African Elephant

The African elephant (specifically an African bush elephant) is part of a yearly exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. Several of them can be found along other animals in the Hall of African Mammals. A male African elephant is featured throughout Night at the Museum and makes a few appearances in its sequels. 
==Description==
1 species of African elephant, the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), is the largest living terrestrial animal and land mamal, while the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is the 3rd largest. Their thickset bodies rest on stocky legs, and they have concave backs. Their large ears enable heat loss. The upper lip and nose form a trunk. The trunk acts as a 5th limb, a sound amplifier, and an important method of touch. African elephant trunks end in 2 opposing lips, whereas the Asian elephant trunk ends in a single lip. In African bush elephants, males stand 3.2–4.0 m (10–13 ft) tall at the shoulder and weigh 4,700–6,048 kg (10,360–13,330 lb), while females stand 2.2–2.6 m (7–9 ft) tall and weigh 2,160–3,232 kg (4,762–7,125 lb); African forest elephants are smaller with male shoulder heights of up to 2.5 m (8 ft). The largest recorded individual stood four metres (13.1 ft) at the shoulders and weighed 10 tonnes (10 long tons; 11 short tons).
==Role==
===Night at the Museum===
The stuffed body of the African elephant is part It was displayed behind rope lines to the between the left of a cabinet holding several African artifacts and the right of a pair of zebras that were among the animals on the base behind the one of the lions. 
Larry Daley first saw it when Cecil Fredericks showed him around the Hall of African Mammals for the 1st time during his tour. 
On his first night, Larry encountered the African elephant along with the rest of the African animals when he was following the instructions on the Manual to lock up the lions.
When Dexter the capuchin monkey somehow managed to steal Larry's keys again on the 2nd night, it and all the exhibit's animals stampeded down the stairs, though this helped Larry avoid being stretched apart by Attila and the Huns for his failed magic act by driving them off. The elephant's trumpeting got Attila's attention of their presence and it was the first animal to show up before the others ran in front of it. 
The African elephant was later seen wandering through the lobby when the other exhibits were fighting. It trumpeted when the Easter Island Head got their attention to Larry with an long scream only for Larry to say "Thank You." to him. It eventually went outside the museum with several other exhibits until Ahkmenrah used his tablet to call them all back. 
==Trivia==
* In the real life version of the Museum of Natural History, a herd of 8 African elephants (both male and female) are featured and displayed in the center of the Akeley Hall of African Mammals (the real life version of the Hall of African Mammals). However, only 1 male African elephant appears in Night at the Museum.
== More Info ==
Elephants are the largest existing land animals. They are one of the smartest animals on the planet too. It’s relative, the Woolly Mammoth both took a stare down as the man tried to lock it from the mammoth, both of the proboscideans trumpeted and roared, making them so close to each other that they both just stared the man in the eye,
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