Animals On Earth: India, Asia, China, Hawaii, And Madagascar

Indian Elephant

The Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three extant recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, native to mainland Asia.

Indian Elephants are endangered!Indian Elephants can eat up to 330 lbs of vegetation per day.They do not have bones in their trunks, but they have over 150,000 individual muscles.Indian Elephants are a sub-species of the Asian Elephant.Indian Elephants are known to feed on over 100 species of plants.

They are herbivores and eat large quantities of fruit, grasses, roots, and bark.

Adult Asian elephants have no known predator other than humans. Female Asian elephants live in herds of a dozen or more related females of all ages led by the largest, oldest female called the matriarch. All females in the herd help raise the young.

Currently, they are found in four fragmented populations in the south, north, central and northeast India. Habitat generalists' habitat ranges from wet tropical evergreen forests to semi-arid thorn and scrub forests. However, the highest densities of the elephant population are found in tropical deciduous forests.

Indian elephants are a subspecies of Asian elephants native to the Indian subcontinent that represent around 60% of all Asian elephants. They are highly intelligent animals with complex social structures that display emotional intelligence.