Directory of Elephants Resources

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Elephants are smart creatures and they have the largest brain of any land animal, and three times as many neurons as humans.

Subcategories

• African
• Asian

Resources in This Category

• Association of Zoos & Aquariums: Elephants are Amazing!

  http://www.elephanttag.org/General/general_home.html
  Find out about its characteristics, reproductive cycles, images of elephant birth, and distribution map of populations.

• Bagheera: Elephant

  http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild/van_anim_elephant.htm
  Explains why the African and Asian elephant population are in danger and tells what people are doing to help.

• Earth's Kids: Elephants

  http://www.earthskids.com/ek-elephants.aspx
  Basic facts about elephants and their life cycle, with photographs and interesting links.

• Elefunteria

  http://www.himandus.net/elephanteria/
  Offers visitor information and reasons for celebrating Elephant Appreciation Day. An entire section devoted to topics of interest to kids, with galleries of photos and humor.

• Elephant Kids Club

  http://www.elephanttag.org/Kids_Pages/elephants&kids_home.html
  Learn about one of the world's largest animal, their appearance, family groups, habitat, ways you can help them, listen to elephant sounds, recommended books to read, and printable games.

• Making Elephant Tracks

  http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/elephants/
  Information on elephants such as, habitat, eating habits, family units and herds, and calves.

• San Diego Zoo: Elephant

  http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/elephant
  Contains scientific classification, facts, differences between African and Asian elephants, pictures, and live webcam.

• The Elephant Listening Project

  http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/
  A project which assesses the potential of acoustic monitoring for evaluating the abundance and health of elephants living in the dense forest. Videos, pictures, and audio files to hear elephant's language.

• The Elephant Sanctuary

  http://www.elephants.com/
  Dedicated to everything about elephants, with pictures, videos, and elephant biographies.

• World Wildlife Fund: Elephants

  http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/elephant
  Overview of African and Asian elephants with photos and videos, why they matter, and what the threats against them are.

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