One genus, Pachycrocuta, was a 200 kg ( 440 lb ) mega-scavenger that could splinter the bones of elephants.

For instance, Anura is the name of the order of frogs but also is the name of a genus of plants ( although not current: it is a synonym ); Aotus is the genus of golden peas and night monkeys ; Oenanthe is the genus of wheatears and water dropworts, Prunella is the genus of accentors and self-heal, and Proboscidea is the order of elephants and the genus of devil's claws.

African elephants form a widely-accepted taxon, the genus Loxodonta

Elephant seals ( sea elephants ) are large, oceangoing seals in the genus Mirounga.

The family diverged from a common ancestor of the Elephantidae, which includes the extinct genus Mammuthus, the mammoths, and extant species of Elephas and Loxodonta, the modern elephants.

The genus Cobboldia breeds in elephants.

Several extinct species have been identified as belonging to the genus, including Elephas recki, Elephas antiquus, and the dwarf elephants E. falconeri and E. cypriotes.

Other prints show the presence of twenty other animal species, among them hyenas, wild cats ( Machairodus ), baboons, wild boar, giraffes, gazelles, rhinos, several kinds of antelope, hipparion, buffalo, elephants ( of the extinct Deinotherium genus ), hare and birds.

Palaeoloxodon belongs to the genus Elephas and so is more closely related to the Asian Elephant than the Asian is to the two species of African elephants in genus Loxodonta.

Beginning about 5 million years ago, they were gradually replaced by modern elephants, but the last two South American species, in the genus Cuvieronius, did not finally become extinct until possibly as recently as 9, 100 BP, and Stegomastodon remains have been dated as recently as 6, 060 BP in the Valle del Magdalena, Colombia.

Arsinoitherium is an extinct genus of paenungulate mammal related to elephants, sirenians, hyraxes and the extinct desmostylians, as well as to other extinct embrithopods.

E. recki was a successful grass eating elephant that lived throughout the Pliocene and the Pleistocene until it was pushed to extinction, perhaps by competition with members of the genus Loxodonta, the African elephants of today.

African elephants have traditionally been classified as a single species comprising two distinct subspecies, namely the savanna elephant ( Loxodonta africana africana ) and the forest elephant ( Loxodonta africana cyclotis ), but recent DNA analysis suggests that these may actually constitute distinct species.

File: Loxodonta africana-Roger Williams Park Zoo, USA-8a. jpg | Uniquely, elephants draw water into their trunks and squirt it into their mouths.

The elephant – or rather its statuette in the Natural History Museum – was made holotype of Richard Lydekker's proposed subspecies ( Loxodonta africana rothschildi ) for the large elephants of the eastern Sahel.

Some ancient powers in Africa did make use of elephants, but they employed the now-extinct North African subspecies Loxodonta ( africana ) pharaoensis ( see the article on war elephants for an overview ).

Only two genera, Loxodonta ( African elephants ) and Elephas ( Asiatic elephants ), are living.

The disputed pygmy elephants of the Congo basin, often assumed to be a separate species ( Loxodonta pumilio ) by cryptozoologists, are probably forest elephants whose diminutive size and / or early maturity is due to environmental conditions.

Some legends describe it as having an elephant-like body with a long neck and tail and a small head, a description which has been suggested to be similar in appearance to that of the extinct Sauropoda, while others describe it as more closely resembling elephants, rhinoceros, and other known animals.

For example, the set of carboxylic acids that are best known as the intermediates in the citric acid cycle are present in all known organisms, being found in species as diverse as the unicellular bacteria Escherichia coli and huge multicellular organisms like elephants.

* Before this year – Textile with elephants and camels, known today as the Suaire de St-Josse, from Khurasan or Central Asia, is made.

The College Arms are flanked by curious creatures known as yales, mythical beasts with elephants ' tails, antelopes ' bodies, goats ' heads, and swivelling horns.

Cyprus was settled by humans in the Paleolithic period ( known as the stone age ) who coexisted with various dwarf animal species, such as dwarf elephants ( Elephas cypriotes ) and pygmy hippos ( Hippopotamus minor ) well into the Holocene.

It is the largest known ground sloth, as big as modern elephants and would have only been exceeded in its time by a few species of mammoth.

In this paper he analyzed skeletal remains of Indian and African elephants as well as mammoth fossils, and a fossil skeleton known at that time as the ' Ohio animal '.

Chimpanzees and elephants are known to throw leaves and branches over fallen members of their family groups.

