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Loxodonta africana
Spotted at Colchester Zoo.
Actually I thought its young Asian elephant due to Reddish look of its skin...!!Elsa cleared my wrong doubt.
Thank you for the info Ashish and Elsa I will update :0)
Yes its ears matches to African only....Tuskers also smaller than Asian..!!
Thank you Elsa... I checked it out and you are right... I went here to check http://www.colchester-zoo.co.uk/index.cf...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
This is an African elephant :)
That's what I thought Ashish because of the smaller ears but it was in the "spirit of Africa" section of the zoo so I don't know :)
Asian Elephant
Spotted on Dec 18, 2008 Submitted on Aug 7, 2011
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Actually I thought its young Asian elephant due to Reddish look of its skin...!!
Elsa cleared my wrong doubt.
Thank you for the info Ashish and Elsa I will update :0)
Loxodonta africana
Yes its ears matches to African only....Tuskers also smaller than Asian..!!
Thank you Elsa... I checked it out and you are right... I went here to check http://www.colchester-zoo.co.uk/index.cf...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
This is an African elephant :)
That's what I thought Ashish because of the smaller ears but it was in the "spirit of Africa" section of the zoo so I don't know :)
Asian Elephant