### animal | vertebrate | mammal | elephant:

Female elephant
* Many female elephants remain within their family group for their entire lives.
* Most female elephants can have babies
  - carry fetuses
* Most female elephants reach maturity
  - sexual maturity
* Some female elephants affect pregnancy
  - have phases
* have babies about three years apart, and they have only one each time
* live in family groups, and adult males live alone or in unstable smaller groups.
* open mouths.
* stay with their mothers in their matriarchal herd for their entire lives.

### animal | vertebrate | mammal | elephant:

Forest elephant
* Most forest elephants eat leaves.
* Most forest elephants feed on fruit
  - tree fruit
  - inhabit regions
* Some forest elephants inhabit basins
  - congo basins
* are a bit smaller
  - browser-frugivores and eat leaves, fruits, seeds, branches, and bark
  - significantly smaller than the savanna forms
  - small, with downward-pointing tusks, as befits life in dense forest
* create clearings that allow sunlight to reach the forest floor.
* live in much smaller family units.
* obtain a significant amount of water from the fruits they eat.

### animal | vertebrate | mammal | elephant:

Indian elephant
* Indian Elephants have smaller ears.
* Most indian elephants have toes.
* Some indian elephants carry trainers.
* eat mainly grass.
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  * These big ears have many 'veins', which carry blood throughout the body. Biologists think that the blood going through their ears helps African elephants to cool off. The weather is hotter in Africa than in Asia, so it is hard for elephants to stay cool. Female African elephants have tusks, but female Asian elephants do not. African elephants have a low place in their back. Indian elephants eat mainly grass.

### animal | vertebrate | mammal | elephant:

Mammoth
* are elephants
  - extinct now
  - grazers and they are among the most common fossils in South Texas
  - guessed to have been herbivores eating mainly grass
  - huge hairy elephants, thought to be extinct
  - located in ancient history
* are located in archeological digs
  - sites
  - bedrock
  - books
  - cave paintings
  - caves
  - drawing
  - encyclopedias
  - excavation
  - fields
  - forests
  - glacial ice
  - ground
  - hell
  - history books
  - ice ages
  - icebergs
  - jungle
  - movies
  - museum exhibits
  - nature
  - pits
  - prehistories
  - storybooks
  - toy stores
  - tundra
  - turkeys
  - zoos
  - placental mammals
  - taller than mastodons, with high skullls
* breed very slow.
* is an elephant
* range across from Europe to northeast Asia.

Older elephant
* have larger tusks of ivory, the principal target of poachers.
* leave a more undefined footprint because of smoother ridges and worn heels.

Savanna elephant
* Most savanna elephants eat grass.
* are larger than forest elephants, and their tusks curve outwards.

Wild elephant
* are numerous on the lower slopes of the Assam range and in the Brahmaputra valley
  - quite rare in Maine, at least in the late summer
* spend most of their time either looking for food or eating it once they find it.

Young elephant
* Most young elephants weigh tons.
* Some young elephants hit puberty.
* follow their mothers or older sisters by holding on to their tails.
* remain with their natal herd even after they've been weaned.

Eutherian
* are born at later stage of development.
* are the most diverse group of mammals
  - widespread of the mammals, occurring throughout the world
* give birth to a fully developed young.