Elephant Anatomy

Home about elephants links page books multimedia news. They are very large animals with an anatomy that is developed so that they have a very good chance of survival in their natural habitat.

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Elephant anatomy. Elephant anatomy physical characteristics elephants are the largest land mammal still extant and the largest of them african bull elephants stand about 13ft tall and weigh something in the region of 15000 lbs. The average skull of an adult elephant weighs around 115 pounds. The larger image will open in a new window use the close button when finished.

Click on the image for a larger look at it. On the left is an anatomy diagram of the internal organs of a female elephant. All of us are familiar with the trunk of an elephant.

Below you can see some distinct differences between the african elephant and the asian elephants body structures. Asian elephants are smaller with cows generally averaging 7 9 ft in height and 6600 lbs in weight. Anatomy of the elephants how is a skeleton built up.

The african is larger with much larger ears and larger all round in height and length. A detailed resource for learning about a part of the elephant. An elephant usually grows six sets of these molars in a life time the final set grows when it is about 40 years of age.

Since the different elephant species have different numbers of thoracic lumbar sacral and caudal vertebrae an elephants skeleton consists of 326 to 351 bones. Dont be shy click on harry the elephant and explore. Like bird bones the elephants skull has lots of tiny air pockets to keep it light relatively.

Elephants have a unique body design that makes it hard to confuse them with any other animal in the world. When the last set decays around 70 years the elephant finds it hard to eat and subsequently a great many are likely to die of starvation. Below you can see some distinct differences between the african elephant and the asian elephants body structures.

Home information elephant anatomy. The elephant is a non ruminant mega herbivore and its digestive system is compared to that of a horse or a zebra. Elephants while grazing pull out grass from the ground remove the dust and mud by beating on the forelimb and then eat the dressed food.

As for all mammals the elephants skeleton is made up of skull spinal column extremities ribs and breastbone.

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