The cow is 8 feet tall and weighs about 3.3 short tons. The largest Asiatic bull measured 10 feet 8 inches tall. The elephant's tusks are long, curved teeth. They are made of ivory. The African bull can grow tusks 6 to 8 feet long.
Elephants have small eyes and a short neck.
Elephants thick skin is gray and wrinkled. The African elephant has dark gray skin and the Asiatic elephant has light gray skin. Elephants are the only animal that have a trunk for a nose. The trunk is a combined nose and upper lip. It has no bones.