Elephant
Appearance
Elephant | |
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A female African bush elephant in Mikumi Naitional Pairk, Tanzanie | |
Scienteefic clessification![]() | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Faimily: | Elephantidae |
Subfaimily: | Elephantinae |
Groups included | |
Cladeestically includit but tradeetionally excludit taxa | |
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The elephant is a muckle laund mammal o the order Proboscidea an the faimlie Elephantidae. Thare are twa bidin spece: the African bush an the Asie elephant (cried the Indie elephant an aw). Ither spece hae become extinct langsyne the last ice age, the mammoths bein the maist kenspeckle o thaim. Thay war ance clessifee'd alang wi ither thick skinned ainimals in a nou invalid order, Pachydermata.
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