There are three kinds of elephants: African elephants, African forest elephants and Asian elephants. African elephants both have ivory, which is relatively large, while Asian elephants only have ivory, which is relatively small. African elephants weigh about 3-8 tons, African forest elephants weigh about 3 tons, and Asian elephants weigh about 5-7 tons.
Morphological characteristics of elephants
1. The most important characteristics of an elephant are its soft and muscular nose, fan-sized ears, huge body and a pair of very scary ivory.
2. The length of the trunk is almost equal to the length of the elephant, which is cylindrical, flexible and flexible. The trunk is almost entirely composed of muscles, with nostril openings at the end and finger-like protrusions at the tip of the nose. It can pick up objects weighing 1 ton, and it can also pick up small objects.
Elephant's ears are thin and covered with blood vessels. When blood flows through here, heat can be quickly dissipated, especially when elephants beat their ears, the temperature of blood in their ears drops rapidly.