Minggu, 30 Januari 2011

Elephant


Elephant



Family Elephantidae (Elephant) is the largest land mammals that are still alive, and the family of the order Pachyderm, and the only remaining family of the order Proboscidea.

Elephants are one animal that is in Indonesia.Gajah is a mammal and is the largest land animals in dunia.Terdapat two species of elephants in the world, namely:


  1. Asian or Indian Elephant Elephant (Elephas maximus).
  2. African elephant (Loxodonta aricana).
     
Elephant gestation period is 22 months, the longest gestation period compared to other terrestrial animals. [citation needed] The weight of children in general 120 kg elephant and an elephant can live for approximately 70 years.

Elephants have also been used in war as war elephants, which used to attack musuh.Gajah is the only mammal in the world that can not jump.


Elephant Species

African elephants are the largest land animals in dunia.Sepanjang 55 million there are 500 species of elephants are known and only two extant species of Asian Elephants Elephas Maximus and African Elephants Loxodonta Africana Elephant Species Elephant Asia and Africa began to break up about two million years dahulu.Gajah asia asia afrika.Gajah different than elephant ears a little smaller than the African elephant, has a flat forehead, and two tubers at the elephant head is the highest peak, compared with African elephant who has only one hump on its head. In addition, the tip of the Asian elephant's trunk has only one lip, while the African elephant has two lips at the end of the sexes belalai.Two African Elephants have tusks while only male Asian elephants have tusks are clearly visible.

There is also a dwarf elephant species, or Pygmy Elephants by Latin name Elephas maximus borneensis is the smallest species of elephant, even smaller than the Sumatran Elephant. His size is only about 2.5 meters, such as the size of baby elephants other. Data show that the DNA on pygmy elephants are completely different from the Asian elephant and African elephant, this means that the pygmy elephant is a new subspecies of gajah.Habitat place their lives in the depths of Borneo's forests, the border between East Kalimantan - Indonesia and Malaysia.


Characteristic

Spread of elephants in Asia includes India, Southeast Asia, including western Indonesia and Sabah (East Malaysia). The elephant in Africa spreading covers most of mainland Africa in the form of pasture. In Indonesia, there are elephants in Sumatra (Sumatran Elephant) and in Nunukan district, East Kalimantan (Borneo Elephant)


Uniquely Elephant

 Although big, elephants are animals powerful swimmer. They can swim for 6 hours and a distance of up to 50 km.
Large elephant ivory is a pair of incisors in the front of the upper jaw, which continued to grow during the elephant alive although not grow too long.

Elephant skull is big and strong, contains a very smart brain. Therefore, the elephant has a very good memory and rarely forgot orders - orders that have been diajarkan.Seekor elephants can remember the 25 commandments or aba - aba and able to make tools for his own use, for example, the elephant will break the milestone of wood to scratch his back. About an author who writes Oliver Adriadne real story about the demolition of suicides of two of his friends 12 years ago, aided by Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.



Funny Elephant  








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