On the ecology and behaviour of the African elephant: the elephants of Lake Manyara PhD thesis | The African elephant is an endangered species |
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The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal | "Is the human brain unique? "Mega-gardeners of the forest - the role of elephants in seed dispersal" |
Physiology 17 2 : 47-50.
The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956 | "Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation" |
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"Mitochondrial cytochrome b of the Lyakhov mammoth Proboscidea, Mammalia : new data and phylogenetic analyses of Elephantidae" | The group is headed by the oldest female, and remains the leader of the group to become weak and unable to play this role, or die; and then the leadership is given to the next largest female |
Lifestyle of the African Elephant: elephants live together in families with one of the female elephants as the herd's leader.
23"Chromosome painting in the manatee supports Afrotheria and Paenungulata" | Elephant Living Place Elephants feed on the grass, so they live in environments where grasses are available, such as savannah |
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Their cousins, the Asian elephants, are smaller and live in Asia | Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin |
Elephant Research and Education Center, Department of Companion Animal and Wildlife Clinics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University.
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