Which type of elephant is in the picture?

Folks, I am Kenyan and we have two types of elephants. The ones by Mt Kenya where I was born, are large and red because of the soil. The ones by Mt. Kilimanjaro are grey, because of the soil and are smaller. Another fact, African elephants have tusks for both males and females. Yes, the African elephant's ears are shaped like the continent of Africa, and yes, they are fierce and very difficult to tame or train, as such; you will see 'domesticated' elephants in Asia and zoos but very rarely, an African one. Please help save this majestic mammal. Tell Asia, especially China not to buy tusks.

Nina Kamwene you are 100% right about the horrific ivory trade. What makes it worse - well at least here in South Africa - is that some of the poaching gangs are being aided etc by the very people there to ensure the elephants are not poached - game park rangers. It's similar with the rhinos. I actually wonder if by the time my grandchildren are grown up and in their 20s whether there will be any wild rhino left

Nina Kamwene. That you very much for the info. Greatly appreciated!

Great comment by Nina. As an African also, I share her grave concern over the poaching of elephant, rhino and the pangolin, all to satisfy the irrational superstitions of certain Eastern cultures. Japan's thinly-disguised hunting of whales is another shocking example. Elephant have destructive eating habits, ranging over wide areas, tearing down trees to eat just a small part & them moving on to the next, so they need a large area to support a herd. This brings them into increasing conflict with humans as the two habitats encroach on each other. Botswana has just announced its intention to revive commercial hunting and even culling of its national herd of 130,000 elephant, about a third of the total in Africa. So not only poaching but just human population growth pose threats to this beautiful and intelligent species, as well as to others.

We humans need to be more considerate of this earth. We need to learn to live in harmony with all Gods creatures and stop the killing.

Thank you Nina for your very informative narrative! I too am very sad that certain animals may become extinct Way

Very well said, Nina Kamwene,

Actually, it is the opposite. It is clearly an Asian Elephant BECAUSE of the bumps on top of it's head.

African elephants have larger ears to fan themselves.

Nina Kamwene. Thank you.

At least it was an elephant!!!

Claire Mitchell, that makes two of us.

Being South African, I had to know this!

Linda Spreng, But there do and don't care what happens to the baby, Chinese just for Ivory. sickening

Nina Kamwene, You'd be lucky to tell China not to buy tusks, that is one country that will ignore whatever and do what it likes and if you don't agree will threaten you. But if China and the asian countries would stop paying thousands of dollars for an oversided fingernails, as that's what they are then you might get the chance to save the elephants, but until then Chinese government will do nothing to stop it.

Another fact that you can tell the difference between African and Asian (Indian) elephants is the size of their ears. African elephants have ears that are very large almost three times larger. We need to put a ban on tusks from Africa like it happened before the recent government stopped the ban because they could see the profit of taxing elephant tusks.

Thank you. I got the answer right. A full and interesting explaination of the two sub sources of African elephants, Savannah and Forest and the four subspieces of Indian elephants Sumatran , Borneo ,Indian and Shri Lankan and Sumatran.

Read "The Elephant Whisperer". Such a wonderful true story of a man (Lawrence Anthony) who saved a herd in kwaZuluNatal, South Africa. He also saved many zoo animals in the middle east from death by starvation when one of the many wars there threatened just such a thing.

Nina Kamwene, The Chinese and I don't see eye-to-eye over this very subject.

That elephant's ear in that picture sure looked like the African continent to me. D'oh.🙄🙄🙄😑😑😑 Nothing like starting a quiz with a wrong answer.

Know your Asian Elephant by its tiny, tiny ears.

Nina Kamwene, Thank you for a wonderful comment. These creatures must be saved from man(un)kind. Until the ivory trade got out of hand, it never occurred to me that anybody would kill an animal for ivory. Besides, anyone who has ever seen a baby elephant would be heartless to take its mom or dad from them.

Johnny Gio, therefore you are an elephant,,,,,,Rita.Flaherty

Missed it, and should have known it!!

MY EARS ARE SHAPED LIKE THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA..