Elephants (Elephantclassae) - a family that combines the largest and strongest of the living land mammals. This high pachyderm tropical regions of Asia and Africa, which eat young shoots of trees and shrubs. The elephants are divided into two classes - Indian elephants and African elephants.
The most amazing thing in elephants - trunk. It was formed from the union of the nose and upper lip, and consists of 40 thousand muscles, but the inside does not contain a single seed. The trunk serves as a tool for obtaining food, not only for the elephant's trunk needed. It can be used as a powerful weapon, but they do it very carefully, because without it, the Giants can not exist. Adult elephants drink with trunk. They suck in a half bucket of water and sent to the mouth or poured over the body. Power trunk is enormous. Elephant safely lift them up to a ton timber weight and carries him through the jungle. At the tip of the trunk in the African elephant has two finger-appendage, and the Indian - one.
Elephants are extremely fond of their home, and if they are taken to a foreign country, they never forget their homes, so sigh and yearn for the country, not just the tears and suffering of losing his mind and die.