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Elephants are the largest existing land animals.
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- The elongated and prehensile trunk, or proboscis, consists of both the nose and upper lip, which fuse in early fetal development.
- Elephants are dichromats and they can see well in dim light but not in bright light.
- The animal's field of vision is compromised by the location and limited mobility of the eyes.
- A durable nictitating membrane shields the globe.
- Lacking a lacrimal apparatus (tear duct), the eye relies on the harderian gland in the orbit to keep it moist.
- The ossicles are adapted for hearing low frequencies, being most sensitive at 1 kHz.
- Of all the elephants, African bush elephants live in the hottest climates and have the largest ear flaps.
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- Larger ear surfaces contain more capillaries, and more heat can be released.
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- This effect is increased by flapping the ears back and forth.
- Warm blood flows into the capillaries, releasing excess heat into the environment.
- They contain numerous blood vessels called capillaries.
- Elephant ear flaps, or pinnae, are 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) thick in the middle with a thinner tip and supported by a thicker base.
- with a minimum of 35.2 °C (95.4 °F) during the cool season, and a maximum of 38.0 °C (100.4 °F) during the hot dry season.
- Elephants are homeotherms and maintain their average body temperature at ~ 36 °C (97 °F),
- Because of the size of the head, the neck is relatively short to provide better support.
- The brain is surrounded by arches in the skull, which serve as protection.
- The skull is built to withstand great stress, particularly when fighting or using the tusks.
- The cranium is particularly large and provides enough room for the attachment of muscles to support the entire head.
- By contrast, the lower jaw is dense.
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- These cavities give the inside of the skull a honeycomb-like appearance.
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- The skull contains air cavities (sinuses) that reduce the weight of the skull while maintaining overall strength.
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- African elephants have 21 pairs of ribs, while Asian elephants have 19 or 20 pairs.
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- The vertebrae are connected by tight joints, which limit the backbone's flexibility.
- The skeleton is made up of 326–351 bones.
- Elephants are the largest living terrestrial animals.
- some dramatically reducing in body size, such as the 1 metre (3.3 ft) tall dwarf elephant species Palaeoloxodon falconeri.
- Several species of proboscideans became isolated on islands and experienced insular dwarfism,
- The incisors developed into tusks of different shapes and sizes.
- The trunk evolved and grew longer to provide reach. The number of premolars, incisors, and canines decreased, and the cheek teeth (molars and premolars) became longer and more specialised.
- With that came longer limbs and wider feet with a more digitigrade stance, along with a larger head and shorter neck.
- Over the course of their evolution, probobscideans grew in size.
- with their latest survival being on Wrangel Island around 4,000 years ago.
- with mammoths only surviving in relict populations on islands around the Bering Strait into the Holocene,
- with all remaining non-elephantid proboscideans (including Stegodon, mastodons, and the gomphotheres Cuvieronius and Notiomastodon) and Palaeoloxodon becoming extinct,
- Proboscideans underwent a dramatic decline during the Late Pleistocene,
- becoming widely distributed in Eurasia.
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- At the end of the Early Pleistocene, around 800,000 years ago the elephantid genus Palaeoloxodon dispersed outside of Africa,
- and mammoths migrating into North America around 1.5 million years ago.
- with gomphotheres dispersing into South America as part of the Great American interchange,