What's Difference Between African And Asian Elephants?

Can you tell the difference between African and Asian Elephants? Well, you'll certainly be able to tell them apart after watching this video.

0:00 How to tell African Elephants and Asian Elephants apart
1:03 QUIZ
1:41 Baby Elephant Montage

Elephants are marvellous animals, being some of the biggest and smartest creatures on our planet, but very few people actually realise that not all elephants are the same. People commonly confuse the African and Asian Elephant, and rightly so as they do share a lot of of physical similarities, but this video will teach you how to differentiate the two elephants with ease, allowing you to impress your friends with your animal knowledge. We sincerely hope you enjoy this video, and if you ever have any feedback or suggestions for future videos please put them in the comments down below, and we'll do our very best to deliver.

All Elephants, regardless if they're from Africa or Asia, deserve our love, appreciation and respect. Please do your best to help support Elephants by donating to conservation organisations, living a greener lifestyle, and trying your best to avoid single-use-plastics. If we all work together, we can help protect our beautiful planet and simultaneously safeguard the survival of all species that inhabit the Earth.

Songs:
(1) Avatar The Last Air Bender Soundtrack
(2) Sugar Cookie
(3) Fredji - Happy Life

The footage shown in this video does not belong to The Earther. The only original content in this video is the voiceover, script and editing.

Don't forget to 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 and 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 for more awesome animal videos ♥️

Check us out on 𝗦𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 too!

[lovetheearther]

Welcome to the comments section! We'd love to know what animal video you'd like to see next from us. We read all comments and make an effort to deliver on our viewer's suggestions. So go ahead and recommend an animal video for us to make and we'll do the rest.

[darkpandalord]

African elephants and Asian elephants are part of an order of animals called Proboscidea, related to manatees, hyraxes, and the extinct Desmostylians and Embrithopods (including the Arsinoitheres). Proboscideans started off as small- to medium-sized semi-aquatic animals, but eventually began evolving into the massive megafauna we know and love today.

Proboscidea is broken down into two groups: Elephantiformes and Plesielephantiformes. Plesielephantiformes included the Deinotheres, which were medium- to massive-sized proboscideans distinguishable by their lack of facial tusks and the presence of two tusks on their chins that curved downward. Elephantiformes includes the modern-day African and Asian elephants, along with a whole host of related, now-extinct Proboscideans as well.

Mastodons were the first Proboscideans to split off from the group. You may know the mastodons from the forest-dwelling American mastodon of the Pleistocene, but mastodons were originally a group of elephantiformes that roamed Europe and Asia. Before they went extinct in Eurasia, mastodons made it to North America and survived until being hunted to extinction by our ancestors. Next are the gomphotheres. Particularly during the Miocene and Pliocene, gomphotheres looked incredibly weird, with elongated jaws and bore tusks at their ends. However, later on in the Pleistocene, gomphotheres, now found only in the Americas, mostly lost their odd lower jaws and looked fairly normal. They are actually the only known Proboscideans to have colonized South America. Their extinction coincides with the arrival of humans. There were also the stegodonts, known for their tusks that were very close together, so close that they are often depicted with their trunks at the sides of their tusks.

Then we get to the most recognizable group: Elephantidae. Within Elephantidae are two groups: Loxodonta and Elephantini. Loxodonta includes the modern-day African elephant, along with its relatives. The most notable members of the group were the massive Palaeoloxodons, some of the largest mammals to ever live. Palaeoloxodon recki in particular reached shoulder heights of over 17 feet, even surpassing the gargantuan Paraceratheres of the Oligocene. There were many close relatives of the modern-day African elephant, like Loxodonta atlantica and Loxodonta adaurora, but only two species remain today: the African bush elephant and African forest elephant. Within Elephantini are two groups: Elephas and Mammuthus. Mammuthus contains the mammoths, some of the most recognizable prehistoric animals. Including the very well-known woolly mammoth, there was also the massive Columbian mammoths of the Americas and the even more massive steppe mammoths of Eurasia. Behind them are the lesser known, older mammoth species, such as the southern mammoths, Mammuthus rumanus, Mammuthus africanavus of Africa, and the oldest known mammoth species, Mammuthus subplanifrons, of Africa. Elephas is the group that includes the Asian elephant and its close relatives, including Elephas ekorensis, Elephas hysudricus, etc. Yes, the Asian elephant are close relatives of the mammoths.

Also within Proboscidea are a host of elephantine animals with unknown relation to other Proboscideans, but they did exist. First, there are the Amebelodonts. The Amebelodonts, including amebelodon and platybelodon, were a group of Proboscideans noteable for their massive, flattened lower jaws and the presence of two, flat teeth on their ends, and flattened trunks, almost giving them a weird big mouth. The Amebelodonts spread out to Eurasia and the Americas from their African homeland, and lived in marshes and wetland environments, using their lower jaws to dig up aquatic vegetation. Another animal that is taxonomically unknown are the stegotetrabelodons, or the four-tusked elephants. These elephants are known for the presence of four massive tusks, including the recognizable facial tusks from their upper jaws as well as a pair of large tusks coming from their lower jaws.

Proboscidea used to be an incredibly diverse clade of animals, with countless groups and species. But nowadays, there are only two groups: the African elephants and the Asian elephants. African and Asian elephants, although related, are not THAT closely related, and are separated by millions of years of evolution.

[PleasentToBeAround]

We don't have to hit the lock button to lock it in lol

[brunoguydesire]

Aisian ears is like half of an heart designe

[brunoguydesire]

I love both african and asian, but asian is my favorite❤❤❤❤❤❤

[irenehillier]

There are more differences between the two species than what is stated in the video. Both male and female African elephants can have tusks, but only male Asian elephants can grow them. The African elephant trunk has two distinct ‘fingers’ compared to the Asian elephant's single 'finger'. An African elephant’s lower lips are short and round, whereas Asian elephants have long, tapered lower lips. African bush elephants have 4 toenails on the front feet and 3 on the back feet while Asian elephants have 5 toenails on the front feet and 4 on the back feet

[andywinslow]

That's an African elephant in the beginning

[AOSvilven]

Erm not accurate.. If you check Indian elephants.. You will get different data

[Unknownhacker]

Sam Asian elephant vare big size your analysis not right