Indian elephant
See also: Elephant (homonymy)
The Indian elephant or Elephas maximus is a Mammifère of the family of the Éléphantidé S.
Main features
It measures from 2 to 3,50 meters with the garrot, presents one prehensile finger at the end of the horn and has rather small ears. The cranium forms two prominent bumps and defenses are absent in the females and a certain number of males.It is smaller than his African cousin. Living in restricted herd carried out by a female, it spends its time surveying the forest in the search of sources of food to satisfy its mode Végétarien. Often domesticated, it is used as mounting or draft animal. Formerly present on the whole of the continent of Asia, it occupies today only one reduced territory. In a wild state, the species is in danger, even if the trade of the ivory is illegal. -->
Subspecies
This species gathers four alive subspecies:- Elephas maximus indicus , the Indian elephant;
- Elephas maximus maximus , the elephant of Sri Lanka;
- Elephas maximus sumatrensis , the elephant of Sumatra;
- Elephas maximus borneensis , the elephant of Borneo.
- Elephas maximus asurus , the elephant of the Middle East - extinct towards 100 av. J. - C.
- Elephas maximus rubridens , the elephant of China - extinct in XVe century in the east of China
Characteristics
The surface of a Indian elephant is calculable mathematically by the following formula:
where H is equal to the height in meters of the shoulders on the basis of the ground and C is equal to the circumference of the print of the foot.
See too
elephant|Elephant
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