Elephants are the largest living mammals known to be living on the face of the earth, there are only three species of elephants living up to this day known as the Asian elephant(also referred to as the Indian elephant),The African forest elephant and the African bush Elephant. The other species have since gone into extinction since the ice-age that rocked the earth last, although it is believed that some of the dwarf forms of the mammoth an species of also the Elephantidae family which contains also the elephants may have survived to as late as 2,000 BCE

Not only are the elephant the largest mammals but they are also known to have the longest period of carrying their young one in their wombs this period of time that is usually referred to as the gestation period is 9 months for a human being but for an elephant as shown on one of the elephants mating video on the internet it has a 22 months gestation period. This is the longest gestation period for any living mammal on the earth.

The elephants mating video has so much to learn from, from the birth life and also the passing of life to offspring's. At birth the average elephant young one weighs 120kilogrammes equivalents to 260lbs the weight of more than 45 new born human babies. The elephants attain puberty at the ages of between 13 years and 14 years. The adult elephant lives for between 50 to 70 years of age. The oldest and heaviest ever elephant was killed by shooting in Angola the year 1956,the male elephant weighed 11,000 kilograms and had lived for 82 years.

One of the most distinct features of an elephant is the trunk, the trunk is a combination of the elephant's nose and its upper lip specialized and also the most essential body part of the Elephant. The trunk is highly sensitive and can pick even a blade of grass but it's also so strong to take down an entire tree branch. The trunk contains more than 100,000 muscle units and sometimes gets heavy for the elephant that is why it is usual and normal to see an elephant resting its trunk on the tusks

The elephant's tusks are a specialization off its upper second incisors. The same way the other animal's teeth grow is the same way the elephant's tasks also continually grow at a rate of up to 7 inches an year. The task is used by the animals for many tasks e.g. digging for water and debarking barks while eating