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India El Genetic Diversity in North American Captive Asian Elephants R.Lei, Grewcock Center for Conservation and Research R.A.Brenneman, Grewcock Center for Conservation and Research D.L.Schmitt, Grewcock Center for Conservation and Research E.E.Louis Jr., Grewcock Center for Conservation Research http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00851.x/full For about twenty eight years now the Asian elephant has been struggling for existence. They have been classified

Lucy’s life as she knew it ended in 1977, when she was only two years old (Kearney, 2015). That is when she was inhumanely ripped away from her loved ones and her home in Sri Lanka (Iyer, 2016), and sold into a life of entertainment (Iyer, 2016). Now Lucy spends her days locked up in a cage (Doyle, 2011), the same cage she has called home for thirty-seven years and counting (Kearney, 2015). Her captors feed her on a schedule. Except for when it’s time for a meal, Lucy spends most of her time in isolation

Name : _____Ashley Vernet_______ Chapter 17: Life on Earth Activity designed by Kathleen Rudolph Taxa to explore – Elephants!! 1. Review terms (write definitions for these terms) Extant Species, families, or groups still in existence Extinct Species, families, or groups no longer in existence, end or died out Genotype Genetic make-up of an organism Phenotype Physical attributes of an organism, observable or measurable traits Synapomorphy Shared characteristic that are inherited

use to dig for food. Female elephants (cows) live in family herds with their young ones, but adult males (bulls) tend to roam on their own. Also they usually are ten to fifth teen elephants in one group. The genus name if the African elephant is Elephantidae. The African Elephants resembles a gray, strong rock. The average elephants weights up to 10,000 pounds and can get to 12 feet tall. They also have enlarged incisor teeth made of ivory. Elephants have four very strong legs with thick, tough

Canine Distemper By Jessi Palmer Species affected: Canidae (dog, wolf, fox) Mustelidae (ferret, mink, badger, otter) Procyonidae (raccoon) Ailuridae (red panda) Ursidae (bear) Elephantidae (Asian elephant) Primates (Japanese monkey) Large Felidae (Cheetah, cougar) Causative agent: paramyxovirus Canine Distemper Virus Closely related to human measles Symptoms: Pansystemic Temporary fever (3-6 days post infection) Leukopenia ( lymphopenia) Nasal discharge Hyperkeratosis of nose and pads GI and

in the past. In the scientific classifications the elephant is known as Animalia in the kingdom. For the phylum they’re known as Chordata, subphylum as Vertebrata, class as Mammalia, superorder as Afrotheria, order as Proboscidea, and family as Elephantidae (Wikipedia, 2017). Something that we do know is that the African elephant and the woolly mammoth share about 95.5% of their mitochondrial DNA.

years ago when the population started to decline and finally disappear roughly 4000 years ago. The mammoth’s bones and frozen body was preserved by ice very well, in fact, there are a few carcasses that did not fully decay. Mammoths’ are in the Elephantidae (elephant) family and are part of the mammalian class. The word mammoth implies that this nonhuman species is huge; their tusks alone can be over thirteen and a half feet long. These tusks are much longer than their elephant relatives. The tusks

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. Three species are currently recognized. These three species are the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. All elephants have the same distinctive features which are long trunks, sharp tusks, large ear flaps, and pillar-like legs, but most people don’t notice the differences between them. Although the Asian and African elephants are very similar, they have very distinctive differences

humans. The Sumatran elephant’s scientific name is Elephas Maximus Sumatranus, and it is a subspecies of the Asian Elephant. The Sumatran elephant is in the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Chordata, the class Mammalia, the order Proboscidea, the family Elephantidae, the genus Elephas, and the species Elephas Maximus. At 6,500 to 11,000 pounds, the Sumatran elephant is a truly massive creature. Even young elephants can weigh up to 1 ton (2,000 pounds). The females, called cows, are smaller than the males

characteristics, and a Herculean appetite––the African elephant. African elephants, the massive, wrinkled, grey mammals harboring coveted tusks, and lengthy trunks, are found in kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Proboscidea, family Elephantidae, genus Loxodanta, and the species Loxodanta africana.1 Male African elephants are referred to as bulls, females are known as cows,