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.

Comments

1. You finally see the dark side of elephants. They are built to fight even though they only eat plants.
2. Stupid anti-human video. What a moron.
3. Deadly, is hardly a realistic description of the elephants. If one looks at things in context, there are now so few left after being exterminated by some human beings, it is more fitting to use that epithet to describe some human beings instead.
4. Asians are so biased, they always want their animals to be the largest, they always claim Asian elephants are larger even if you put the facts in front of them Asians still deny
5. Get rid of the useless negroes inhabiting Africa and let these beautiful creatures flourish once more
6. +Dinh Le you don't know nothing about proboscideans.
7. Elephants are the biggest land animals so we need to leave them alone
8. lol love how u pretend u care about elephants but u eat animals every day that were killed to get on ur plate... atleast i dont PARTAKE IN THE PROCESS OF KILLING U DO I DONT BIG DIFFERENCE
9. If you get crushed by an elephant, I wouldn't care.
10. The upper lip and nose of the African elephant are extended to form the trunk.
11. u don't care that the chickens and cows u eat every day died to get on ur plate either do u shame on you although I may not care atleast im not the one actually involved in killing them or supporting the killing of elephants
12. I don't think your really smart.Are you?I don't suppose you like elephants.What they are doing is POACHING the elephant and you don't care if the elephant dies?Shame on you.
13. NOT!
14. Watch out!If you do that you would go to jail.If thats ever going to happen to you.You really deserve it.
15. NOT!
16. Whoa, first you're assuming I'm not a vegetarian. I'll be honest, I'm not. There is a major difference between slaughtering sheep, swine, and cattle vs poaching elephants. There are about 100 million cows in the US alone, almost 300 million in India. In 2006, there were 10,000 African elephants. Furthermore, elephants are mostly poached for their tusks, a luxury in the East. Cattle, swine, and sheep are mostly slaughtered for food, but they contribute other goods too, such as hide.
17. so ur telling me the whale walks on LAND I thought they swam in the ocean
18. why do u care u eat cows and use them for leather and food and such that guy was just doing to elephants what u do to cows and pigs and sheep no different stop being a hypocrit
19. I could've done without seeing the elephant get shot...pisses me off so bad.
20. that elephant went down fast bolt action rifles are very powerful. just to many elephant, not enough land. sad.