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	The Elephants
		Elephants are very successful animals and they have been around for a long time, the fossil record indicates that more than 300 species have walked the earth over a period of 55 million years.
		Elephants are large animals that live in complex social groups, they need a lot of room to live happily and easily consume 100 kg or 220 lbs of vegetation a day.
		The Indian elephant is relatively easily domesticated and there are historic records to show that elephants were used as beasts in agriculture and forestry in the Indus Valley civilisation that thrived 4,000 years ago.
	www.earthlife.net /mammals/elephants.html (1336 words)

	Realistic Elephant Collectable Figurines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		THE ELEPHANTS OF AFRICA reveals some lesser-known, yet equally important populations that inhabit diverse environments of the continent, from the thick rain forests of the Congo Basin to the parched deserts of Namibia.
		However, the data suggest that desert elephants are actually savannah elephants who have adapted to the rugged lifestyle of the barren desert.
		And unlike savannah elephants' curved tusks, forest dwellers' are small and straight, designed for negotiating routes through dense foliage.
	www.martialartsgear.com - !http: //www.martialartsgear.com/Elephants/Elephant_Figurines/Realistic.shtml (280 words)

	Elephants
		Elephants, the largest of all land animals, are found on two continents: Africa and Asia.
		The African elephant species is actually two subspecies, the forest (which is the smaller and lives in central and west Africa) and the savannah (which roams the plains and bush lands).
		Elephants use their tusks (which can grow to be nine-plus feet long) for removing bark, digging for roots, and as weapons.
	www.hsus.org /wildlife/a_closer_look_at_wildlife/elephants.html (468 words)

	Taxonomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The elephants of the world are the living manifestation of several million years of shifting distributions and evolution in response to environmental circumstance and species interactions.
		Also, savannah and forest elephants were genetically similar to other elephants in their same group (either forest or savannah) despite often extensive geographic distance, indicating close genetic relationship within the groups in contrast to genetic dissimilarity between them.
		African elephants were estimated as of 1995 to have particularly high densities in Gabon and Zaire in the central African forest, and outside of the central forest area, in Botswana, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe (Barnes35).
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/l/r/lrs179/Taxonomy.htm (1242 words)

	Elephant Information
		Elephant tusks are the major source of ivory, but because of the increased rarity of elephants, hunting and ivory trade is now illegal.
		African elephants tend to be larger than the Asian species (up to 4m high and 7500kg) and have bigger ears (which are rich in veins and thought to help in cooling off the blood in the hotter African climate).
		Information on habits, breeding, predators, etc. "Elephants are highly gregarious animals and move around in family groups The leader of each group is normally the oldest and most experienced cow, she is known as the Matriarch".
	www.junglewalk.com /info/elephant-information.htm (1110 words)

	Elephant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Elephant populations in West Africa, on the other hand, are generally small and fragmented, and only account for a small proportion of the continental total.
		According to biologists, the elephant's trunk is said to have over forty thousand individual muscles in it[1], making it sensitive enough to pick up a single blade of grass, yet strong enough to rip the branches off a tree.
		Elephants are the only mammals to have four knees, most others either have two knees and two elbows, though the knees are often found in the front legs, or they have four elbows, like cats or dogs.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Elephant.htm (8619 words)

	Science Show - 8/3/2003: Another Elephant Species
		And so elephants were a wonderful challenge after chimpanzees, and we picked African over Asian elephants because frankly, Asian elephants are almost a domesticated animal now and the African elephants are endangered, threatened by humans and need all the help we can give them.
		We always knew that the forest elephant looked different, now we know that the forest elephant and the regular savannah elephant have been separate species for at least two to two and a half million years.
		The West African elephant is separated by a strip of no elephant land and it looks like they haven’t interbred for the others for at least a million years, maybe two million years.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s798390.htm (1500 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Savannah elephant
		There were once thought to be two subspecies of African elephant: L.a.africana (savannah elephant) and L.a.cyclotis (forest elephant), but recent research has meant they have been reclassified as two separate species named Loxodonta africana and Loxodonta cyclotis.
		Savannah elephants are the largest of the elephant species, making them the largest land animal in the world.
		Elephants are the only animals in Africa that dig deep holes in search of water.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/177.shtml (469 words)

	African Elephant
		A bull (male) of a Forest Elephant has a shoulder height of 160 to 286cm in males, while the females are slightly smaller witha height of 160 to 240cm.
		The size of a Savannah Elephant is a little bigger and males have a shoulder height of 300 to 400cm while females are roughly 240 to 340cm.
		But as elephants have an inefficient digestive system, they digest only about 40 per cent of what they eat.Their trunk is employed to pull branches off trees, uproot grass, pluck fruit, and to place food in their mouths.
	library.thinkquest.org /27257/africanelephant.html (705 words)

	African Bush Elephant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The African Bush Elephant is the largest land dwelling animal, normally reaching 6 to 7.3 meters (19.7 to 24.0 feet) in length and 3 to 3.5 meters (9.8 to 11.5 feet) in height, and weighing between 7,000 and 10,000 kg (15,000-22,000 lb.
		Elephants rip apart all kind of plants, and knock down trees with the tusks if they are not able to reach the tree leaves.
		In most places, the adult African Bush Elephant lacks natural predators thanks to its great size, but the calves (especially the newborn) are vulnerable to lion and crocodile attacks, as well as the rare leopard and hyena attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Savannah_Elephant (1730 words)

