What Colors are Elephants?
Elephant’s natural color is grey but there are variations in its color according to the soil where they live. These belong to mammalian family that is Elephantidae. These are the largest animals on the land. It has three various species that are:
o African Bush Elephant
o The African Forest Elephant
o The Asian Elephant
It has its many members which have gone extinct. These species include:
o The Mastodons
o The Mammoths
o The straight tusked elephants.
African Bush Elephant:
These have the characteristics that they are having larger ears and concave backs. These are also known as “African Savanna Elephant”. These are the largest terrestrial animals having bulls to the shoulders with the height of 3.9 m and body weight is of 10.4.
It is of the color greyish black and belongs to Kingdom Animalia.
African Forest Elephants:
It is one of the two living species in Africa. It lives in the forests of humidity. Its habitat is basically in Congo Basin and West Africa. It is smallest of all other species of Elephants. It has height of about 2.4 m. Its weight is 2700 kg and is highly classified as African Elephant. It lies in Herbivores in the trophic levels. It is of various colors such that it has grey skin which appears from yellowish to reddish brown after wallowing. It has coarse black nails.
The Asian Elephants:
Asian Elephants are also known as Asiatic Elephants. These are only left species of Genus Elephas and its distribution is throughout Indian subcontinent and South-east Asia, from the west of India to the North of Nepal, from South Somatra to East Borneo. It is referred as Endangered specie and its weight is about 4000 kg for male and 2700 kg for female. They have various colors such that they are grey but some body parts are de-pigmented such as ears, forehead and trunk etc. It is because of nutrition, genetics and the effect of habitat where they live. Young elephants have brownish to reddish hairs all over the body.
Various colors of Elephants:
Elephants are of various colors. These are:
Red
Red and Blue
Spotted and Striped polka dotted
Gleam in Brass
In Burnished Wood
And pop out of wall in 3-dimentional glee.
The dusky soil of Tsavo is naturally of this color. It is referred as “■■■”. It was first identified in January, 1991. It was founded in Bai during the driest season. This color is all because of bathing in the clays of these colors. Many elephants have their baths in yellow and punk clay but ■■■ always go for red color. So, that’s why it is observed as crimson.
Similarly, some elephants reflected themselves as blue, green, in stripped form and also in the dots form. It is because of the land where they live and the color of soil. Sometimes, these become more appealing to us because of the fact that they get artificial colors by their caretakers in the parks and zoos.
Some elephants turned into green color because of the algae in the water in which elephants roll to get dissipated their own heat and to avoid from the scorching heat. Some are pigmented and have their bodies of two colors. It is because sometimes they lose their original color from various body parts and the area become light in color which shows pigmentation and duo colorization.
Conclusion:
Elephants are now not only in greyish black color bur are of various colors from yellowish brown to green and pink. It is because of the diet, genetics and the habitat where they are living. It is because of the soil in which they roll themselves in order to escape heat. Elite class of elephants are Asian Elephants and African Elephants. These are going to be extinct and are referred as endangered because of natural as well as anthropogenic activities.