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African Elephant Profile

Common Name: Elephant Elephant(Fr) Elefante(Sp)
Scientific Name: Elephas maximus (southern Asia), Loxodonta africana  (Africa).                           
Geographical Location: Africa, Asia,
 
Subspecies: There were once thought to be two subspecies of African elephant, thatis 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 elephant are [...]

The Researchers study said that humans and chimpanzies are as similar to each other as horses and donkeys are.
Cimpanzies are virtually right to the same as humans, according to new genetic research.
 The speial scientific name given to human beings is Homo sapiens and the US sientists want chimpanies and another type of ape to be [...]

The Chronic s flicker is also known as the Sea Wasp or Box jellyfish, the Chronic s flicker is considered to be the most dangerous jellyfish and one of the most dangerous venomous creatures in the world.
An individual sea wasp enough venom to kill 60 adult humans and can do so in only [...]

 Rats, like humans, cogitate problems by carefully weighing the costs and benefits of a situation before making decisions, according to a new study on Wistar rats, a rodent developed for research.
 The study is the first to demonstrate that a non-human animal creates a desired ratio, or standard, to decide between options requiring varying levels of [...]

  
  An African elephant calf, drinks water  with his mother,  at the Louisville Zoo. An african elephant calf  weighed 285 pounds (129 kilograms) at birth. Full grown, African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth, some reaching 14,000 pounds (6,350 kilograms) and eating 300 pounds (136 kilograms) of food a day.  African elephants are threatened by [...]