Saturday, April 5, 2008

The ELEPHANT

The family Elephantidae (the Elephant) was the family from the Pachyderm order, and the only family that remained from the Proboscidea order. The elephant was one of the available animals in Indonesia. The elephant was mammalia and was the biggest land animal in the world. Gotten 2 species of the elephant in the world that is:
1. The Asian elephant (previously was known by the name of the Indian Elephant)
2. The Afrika elephant
The period of elephant pregnancy was 22 months, oldest was compared by the other land animal. Seriously the elephant calf generally 120 kilogram. An elephant could live for 70 years. The African elephant was the biggest land animal in the world. As long as 55 million years were received 500 species of the elephant that was known and only two species that still were that is the Asian Elephant and the African Elephant. The species of the Asian Elephant and the African Elephant the beginning broke into pieces approximately two million years beforehand. The Asian elephant was different than the African Elephant. The Asian elephant had ears was somewhat smaller than the African Elephant, had the level forehead, and two bonggol in his head was the highest peak of the elephant, compared with the African Elephant that had just one bonggol on the head. Moreover, the tip belalai the Asian Elephant only had 1 lip, now the African Elephant had 2 lips on the end belalai. The two African Elephant genders had temporary tusks of only Asian elephants male that had clear tusks appeared.

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