His illustrations of panels of Maya script in the Temple of Inscriptions at Palenque included clear depictions of heads of elephants ( now known to be erroneous embellishments ).

Whales, elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceros, giraffes, okapi, and alligators are known to use infrasound to communicate over distances — up to hundreds of miles in the case of whales.

The best known residents are the giant pandas, but the Zoo is also home to birds, great apes, big cats, asian elephants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, aquatic animals, small mammals and many more.

The three to four men manning the howdah, including the driver, known as a mahout, were armed with sarissae, javelins, pikes or bows to harass enemy soldiers who attempted to close in and attack the elephants.

Mae Hong Son historical records state that in the year 1831, which corresponds to the reign of King Nangklao ( Rama III ) of the Rattanakosin Period, in the mueang of Phing Nakhon ( เม ื องพ ิ งค ์ นคร ) known today as Chiang Mai, in the lands of the Kingdom of Lannathai, was Phraya Chiang Mai Mahawong ( พระยาเช ี ยงใหม ่ มหาวงศ ์), who was later to ascend to the rank of Phra Chao Mahottraprathet Racha Thibodi ( พระเจ ้ ามโหตรประเทศราชาธ ิ บด ี), who knew that to the west of Chiang Mai, which meant the lands of today's Mae Hong Son, was a geography of tall mountains and dense forests inhabited by a myriad of forest creatures of which wild elephants in particular were in great abundance, and thus ordered Lord Kaeo, who was a relative of his and a local military chief and governor, to herd these elephants out into the custody of mahouts, to survey the feasibility of this task on such western frontierlands and to be of further service in the capturing of the elephants so that they might be trained for labour thereafter.

Although bulls and elephants are known to use their horns or tusks ( respectively ) to gore opponents, this is often a defensive reaction to a threat or intrusion.

Modern elephants have this ability and are known to swim in that manner for up to 6 hours and.

Calle del Laurel, known as " the path of the elephants " and Calle San Juan are typical streets where various restaurants and tapas bars offer some of the best pinchos and tapas in northern Spain.

The Lowveld is known for its high concentration of big game, including the larger animals, like African elephants, rhino, zebra and wildebeest, while the slow-flowing streams and wetlands of the Lowveld are a haven for the hippos.

Humans, the great apes, and elephants are the only other species known to have spindle cells, species all well known for their high intelligence.

A division of war elephants is known as elephantry.

Elephantidae is a taxonomic family, collectively elephants and mammoths.

The African and the Asian elephants diverged from a common ancestor some 7. 6 million years ago.

African elephants are distinguished from Asian elephants in several ways, the most noticeable being their much larger ears.

In Asian elephants, only males have tusks, but both males and females of African elephants have tusks and are usually less hairy than their Asian cousins.

Since then some southern African countries have had their populations of elephants " downlisted " to Appendix Two allowing sale of some stockpiles.

In the ten years preceding a decision in 1989 by CITES to ban international trade in African elephant ivory the population of African elephants declined from 1. 3 million to around 600, 000.

The decision came after several mass slaughters of African elephants, most notably the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter in Chad.

Despite arguments prevailing on the ivory trade for the last thirty years through CITES, there is one fact that virtually all informed parties now agree-poaching of African elephants for ivory is now seriously on the increase.

Their social structure was probably the same as that of African and Asian elephants, with females living in herds headed by a matriarch, whilst bulls lived solitary lives or formed loose groups after sexual maturity.

In the summer of 2003, the San Diego Zoological Society and Lowry Park Zoo orchestrated the capture of 11 wild African elephants from the Hlane Royal National Park in Swaziland.

To represent his African conquest, and perhaps to outdo even Bacchus, Pompey had a team of elephants yoked to his triumphal chariot, but they proved too tight a fit for one of the gates en route to the Capitol.

Sub-Saharan Africans had mostly wild mammals, whereas Eurasians chanced to have the most docile large animals on the planet: horses and camels that are easily tamed for human transport ; but their biological relatives zebras and onagers are untameable ; and although African elephants can be tamed, it is very difficult to breed them in captivity ; goats and sheep for hides, clothing, and cheese ; cows for milk ; bullocks for tilling fields and transport ; and benign animals such as pigs and chickens.

Cuvier's analysis established, for the first time, the fact that African and Indian elephants were different species and that mammoths were not the same species as either African or Indian elephants and therefore must be extinct.

Gowdy's novel The White Bone is written from the perspective of African elephants.

Babar and his elephants escort Mina Murray and Allan Quartermain through the African jungle.