African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) - The African elephant is the largest land animal on the planet. They have a body size slightly larger than their Asian cousins ​​and can be identified by their larger ears with a posture that looks great as the African continent. (Asian elephants are smaller with rounded ears.)

African elephants are the species of mammals (mammals), the status of herbivores (plant eaters), the average life span in the wild and 70 years. Tall at the shoulder size, from 8.2 to 13 ft (2.5 to 4 m), weight 5,000 to £ 14,000 (2268-6350 kg) Living in a herd of elephants, their protection status is now threatened.

Elephant ears radiate heat to help keep these large animals head remains cool, because sometimes the heat is too high in Africa. Elephants love to play and happy to enjoy the bath water by sucking water into their trunks and spraying all over her own body. After that, they are also often to spray their skin with a protective coating of dust heat.

Elephant's trunk is actually a long nose used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also to achieve other things, especially food potential. Trunk alone has about 100,000 different muscles. African elephants have two fingerlike features on the end of their trunks which they can use to pick up small items. (Asian elephants have one.)

African elephant either male or female have tusks they use to menggais food, digging in the ground water and strip bark from trees. Male elephants use their tusks to battle one another between a bull elephant, ivory them hard is a dangerous weapon.

Because ivory is also very valuable for some people, then a lot of African elephants were killed for ivory to be sold. This trade is illegal today, but it has not completely activities that violate this can be stopped, and led to some African elephant populations continue to be threatened.

Elephants eat roots, grasses, fruit, and bark, and they also eat some other foods. An adult elephant can consume up to £ 300 (136 kilograms) of food in one day.

The animals are hungry is not a lot of sleep, they explore the vast distances while foraging for the large amount of food they need to maintain their huge bodies.

Female elephants live in family groups together with their children, but the male elephants tend to roam alone.

To have a baby elephant is a serious job for them. Elephants have a longer pregnancy than any other mammal, almost 22 months of pregnancy. Female elephants normally give birth to one calf every two to four years. At birth, elephants already weigh about 200 pounds (91 kilograms) and a height of about 3 feet (1 meter).

African elephants do not like their relatives in Asia, they are not easy to be tamed. They are spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests in Central and West Africa. Northern elephant continent is found in the deserts of Mali Sahel. A small herd of elephants of Mali's nomadic and they migrate in a circular route across the vast African desert and heat to find water.