African Elephant vs. Asian Elephant: Ears and Trunk One of the easiest ways to tell the difference between an African ...

An African elephant’s trunk is very different from an Asian elephant’s trunk. The African elephant’s trunk has two distinct lips that are used for grabbing and holding things, while an Asian ...

How Asian and African elephant differs. Scientific classification. Elephants belong to the family Elephantidae and are the largest land mammals. There are two main species: the Asian elephant and ...

African elephants have thicker whiskers than Asian elephants and African elephants have approximately 1.7 times more whiskers than Asian elephants on their trunk tips.

An Asian elephant learned to peel her own bananas with her trunk — and may have figured it out after watching her caretaker do it for her.

An Asian elephant has one “finger” at the trunk’s tip, so it will pick up an object by wrapping the entire trunk around it. African savanna elephants, on the other hand, have two of these ...

Asian elephants differ from African elephants in several ways. They are not quite as big as their African cousins, and have proportionally smaller ears. Asian elephants are generally dark grey to ...

Also, the noted weight of an African elephant can range between 4,000 to 8,000 kilograms, and that of Asian elephants lies between 3,000 and 6,000 kilograms.

Despite decades of research into African elephants, much research into Asian elephants has lagged behind—which is why our feature, “The Elephant Next Door,” will focus on this species.

05/20/2025 12:35 Asian elephants have larger brains than their African relatives Jan Zwilling Wissenschaftskommunikation Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW) im Forschungsverbund ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...