Web Search Results for "Elephants"

Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
12 Oct 2024 at 2:11am
Elephants are the largest land mammals on earth and have distinctly massive bodies, large ears, and long trunks. They use their trunks to pick up objects, trumpet warnings, greet other elephants, or suck up water for drinking or bathing, among other uses.

African Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
10 Nov 2020 at 9:11pm
African elephants are the largest animals walking the Earth. Their herds wander through 37 countries in Africa. They are easily recognized by their trunk that is used for communication and handling objects.

African savanna elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
28 Mar 2023 at 6:17am
African savanna elephants are the largest species of elephant and the biggest terrestrial animal on Earth. They are easily distinguished by their very large ears?which allow them to radiate excess heat?and front legs which are noticeably longer than the hind legs.

Asian Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
10 Feb 2024 at 9:49pm
Asian elephants are extremely sociable, forming groups of six to seven related females that are led by the oldest female, the matriarch. Like African elephants, these groups occasionally join others to form larger herds, although these associations are relatively short-lived.

Indian Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
15 Aug 2020 at 12:57am
Indian elephants may spend up to 19 hours a day feeding and they can produce about 220 pounds of dung per day while wandering over an area that can cover up to 125 square miles. This helps to disperse germinating seeds.

African Forest Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
24 Aug 2024 at 11:51am
African forest elephants are smaller than African savanna elephants, the other African elephant species. Their ears are more oval-shaped and their tusks are straighter and point downward (the tusks of savanna elephants curve outwards).

Top 10 Elephant Facts - World Wildlife Fund
19 Mar 2023 at 10:20pm
Though elephants are native to only Africa and Asia, they hold significant cultural and symbolic meaning around the world. WWF focuses on conserving the world's largest land mammal in landscapes across both Asia and Africa.

Species Spotlight: African Elephant | Pages | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
7 Nov 2024 at 12:21am
How many species of elephants are there? There are three species of elephant?African Savanna, African Forest and Asian. How do elephants sense warnings from other elephants?

Sri Lankan Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
2 Nov 2024 at 8:51pm
Elephants hold symbolic, cultural and economic importance in Sri Lanka. They attract tourists who visit national parks to observe elephants in the wild. They support logging operations by dragging felled logs and have special significance in religious events.

Tackling critical threats facing Asian elephants | Stories | WWF
12 Aug 2023 at 12:57am
Why are Asian elephants in Southeast Asia and China of particular conservation concern? In Southeast Asia and China, Asian elephants are facing escalating habitat loss and fragmentation, human-elephant conflict, poaching, and small populations that are increasingly isolated.



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