Elephants of India

Elephants are the biggest surviving mammals on earth. For centuries, Asians have revered elephants and considered them as Gods, playing a major role in the culture and tradition of the countries. These elephants are smaller than the African elephants and have smaller ears. 

The Indian elephant is a subspecies of the Asiatic elephant which accounts for most of the remaining elephants in the continent. India, consisting a majority of Hindus revere the mighty beast equivalent to that of the Hindu God, Ganesh. These elephants can be found in the deep jungles of the country or inside the temples where they are seen to bless devotees. The Indian elephants are known to drink 53 gallons of water on a summer day. They are known to habitat the grasslands and tropical forests in the country. In India, they are found in abundant in places like Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Meghalaya where you can catch them at their lively best in the jungles. In some forest reserves you can ride on the backs of elephants on a safari of the jungle.

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Facts about Asian and African elephants:

The elephant species is divided into two types depending on their habitat, the African and Asiatic elephants and have many unique features that distinguish them from each other. They live on separate continents Africa and Asia. There are also several subspecies of elephants that come under these two types. The Indian, Sri Lankan and Sumatran elephants are the three subspecies of the Asiatic elephants that are found to be in existence now. Both these elephants are of different genocide where the African elephant is larger in size than the Asiatic elephants. The head of a typical African elephant is slightly larger than when compared to the Asiatic elephants where the African elephant has a single round shaped head while the Asians have two domed head having an indent at the center. Elephants are often addressed by the size of their ears. African elephants have bigger ears than those of Asiatic elephants. The beauty and pride of an elephant lies in its tusk. All African elephants have tusks but in Asian elephants only the male is seen with tusk. They both love water and are known to playfully frolic in rivers and lakes. The strength of an elephant lies in its tusk which is the reason when confronted by a lion or tiger they can easily match up to their opponent’s strength.