	Habitat and General Info.
		The forest elephant has smaller, rounder ears; tends to be shorter; typically has straight tusks; and often has more hair than the Savannah elephant.
		Essentially, the life span of any African elephant is limited by the amount of time it takes to wear out their six sets of molars (Sites, 1971).
		During the dry season, elephants tend to remain in more forest like environments, with the exception of the desert elephant which moves about 100 km (60 miles) per day due to the fact that there are few human settlements in the way of their migration paths.
	www.bio.davidson.edu /people/vecase/Behavior/Spring2002/Havard/H.html (880 words)

	The Elephant Sanctuary, Hohenwald, Tennessee
		These elephants include circus and zoo elephants that are ill, live alone, live in impoverished environments or other equally distressing situations.
		Savannah is a resident at the El Paso Zoo.
		The article went on to say that "the beloved elephants made a move that will allow them to spend their golden years in style when zoo officials released the pair into a new grassy and tree-shaded exercise yard".
	www.elephants.com /needy.htm (1529 words)

	NATURE: The Elephants of Africa - Life of an Elephant
		Sprawled across this continent are vast savannahs, seemingly endless deserts, and impenetrable rain forests.
		While the celebrated savannah elephants of Kenya and other parts of East Africa draw thousands of tourists to the local parks, this group makes up only a portion of Africa's elephants.
		An elephant calf is usually born into an extended family, headed by an older female elephant who serves as matriarch.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/nature/elephants/life.html (674 words)

	Elephant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mammals of the genus Loxodonta, often known collectively as African elephants, are currently found in 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
		During the dry season elephants use their tusks to dig into dry river beds to reach underground sources of water.
		"The evolution and phylogeography of the African elephant inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence and nuclear microsatellite markers".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elephant (8642 words)

	VOICE for All Animals
		Savannah is over fifty years old, and she has paid her dues to the human entertainment industry.
		Unlike Sissy, while Savannah did not (to our knowledge) have to endure a two-hour beating session that was caught on tape and released to the entire world, she is nonetheless abused by the sheer fact of being kept in captivity.
		April 15, 2002 "A new elephant for the El Paso Zoo is among the issues on the agenda for Council to consider letting zoo accept new elephant" by Daniel Borunda (press here).
	www.zianet.com /boje/voice/pages/Free_Savanah.html (655 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| African elephant 'is two species'
		Using biopsy samples collected by dart from 195 free-ranging elephants in 11 African countries, they tried to see if there was a genetic difference between animals that live on the savannah and those that spend their time in the forests.
		Forest elephants are smaller and have straighter and thinner tusks than their savannah cousins, and they have rounded ears and distinct skull morphology.
		The researchers compared the DNA variation in four nuclear genes, and say their analysis suggested that genetic distinctions between forest and savannah elephants correspond to 58% of the difference in the same genes between African and Asian elephants.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1505573.stm (609 words)

	Dear Mayor and Council Members
		Our argument is based on a very simple and irrefutable fact: Savannah would have a far happier life at the Elephant Sanctuary, and she deserves to have it.
		There she can be reunited with Sissy, play with other elephants, roam free throughout acres of open land, bath in ponds, and live the happy life she has earned after a half-century of existence as a captive slave.
		When I think of Savannah at the zoo, I think of a being that is subjected to living under a repressive regime.
	www.zianet.com /boje/voice/update/letters_Free_Savannah.htm (1485 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Mammals - Up-close
		Everyone can recognise an elephant, although many do not realise that there are three species: Asian, African savannah and African forest.
		The African savannah elephant is probably the most familiar, with its large ears and long curving tusks.
		Elephants are famous for their good memories, that are a key feature in helping them to survive the variable, and often harsh, climate of the African plains.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/animals/mammals/up_close/elephant_index.shtml (108 words)

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		It was male and weighed about 12,000 kg (26,400 lb).[1] The smallest elephants, about the size of a calf or a large pig, were a prehistoric variant that lived on the island of Crete until 5000 BC, possibly 3000 BC.
		------------------------------------------- There are two populations of African elephants, Savannah and Forest, and recent genetic studies have led to a reclassification of these as separate species, the forest population now being called Loxodonta cyclotis, and the Savannah (or Bush) population termed Loxodonta africana.
		----------------------------- The Forest elephant and the Savannah elephant can hybridise successfully, though their preference for different terrains reduces the opportunities to hybridise.
	www.zazzle.com /product/235529243649904648 (494 words)

	Animal Facts - African Elephant - African Culture
		Countries found in: Africa - Small pockets of Forest Elephants live in western Africa; Savannah Elephants occur widely south of the Sahara.
		Food: Elephants eat an extremely varied vegetarian diet, including grass, leaves, twigs, bark, fruit and seed pods.
		Elephants have 6 sets of molar teeth; when the last set is lost, the animal is unable to eat and eventually dies.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art19477.asp (214 words)

	Elephant Paper
		Elephants from the tropical forests of Africa are morphologically
		free-ranging African elephants in 21 populations were examined for DNA
		limited hybridization or gene flow between forest and savannah elephants
	rex.nci.nih.gov /lgd/lgdhome/elephant.htm (115 words)

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