What is African elephant?
{{Taxobox | name = African elephant | image =African elephant.jpg | image_width = 270px | image_caption = African elephant (''Loxodonta africana'') in [[Tanzania]] | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Proboscidea]] | familia = [[Elephantidae]] | genus = '''''Loxodonta''''' | genus_authority = Anonymous, 1827 | range_map = African Elephant distribution map without borders.svg | range_map_caption = {{legend|#008000|&nbsp;Range of African elephants (2007)}} }} The '''African elephant''' are the two species of [[elephant]] in the [[genus]] '''''Loxodonta'''''. This is one of the two living genera in [[Elephantidae]]. It is the biggest [[terrestrial animal]]. Female elephants travel in herds and male elephants travel alone and sometimes in bachelor groups. [[Fossil]] ''Loxodonta'' have only been found in [[Africa]], where they developed in the middle [[Pliocene]]. African elephants are very intelligent. Males of the [[African bush elephant]] can grow to {{convert|3.64|m}} tall at the shoulder and weigh {{convert|5455|kg}}. It is the largest living elephant. Females may reach {{convert|3|m}} and weigh {{convert|3636|kg}} to {{convert|4545|kg}}.<ref>Laurson, Barry & Bekoff, Marc 1978. Loxodonta africana. ''Mammalian Species'' '''92''': 1–8. [http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-092-01-0001.pdf]</ref> African elephants are different from Asian elephants. They have larger [[Ear|ears]], long, pillar-like legs, a dipped down back, and a fourth toenail on front, and third on the back. African elephants are bigger than Asian elephants. They skin of African elephant is wrinkled, gray, and thick. == Teeth == At any one time, elephants have one molar in each jaw bone (two upper, two lower). Each weighs about {{convert|5|kg}} and measures about {{convert|25|cm}} long. As they wear away at the front, new molars emerge in the back of the mouth and gradually replace the old ones.<ref>Burnie D. 2001. ''Animal''. London: Dorling Kind