Elephant facts
Conservation status
Endangered
Endangered
Last updated: 30/05/2024
Last updated: 30/05/2024
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- kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- phylum: Chordata
- class: Mammalia
- order: Proboscidea
- family: Elephantidae
- genus: Loxodonta or Elephas
- species: Africana, cyclotis or maximus
- young: Calf
- group: Herd
- predator:
Humans, and rarely lions, hyenas and crocodiles.
- life span: Dependent on species, up to 80 years in the wild (1)
- size: Dependent on species, up to 4m (13.1ft) from ground to shoulder
- weight: Dependent on species, up to 10.4 tonnes
- locations: Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
- population: 450,000 in the wild, as of December 2022 (2)
- endangered status: Endangered
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African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana) trumpeting and gurgling.
Date recorded: 5th November 1978
Source: BBC Studios NHU
Elephants are comparable in size to some of the biggest animals to have ever walked the Earth, and have the largest brains of any land animal.