African Elephants
The closest living relatives to the elephant are the... (select three)
Hyrax
Tamir
Anteater
Manatee
Pig
Dugong
Which word defines the order of the African elephant and denotes a trunk?
Probasco
Proboscidea
Hyrax
Moeritheres
An elephant's tusks stop growing...
After childhood
When the animal reaches maturity
When the animal reaches old age
Never
Elephants are born with tusks, and...
These tusks continue to grow and become the permanent tusks
These tusks are extremely fragile and break easily
These tusks are just "milk teeth," and fall out after a year
Elephants are not born with tusks
An elephant's tusks are used for... (select all that apply)
Digging
Hunting
Stripping bark from trees
Foraging
Resting the trunk
As a weapon
An elephant's trunk contains a combination of bones and muscle that contribute to its immense strength and flexibility.
True
False
An elephant's trunk is similar to a human arm in what way?
The incredible similarity of the structure of the trunk to a human arm
The presence of finger-like structures at the tip of the trunk
A wrist-like joint at the end of the trunk that provides added flexibility
The perpendicular, parallel, and helical arrangement of muscle
The most important function of the ears is to...
Listen
Balance the animal
Cool the animal
Scare away predators
Select the African elephant (remember to look for ear shape)
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An elephant's ears cool its body temperature by...
Channeling cool air into the inner ear cavity
Containing many tiny wrinkles to increase surface area
Being a lighter shade of gray than the rest of the body, which decreases heat absorption
Containing a large amount of veins and capillaries, allowing blood is cooled by the breeze
Under normal conditions, how wide is an elephant's range of hearing?
10 square kilometers
20 square kilometers
50 square kilometers
100 square kilometers
Elephants are thought to have evolved from palaeomastodons, whose tusks were...
Located on both the top and bottom of mouth, short, and bottom tusks were flat
Located only on top, short and pointy
Located only on bottom, long and flat
Nonexistent
Elephants' trunks are advantageous in the evolutionary sense that...
They allow the animal to reach higher or lower food sources
They are useful for picking things up
They can be used a snorkel when underwater
They can be used to hold or spray water
The greatest evolutionary advantage provided by an elephant's excellent hearing is ease of...
Hunting
Foraging
Nighttime travelling
Mating
An elephant's ear size seems to be directly correlated to...
The food it eats
The climate it lives in
The size of its herd
Its age
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