Six Things You Didn't Know About Elephants

[@parkerpshebnisky1051]

They are incredible animals and they deserve our love and respect!🐘❤👍👍

[@IndriidaeNT]

I did know that African elephants are related to mammoths, mastodons, hyraxes, sea cows and aardvarks and have lots of traits in common with them, and that elephants use their trunks as limbs to do things and elephants are good mothers to their calves and use their trumpets to communicate with other members of their herd and live in social families and herds but I didn’t know that tenrecs are closely related to elephants and their trunks are time capsules to tell their life histories and that elephants and humans are good friends. I am learning something new every day.

[@sharonsmith1505]

They don't know themselves. Never heard of such a thing.

[@SameerPrehistorica]

👍Proboscideans are my top favorites. They are iconic.

[@j2fly1]

Ele-fun!

[@Superb_0wl]

🐘 🥰 🤗 😘

[@megafaunaforever]

Find out more about big tusked Asian and African elephants in the book The World As It Once Was.

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[@disneydino7558]

I am going to film a youtube video for my channel in your new elephant 🐘 exhibit with a toy woolly mammoth. It will react to all of the parts of the exhibit. I am just letting you know so that you don't think its weird when you see a 17 year old kid walking around with a mammoth toy recording the exhibit.

[@IndriidaeNT]

Six ideas for traveling exhibits and exhibitions that the American Museum of Natural History should have in the near future: Bats: The Flying Mammals: A traveling exhibit curated by a mammalogist from Bat World Sanctuary in Texas, it focuses all about bats ranging from megabats like flying foxes and fruit bats to microbats like insect-eating bats, nectar-eating bats, vampire bats and meat-eating bats and information about their breeding, lifestyles, traits, lifespans and diversity and feature all these aforementioned bat species as taxidermies or live bats borrowed from Bat World and include hands-on-interactives and VR experiences. Will later get a nature and science reference book based on the exhibit. Lemurs of Madagascar: A traveling exhibit located close to the Hall of Primates curated by primatologist Patrica Wright focusing on lemurs and other prosimians ranging from ring-tailed lemurs, ruffed lemurs and bamboo lemurs and true lemurs from Lemuridae to sifaka lemurs, woolly lemurs and indris from Indriidae and mouse lemurs, dwarf lemurs, sportive lemurs and aye-ayes from Daubentonia, Cheirogalediae and Lepilemur. As well as lorises, bushbabies, pottos and tarsiers. It includes information on the family tree, traits, breeding, lifestyles and behaviors of these lemurs and features diroamas, taxidermies, hands-on-interactives, photos and nature in art of all of them. It might also feature live lemurs and other prosimians borrowed from the Duke Lemur Center and other zoos. Will later get a nature and science reference book based on it. The Hell Creek Formation: A traveling exhibit located in the Glider Center curated by Mark Norell, Danny Barta and Mike Noveack focusing on all the dinosaurs and pterosaurs from the Hell Creek Formation, including the Tyrannosaurs (Tyrannosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Gorgosaurus and Albertosaurus), Ornithominds (Struthomimus and Ornithomimus), Oviraptorosaurs (Anzu and Eoneophron), Dromaeosaurs (Dakotoraptor and Archeoraptor), Titanosaurs (Alasmosaurus), Ceratopisans (Ticeratops, Torosaurus, Styracosaurus and Centrosaurus), Pachycephalosaurs (Stylmolich and Pachycephalosaurus), Anklyosaurs (Anklyosaurus and Euoplocephalus), pterosaurs (Quzetaloatlus and Pteranodo), mammals (Ciomolestes and Didelphodon), and marine reptiles, bony fishes, and sharks (Tylosaurus, Cretoxyrhina, Squalicorax and Xiphactinus) and gives information on their paleontology, lifestyles, breeding, anatomy, paleoart and history on fossil discoveries and features fossils, fossil casts, paleoart murals, dioramas, skeleton crew VR experiences, life-sized models and hands on interactives of them all. African Cats and Hoofed Mammals: An exhibition focusing on the megafuna that lives in Sub-Sahara Africa and cheetahs, caracals, African lions and servals as well as the hoofed mammals and other creatures that existed alongside them like zebras, white rhinos, African elephants, jackals, honey badgers, aardvarks, bat-eared foxes, water buffaloes, hippopotamus, nile crocodiles, olive baboons, geldas, velvet monkeys, pottos, bushbabies, giraffes, Thomson’s gazelles, impalas and oryxes plus bee-eaters and how all these animals connect together to the ecosystem of the African savannas and includes dioarams, taxidermies, paleoart murals and hands-on-interactives and manscirpits on Carl Akeley.

[@sharonsmith1505]

The elephants are not American. The dinosaurs. But they get rid of the indian exhibit. Indian are American. Turtle island.

[@IndriidaeNT]

Aztec, Inca and Maya plus Biodiversity or The Great Barrier Reef and Pacific Islanders: These traveling exhibits will either focus on Pre-Columbian cultures like the Maya civilization, Aztec empire and Inca empire as well as native tribes like the Yanomai from the Amazon rainforest and Moche, Nazca, Chimu, Olmecs and Toltecs and feature dioramas, wax sculptures, artifacts and artworks from these ancient cultures and information on their anthropology and archaeology as well as another section focusing on the animal species that lived alongside these cultures ranging from macaws, tocuans, new world monkeys, Mexican free-tailed, vampire and spectral bats, ocelots, jaguars, capybaras, tapirs, caimans, green anacondas, posion dart frogs and three-toed sloths from the tropical rainforests of Central and South America as well as llamas and lesser rheas and dioramas, taxidermies and natural history information regarding them and The Great Barrier Reef focuses on the coral reef with the same name off the Pacific Coast of Queensland and have information on all the animals that live there and a backup section about information on the Pacific Islanders and native tribes who lived in Australia and Papua New Guinea and many offshore islands in French Polynesia.

[@WCove99]

They are such a wonderful example of God's creatures. So cute and brilliant.

[@tomsmith4542]

It's made by evolution. not God. Deities do not exist.

[@IndriidaeNT]

Did you know? The Closest relatives of elephants are aardvarks, sea cows/manatees and hyraxes and they have lots of traits in common with elephants.

[@IndriidaeNT]

Foxes, Wolves, and Lynxes: Nature's Warriors is a traveling exhibit focusing on the red foxes, silver foxes, northwestern wolves, coyotes, Canada lynxes and bobcats living in North America as well as all the animals living alongside them like pronghorn, American bison, racoons, rabbits, white-tailed deer, striped skunks, blue jays, cardinals, monarch butterflies, owls, woodpeckers, American robins, black bears and caribou with dioramas, taxidermies, nature in art and live members and nature documentary clips of all these species and information on their breeding lifestyles, social lives, hunting skills and social structures, diets, lifespans and ranges and biology.