There are two elephant species--Asian and African. The difference begin with the ears. The African elephant's ears are enormous and, oddly enough, shaped like the continent of Africa. The Asian elephant's ears, while much smaller, are shaped like India.
And they use their trunks differently. The African elephant uses his like fingers and picks things up as you and I would with our thumb and forefinger. The Asian elephant picks things up by curling that trunk around them, but is so adept he can pick up the tiniest item.
African elephants have four toes on each foot, Asian elephants five. Watching an elephant walk, with legs like moving tree trunks, it is difficult to realize that these gigantic animals are actually walking on their toes. Considering the bone structure inside that huge foo... (查看原文)
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