Both Asian and African elephants are large herbivores with similar social structures, long gestation periods, and high levels of intelligence. They are both endangered due to habitat loss and poaching. However, Asian elephants are smaller with smaller ears, and they have a smoother trunk with one finger-like projection at the end, while African elephants have two.
The binomial nomenclature for an elephant is Elephas maximus for the Asian elephant and Loxodonta africana for the African elephant.
Asian elephants are smaller in size compared to African elephants. Asian elephants have smaller ears and only males have tusks, while both male and female African elephants have tusks. Additionally, Asian elephants have one "finger" at the tip of their trunk, while African elephants have two.
The African elephant has the biggest ears!The type of elephant with the biggest name has the biggest ears, the African elephant (not the Asian elephant). That's how I remember.
There are two major species which are the African elephant and the Asian elephant.There are also Sri Lankan, Indian, Borneo pygmy, Forest, African savanna, and Sumatran elephants.
The Asian Elephant has the smallest ears, of the current existing species (African Bush Elephant, African Forest Elephant, and Asian Elephant or Indian Elephant). However, when alive, the Mammoths had the smallest ears.
The African bush elephant is noticeably taller than an Asian elephant.
An Asian elephant has noticeably smaller ears than an African elephant. Also, African elephants are usually bigger than Asian elephants.
No. The ears of an African elephant are larger than that of the Asian elephants.
there are 3,African elephant, Asian elephant,and African forest.
There are two primary types of elephants. The African Elephant and the Asian Elephant. Sadly, there are none in Europe or the Americas...The Sir Lank elephant is definitely an Asian Elephant. It has smaller ears compared the African Elephants.One distinguishing way to tell them apart is that he African Elephant's ears are shaped like the African Continent and the Asian Elephant's eras are shaped like the Indian Sub continent (India)...
There are two primary types of elephants. The African Elephant and the Asian Elephant. Sadly, there are none in Europe or the Americas...The Sri Lanka elephant is definitely an Asian Elephant. It has smaller ears comparedto the African Elephants.One distinguishing way to tell thhem apart is that he African Elephant's ears are shaped like the African Continent and the Asian Elephant's eras are shaped like the Indian Sub continent (India)...more info on elephants on : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_ElephantHappy DiscoveringJeff
It is an African elephant or an Asian elephant?
The binomial nomenclature for an elephant is Elephas maximus for the Asian elephant and Loxodonta africana for the African elephant.
the African elephant has has 2 "fingers" but an Asian has one.
The African bush elephant is the largest of all the elephants.
The Asian and African elephant is not extinct but the mammoth is.
There are three species of elephant, the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant . The biggest noticeable difference is that African elephants have much bigger ears than there Indian counterparts.