The Asian and African elephant

The African elephants and the Asian elephants are the largest land animals in the world. They are r eally enormous animals. The African and the Asian elephants are alike, or similar, in many ways, b ut there are differences between the two types of elephants, too.

What are some of the similarities between the African and the Asian elephant? Well, for one thing, both animals have long noses, called trunks. An elephant sometimes uses its trunk like a third han d. Both kinds of elephants use their trunks to pick up very small objects and very large, heavy obje cts. They can even pick up trees with their trunks. For another thing, both the African and Asian el ephants have very large ears, although the African elephant’s ears are considerably larger.

In addition, both animals are intelligent. They can be trained to do heavy work. They can also be tr ained to do tricks to entertain people. In other words, they both work for people, and they entertain people also.

As I said before, the African and Asian elephants are alike in many ways, but they are also quite di fferent, too. Let me explain what I mean. The African elephant is larger and heavier than the Asian elephant. The African male elephant weighs between 12,000 and 14,000 pounds. In contrast, the a verage Asian male elephant weighs between 7,000 and 12,000 pounds.

Another major difference between the two kinds of elephants is the size of the ears. Asian elephant s have smaller ears than the African elephants do. The teeth are different, too. The African elephan t has two very large teeth. These teeth are called tusks. The Asian elephant sometimes does not ha ve any tusks at all. The elephant differ in color, too. The African elephant is like dark gray in color while the Asian elephant is light gray. Occasionally an Asian elephant is even white in color!

The last big difference between the two elephants is their temperament. The Asian elephant is tamer than the African elephant. Another words, the African elephant is much wilder than the Asian elephant. As a result, it’s more difficult to train the African elephant to perform tricks to entertain people. That’s why the elephants you see in the circus are probably Asian elephant… not African elephants. Yes, these certainly are differences between the African and the Asian elephants, but there is one b ig similarity between the two animals: they are both fascinating and enormous animals.