THE INDIAN ELEPHANT

The Indian Elephant is found in India, Shrilanka, Myanmar, Thailand & Malasia & the island of Sumatra. Unlike African elephants, Indian elephants avoid heat and prefer shade and cool climate. Due to spread of human population, now a days elephants are termed as enemy of the crops but it must be remembered that it is human encroachment in their territory that has caused this problem. Every one of us is familiar with an elephant. The elephants love small branches with green leaves, bananas and sugarcane. The trunk of an elephant is a very remarkable organ. It is a prolongation of nose. It is nearly eight feet long. It’s tipis very sensitive & acts like a finger. By aid of the trunk water and food are carrid to the mouth. The same trunk can be used to lift a tree of pick a pin. Elephants use their trunk to spray water over their body. The ears of Indian elephants are smaller then African elephants. They are also shorter in height then their African counter part. The head of an Indian elephants is concave and the colour lighter than that of the African elephant.