Elephants - the family uniting the largest and strong of recent land mammals. These are high thick-skinned animals of tropical areas of Asia and Africa. Elephants share on two sorts - the Indian elephants and the African elephants. At elephants massive head and trunk, long trunk, large fanlike ears and tusks. The deprived of bones, brawny trunk of elephants are an accrete and strongly extended upper lip and a nose. It is considered to be an elephant a clever animal though his brain, let and large by the absolute sizes, it is disproportionate it is small in comparison with enormous body weight. These animals eat young escapes of bushes and trees, and also tubers and even bark of trees. For maintenance of normal weight and force the animal needs to receive about 250 kg of a forage and 190 l of water in day. There live elephants in packs which consist of one-four families and unite under the leadership of one of females of 30-50 individuals, including a great number of elephant calves. Life expectancy of elephants under favorable conditions can reach 60 years.
