Elephant

The elephant  is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in geographical region from Asian nation within the west to island within the east.

Since 1986, E. maximus has been listed as endangered by IUCN as the population has declined by a minimum of five hundredth over the last 3 generations, estimated to be 60–75 years. Asian elephants are primarily vulnerable by degradation, fragmentation and loss of habitat, and poaching.[3] In 2003, the wild population was estimated at between forty one,410 and 52,345 individuals. Female captive elephants have lived on the far side sixty years once unbroken in semi-natural surroundings, such as forest camps. In zoos, elephants die at a much younger age and area unit declining as a result of a coffee birth and high death rate.[5]As is common with large animals, usually . On average, the shoulder height of males and females rarely exceeds a pair of.75 m (9.0 ft) and that of the females, 2.4 m. Average shoulder height of females is 2.4 m  and average weight is 2.7 t (3.0 short tons), while average shoulder height of males is a pair of.75 m (9.0 ft), and average weight is 4 t (4.4 short tons).[8][9][10] Length of body and head including trunk is five.5–6.5 m (18–21 ft) with the tail being one.2–1.5 m (3.9–4.9 ft) long.[4] The largest bull elephant was recorded by the Maharajah of Susang within the Garo Hills of Assam, India in 1924, it weighed 7 tonnes , stood 3.43 m (11.3 ft) tall at the shoulders and was eight.06 m (26.4 ft) long from head to tail.[10][11][12] There are reports of larger people as tall as three.7 m (12 ft).[7]Asian elephants are extremely intelligent and self-conscious.[16] They have a really large and extremely convoluted cortex, a trait conjointly shared by humans,  and certain dolphin species. Elephants have a greater volume and accessible for psychological feature process than all different existing land animals,  in the class of nice apes in terms of psychological feature skills for tool use and power creating.[17] They exhibit a wide sort of behaviours, including those associated with , learning,  of tools, compassion, cooperation, self-awareness, memory, and language. Elephants are reportable to go to safer ground throughout natural disasters like landslide and earthquakes, although there have been no  ionerous to recreate or predict natural disasters.[citation needed]