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Elephant beauty pageant is an annual event held in Chitwan National Park, Nepal for selecting the most beautiful female elephant. The main aim of the competition is to enhance the bonding between elephants and humans. The event act as a major tourist attraction in the national park.
Elephant. Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), the African forest elephant ( L. cyclotis ), and the Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ). They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea; extinct ...
EarthCam, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, United States, provides webcam content, technology and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam.com is a network of scenic webcams offering a complete searchable database of views of places around the world. As the company grew, EarthCam expanded beyond building its network of tourism cameras ...
Elephants can produce infrasonic calls which occur at frequencies less than 20 Hz. [14] Infrasonic calls are important, particularly for long-distance communication, [1] in both Asian and African elephants. For Asian elephants, these calls have a frequency of 14–24 Hz, with sound pressure levels of 85–90 dB and last 10–15 seconds. [15]
African elephants are members of the genus Loxodonta comprising two living elephant species, the African bush elephant ( L. africana) and the smaller African forest elephant ( L. cyclotis ). Both are social herbivores with grey skin. However, they differ in the size and colour of their tusks as well as the shape and size of their ears and skulls .
Captive elephants have been kept in animal collections for at least 3,500 years. The first elephant arrived in North America in 1796. [1] London Zoo, the first scientific zoo, housed elephants beginning in 1831. [2] Before the 1980s, zoos obtained their elephants by capturing them from the wild. Increased restrictions on the capture of wild ...
Kottoor Soman (c. 1942), also known as Konniyil Soman and Kottur Soman, is an Indian elephant and retired kumki who was inaccurately claimed or represented in 2020 to be the oldest living elephant in the world, owned by the Kerala Forest Department, but the claim of birth year has not been confirmed, which is why his submission into Guinness ...
The African forest elephant ( Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant. It is native to humid tropical forests in West Africa and the Congo Basin. It is the smallest of the three living elephant species, reaching a shoulder height of 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in). As with other African elephants, both sexes have straight ...