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African Elephant Cow and Calf
Forest elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the Mbeli River, Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Congo. African elephants have large ears than asian elephants.
Reproductive Facts
- The average gestation age for elephants is 660 days.
- An infant elephant is called a calf and a newborn can weigh 90 to 120 kilograms (198 to 264 pounds).
- The calf suckles milk from its mother taking up to 12 litres each day.
- Adult male elephant is called a bull and can weigh up to 6,800 kilograms (15,000 pounds).
- Adult female elephant is called a cow and can weigh up to 3,600 kilograms (8,000 pounds).
Reference
<pubmed>20076667</pubmed>| PLoS Biol.
Copyright
© 2007 Public Library of Science. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Image: Thomas Breuer
Journal.pbio.0050115.g001.jpg Original image size adjusted and labeled with PMID 20076667.
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