By: LM
Kingdom |Phylum | Class | Order| Family | Genus and Species
Fun Facts| Art and Poetry | Works Cited
Kingdom: Animalia
a multicellular animal
Capable of complex rapid movement
cells organized into tissues
lack cell walls in cells
Phylum: Chordata
Has a bone called a notochord that extends through out most of the body and supports the animal.
A complete digestive system
Bilateral symmetry
Ventral heart
Hollow nerve cord
Three germ layers
Class: Mamalia
Has hair
Three ear bones
Can hear sounds
Mammary glands
Feed their new born young with milk
Differentiated teeth replaced once in a life time
Order: Proboscidea
Seems to increase in size over time
Skull is short and high
Early Proboscideans lacked trunks and tusks
Long muscular trunk.
Males have a pair of huge tusks
Elephants' cheek teeth adapt to modern African elephants.
Family: Elephantidea
Genius: Loxodanta
Species: Loxodanta Africana
The largest elephant weighed 9000 kg
They can live from 60 to 70 years
Elephants have excellent smell but poor eye sight and hearing
Communicate vocally and by stomping on the ground.
The difference between an African elephant and an Asian elephant is and African elephant has large ears (shaped like Africa) and an Asian elephant has bumps above his eyes and smaller ears.
An elephants ear can weigh up to 110 pounds!
Elephants can weigh up to 1300 pounds and stand up to 11 feet tall.
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Animal Information
Animal Picture
Cammfeid, Alaine, George Hammond, and Nancy Shefferly.
Animal Diversity
web. University of Michigan of Museum of Zoology.
<http://http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/mzm/loxodonta_af
ricana_125.jpg/view.html>.
