Recently our country's Asian elephants are also frequently logged on the hot news, but also embarked on the world media hot information, let our country's elephants on fire, to be honest, I really hope that everyone cares about the elephants, this creature from our human beings in its benefits, can live until now is really very difficult, hunted hunters kill too much, some ivory products have become popular trading items, resulting in China's elephants now belong to the national level of protected animals, the country only more than 300 heads, no sale and no killing, Today we bring you five species of elephants.
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The Borneo pygmy elephant is one of the rare species of Borneo in the southeastern Malay Peninsula. According to official statistics, there are currently only about 1500 pygmy elephants in the world, and due to the scarcity of this animal, people know very little about them. In order to demystify the pygmy elephant, the local country introduced satellites to study it. Borneo elephants have long been thought to have been introduced by humans in modern times and are descendants of the Asian or African elephant genus, not the native native species of the region.
It was not until 2003, when scholars, mainly American Don Melnick, made a different opinion on the basis of DNA testing. There is a legend that the Bornean elephant population originated in the African Sultanate and was dedicated by the East India Company to the Sulu people, then rulers of part of the island of Borneo, around 1750. Belonging to the Asian elephant theory: no fossil elephants have been found on the island of Borneo, and the local indigenous indigenous language does not have the word elephant, which is believed to be borneo elephants brought into Borneo by humans from other parts of Asia in recent times.
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African elephants are the elephants we are most familiar with. Adult African males are taller than 3.5 meters and can reach a maximum height of 4.1 meters. Weighing about 2.7 to 6 tonnes, females were smaller than males, with the heaviest recorded being 13.5 tonnes. Their tusks were recorded at a maximum weight of 102.7 kg. African elephants are the largest mammals on land. Both species of elephants in this genus are native to Africa and can live in a variety of natural environments, from sea level to 5,000 meters above sea level, including forests, open grasslands, meadows, thorn bushes, and semi-arid jungles. Countless African elephants have been killed because of their tusks.
African elephants are listed as endangered by the U.S. Endangered Species Act and the IUCN, and are listed in Appendix I by cites of the Washington Convention, but in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia, African elephants are reclassified to CITES Appendix II. Among them, the African steppe elephant is the national animal of Côte d'Ivoire and Mozambique.
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This is the elephant that has recently become popular in Yunnan, the Asian elephant is the largest extant land animal in Asia, with tusks more than 1 meter long, which is the incisor teeth protruding from the protruding mouth of the male elephant's upper jaw, and it is also a powerful defensive weapon. The elephant's eyes are small and the ears are large, and the whole body is sparsely covered with short hairs. The top of the head is the highest point, the body length is 5 to 6 meters, the height is 2.1 to 3.6 meters, and the weight is 3 to 5 tons. Wild elephants are now few and far between, and many domesticated and wild elephants are domesticated in some southeast Asian countries.
Wild elephants in China are only found in the border areas adjacent to Myanmar and Laos in the southern part of Yunnan Province, and are very rare, repeatedly hunted and killed, and the damage is very serious. Asian elephants are protected animals at the national level in China.
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Although this elephant is extinct, it is also an elephant that we are more familiar with, which is described in some textbooks, and it is also introduced in some movies, the mammoth, also known as the mammoth, was once one of the largest elephants in the world, and perhaps the only long-haired elephant in the world, one of the largest mammals that have survived on land.
It is a behemoth of the Ice Age. During the cold Pleistocene (around 1.8 million BC to 10,000 BC), they lived extensively in northern Eurasia. About 10,000 years ago, mammoths became extinct, which is seen as a sign of the end of an ice age. And now scientists are working to revive this species.
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The saber-toothed elephant is extinct, living in Asia and Africa 12-1 million years ago, and from it it produced the now-extinct mammoth. The skulls of this type of elephant are slightly longer than the true image, the legs are longer, the upper jaws are both long and large, curved upwards; the lower jaw is short and has no tusks; the number of buccal tooth crowns is low, and the number of ridges of teeth with a roof ridge in the cross-section gradually increases; the number of riber-tooth ridges in the late progress of saber-toothed elephants has more than 10 ridges of the third molar teeth.
At present, the world's longest and most complete preserved saber-tooth elephant fossil In November 1973, on the Malian River in Banqiao Commune, Heshui County, Gansu Province, a saber-toothed elephant fossil was excavated, with a height of 4 meters, a length of 8 meters, and a length of 3.03 meters, which is the largest and most complete preserved saber-tooth elephant fossil in the world, named the Yellow River saber-tooth elephant referred to as "Yellow River Elephant".
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