Deadly African Elephant The world's largest land animal

African elephants are the species of elephants in the genus Loxodonta, one of the two existing genera in Elephantidae. Although it is commonly believed that the genus was named by Georges Cuvier in 1825, Cuvier spelled it Loxodonte. An anonymous author romanized the spelling to Loxodonta and the ICZN recognizes this as the proper authority.

African elephants are bigger than Asian Elephants. Males stand 3.64 meters (12 ft) tall at the shoulder and weigh 5,455 kg (12,000 lbs), while females stand 3 meters (10 ft) and weigh 3,636 kg to 4,545 kg (8,000 to 11,000 lbs). However, males can get as big as 15,000 lbs (6,800 kg).

Elephants have four molars; each weighs about 11 lb (5.0 kg) and measures about 12 inches long. As the front pair wear down and drop out in pieces, the back pair shift forward and two new molars emerge in the back of the mouth. Elephants replace their teeth six times. At about 40 to 60 years of age the elephant no longer has teeth and will likely die of starvation, a common cause of death.

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[travlow1]

I could have done without seeing that elephant get shot in the head.

[MOTAMOBOLOS]

honestly me myself as a humani fuckin hate myself i fuckin hate the human race. I Fuckin admire its art and creativity and reasoning and philosophy but the rest of al the 2 3 world countries are a bunch of pigs, no offence or insult. . I would rather suggest to end and whipe out ans 80 percent of the plague of humans to actually have a balanced ecosystem.

[babylove9306]

that is bulls--t!! they kill them like it is fun!!

[Sage80]

The humans that are pushing elephants away are Africans...since it IS in Africa. therefore, this is racist. Which minority group to appeal to? Africans or endangered animals? oh, the quandry of being a liberal.

[Sage80]

Do these specials always have to have the "humans are evil, except for animal show narrators with british accents" narrative? get over yourselves.

[whiteisdevil]

@220phenom now i know why arabs want to kill u all

[dunejumpertwc]

@KKJK71

*without hunters we wouldn't get to eat any meat. But I agree, I don't see much point in killing elephants.

[chsspartan]

hey it's rosey o' donald

[billybob42081]

fucking peta idiots. so sick the propaganda lies lunacy. its mans world not elephants. elephants mustbe controled and hunted to maintain numbers. they are not endangered in any way whatsoever. theres been over 1,000 elephant human murders since 1990 world wide, they are more dangerous and kill more then lions or any animal on planet. they are too big too agressive to destructive to environment they descimate vegetation they destroy entire forrests in weeks, they must be hunted controled idiots

[FutureAbe]

The deadliest animal in the world is overpopulating the planet and will soon destroy it.