’ ancestors looked more like pigs than elephants, and were about that size.  As elephants’ ancestors evolved they gradually be came larger, with larger heads of course.  The neck of an elephant is very short.  A long neck would not be able hold such a heavy head.  With a short neck an elephant cannot graze like a horse.  As the elephant evolved the upper lip of the elephant became the trunk we see today.
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actually, insects have 6 legs, arachnids (spiders) have 8.\n\n6 legs is actually a very efficient and simple mode of moving.  When an insect walks the front and rear legs on one side along with the middle leg on the other move in lock step while the other 3 form a stable platform for the insect.
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I have a mini cooper and I once wore mini skirts.  \nI can fit about 12 elephants in my car but.....\nunder my skirt?  only one male elephant at a time, sir!
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Grey Elephant from Denmark.
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I am willing to bet that you are looking for the Elephant.  There are many sites on the web which have stated that the elephant is the only mammal which can not jump.  This is NOT the truth.\nJust on the Web alone there are several others listed including the okapi, guinea pig and raccoon who are also reported as not being able to jump.  (see references).\nIn the same class as the elephant, both Hippopotamus and Rhinoceroses come closer to skipping than jumping.  Like the elephant, their body mass is too great in relation to their mass.\nIn addition, all bats have weak legs and usually have trouble walking, let alone jumping.\nIt has been recorded that sloths move too slow to jump.  Plus they seldom climb down out of their trees.\nGiraffes are known to run, but apparently always have one “foot on the ground.”  Due to their neck structure, it may not be possible for them to jump in the usual meaning of the word.\nDue to their odd physical shapes and relatively slow speeds, echidna (spiny anteater), \nduck-billed platypus and koala might also be listed among the non-jumpers.\nFinally, there are the non-land mammals most of which can come at least part way out of the water, but none have legs and by definition, can not jump.  These would include whales, porpoises, dolphins, manatees and maybe even sea lions.
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An elephant has the longest nose in the world.  \nA small elephant has the 2nd longest nose in the world.
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Ask your teacher to help you do the research that can verify what she meant by her answer, and perhaps together you can find out if there any truth to the other person's answer as well.\n\nSometimes two or more people can be correct when they are both giving different answers to the same question.\n\nWell, blind man, have you seen the elephant? Tell me, what sort of thing is an elephant?'"Thereupon the men who were presented with the head answered, 'Sire, an elephant is like a pot.' And the men who had observed the ear replied, 'An elephant is like a winnowing basket.' Those who had been presented with a tusk said it was a ploughshare. Those who knew only the trunk said it was a plough; others said the body was a grainery; the foot, a pillar; the back, a mortar; the tail, a pestle, the tuft of the tail, a brush.\n\n"Then they began to quarrel, shouting, 'Yes it is!' 'No, it is not!' 'An elephant is not that!' 'Yes, it's like that!' and so on."  This is the parable of the blind men and the elephant.
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(m)\n\nUnlike Asian elephants, in which only males have tusks, both male and female African elephants are tusked. However, due to the hunting pressure on tusked animals brought about by poaching for ivory, tusklessness is an increasingly common condition in African elephants. \n\nElephants use their tusks to pry bark off trees or dig for roots, and in social encounters as an instrument of display or as a weapon\n\nHumans grow two sets of teeth in their lifetimes - the rootless "milk teeth" of childhood and the second, rooted set of teeth which are supposed to last into old age. With the amount of food elephants eat every day, their teeth wear down at alarming rates, and that's why they grow not two but six sets of chewing teeth (molars) in their lifetimes. Tusks do not wear out so fast, so an elephant does not grow more than one set in its life. In fact, tusks are rootless, just like human milk teeth. However, they do continue to grow in length throughout the lifetime of the elephant
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Simple answer - No.\n\n\nA more complex answer. Elephants get nervous when they come upon something unexpected. For example, a mouse or a rat popping out of a hole and running around it's legs, can make an elephant very nervous since it really cannot see the rat, but can hear it and smell it move. And when an elephant is very nervous, it does things which to us may look like it's very scared.\n\nElephants have very poor eye-sight, but very powerful sense of hearing and smell. So, it may not see that mouse, but it can feel it's presence and that's what makes it so nervous. \n\nSo, you see - elephants are not scared of mice, but scared of sudden changes which they cannot comprehend.
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Are you sure it's a pink elephant?\n\nHere's one (http://www.curiousmath.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11) that uses the same idea but the elephant's not pink.
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Humans don't have trunks.  Elephants do, though.
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." ~Abraham Lincoln\nnice question, i like it!
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What are you, an elephant?
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First of all, neither the Elephant nor the Lion lives in the jungle in Africa.  They prefer savannas, grassy plains, open woodlands and scrub country.  I'm not quite sure of the habitat of the Indian Elephant.  But here in Africa, where the two species live together, I think the Elephant is overshadowing the Lion.  Yes it is true that Lions can pray on the Elephant, but this usually only happens to the weak outsiders rejected by the herd.  A adult Elephant can fight off up to 7 lionesses-which clearly makes the elephant the winner..Furthermore, the lion is weak on its own, and doesn't install to much fear in the rest of the animal kingdom.  The Elephant is a truly majestic animal, and I believe, is the true king of the "jungle".