Asian Elephant facts: gentle giants | Animal Fact Files

On this episode of Animal Fact Files discover some of the largest land mammals in the world.

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[Col]

I love elephants! Such unique and amazing creatures.

[Kermit]

Asian elephents are very similar to woolly mammoths, so if you are imagining what a woolly mammoth was like, just observe an asian elephant and imagine lots of fur and big tusks.

[stuartcummings]

It’s a good day when you find out you’re favourite youtuber has made a video about you’re favourite animal

[Mr_Chris__]

Elephants are such lovely animals. They need all the help they can get these days.

In regards to deforestation (one of many threats to elephants), a wide variety of things can be done to help reduce the rate of it.

One thing that might help would be to keep our wooden furniture for as long as possible. If we replace it with brand new furniture too frequently, the demand for fresh wood will remain. While the demand for wood remains high, loggers will continue chopping trees down in high numbers.

Some of the wooden furniture in my home is over 30+ years old and still in good condition. I have no plans to replace it any time soon. Wooden furniture can last a long time if you take care of it.

Replanting trees and allowing everything else to grow back should be heavily promoted. For one thing, it will help make it more difficult for poachers to access certain areas populated by elephants.

[helenaprudenciado]

African elephant ears are shaped like the map of Africa while the Asian elephant ears are shaped like India.

[SlapstickGenius]

Although mostly portrayed as both gentle and heroic animals, elephants are dangerous at times and can attack or even kill humans for certain reasons.

[eunaekim]

Weird trivia item - with elephants, digestion takes place only in the intestines! An elephant does in fact have a stomach, but this is basically just a place to store food.

[DerekVinson-hung]

Colonel Hathi is the only Asian elephant who forgets

[SlapstickGenius]

Elephants are as commonly shown in Bollywood movies (where their roles range from transports to adoptive relatives) as in Hollywood’s jungle films (where they primarily have a role as the transports of Tarzan).

[SlapstickGenius]

This video is usually about Asian elephants. Maybe there’s not much left for the African elephant.

[mhdfrb]

U forgot that Asian elephant are the closest living relative of Mammoth than the African one

[SecretWars]

Why does *No* video have my answer? I’m so torn* Why have I seen vids with #AsianElephants with ears that look even smaller with white surrounding them? *Not talking about their spots!* Zoologist ? Anyone? *sigh* #ElephantLove feeling ignored..🥺🐘❤️💯🕊♾