Tanzania Elephants

Elephants drink by sucking water up into the trunk and then squirting it into the mouth. They eat by detaching grasses, leaves, and fruit with the tip of the trunk and using it to place this vegetation in the mouth. By means of a small, fingerlike projection on the tip of the trunk-African elephants have two of these extremities and Indian elephants have one-they are able to pick up small objects.

Domesticated Elephants

Either of two species: Elephas maximus, the Indian elephant, and Loxodonta africana, the African elephant (family Elephantidae, order Proboscidea). The African elephant is the largest living land animal (weight 7,500 kg, height 3-4 m). The Indian elephant is smaller (weight 5,500 kg, height 3 m); even its ears are considerably smaller than those of the African elephant.