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Elephants are mammals, large wild exist in two races Elephantidae family: Elephant and Loxodonta, with Mammuthus genus third extinct is generally recognized three types of the elephant today: the bush African elephant, elephant forests of the African and Asian elephant (also known as Indian elephant). However, some researchers assume the existence of the fourth species of elephants in West Africa. all other species and genera Elephantidae extinct. Most have become extinct since the last ice age, although the forms of the dwarf mammoths survived in the late 2000 BC. Elephants , and others were classified Elephantidae once with a thick skin of other animals in the order is not valid now, Pachydermata.

Elephants are the largest living land animal on earth today. elephant pregnancy period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. and at birth, an elephant calf usually weighs 105 kg (230 lb) . Usually live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years. and killed the elephant is larger than any ever recorded in Angola in 1956. The weight of this man of about 24000 £ (11000 kg), with a high shoulder of 3.96 meters (13.0 feet), a meter (yard) taller than the average African elephant male. The smallest elephants, about the size of a pig or calf has a large, somewhat before the date that lived on the island of Crete during the Pleistocene era.

Elephants are the symbol of wisdom in Asian cultures, and we are famous for memory and intelligence, where the level of intelligence is believed to be equal to that of dolphins , and primates. Aristotle once said the elephant was "the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind" the word "elephant" ἐλέφας its roots in the Greek, meaning "ivory" or "elephant

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