{"id":24,"date":"2013-07-13T00:52:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T00:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/?p=24"},"modified":"2013-07-13T00:52:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T00:52:50","slug":"elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/2013\/07\/13\/elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are numerous subspecies of the\u00a0Asian elephant, these are the\u00a0Indian\u00a0Elephant, Sri Lankan Elephant, Sumatran, Borneo Elephant.<\/p>\n

African elephants are larger than\u00a0Asian elephants\u00a0and have two subspecies which are the African Bush Elephant and African Forest Elephant.<\/p>\n

The elephant is the only known\u00a0mammal\u00a0that, despite having knee joints, cannot jump! This is thought to be primarily due to the elephants sheer size but also because of the way that the elephants legs are built, they are short and stocky to support the elephants phenomenal weight.<\/p>\n

Elephants are\u00a0herbivores\u00a0that spend around 22 hours eating! The elephant searches for green leaves in the tree tops but it is not uncommon for the elephant to tear down the tree to get the leaves.<\/p>\n

One old elephant related myth is that elephants are afraid of mice. There are a number of theories from where this arose such as the size difference (elephants are one of the biggest land\u00a0animals, mice are one of the smallest), the fear from the elephant that a\u00a0mouse\u00a0could crawl into the elephants trunk and nest, and the fact that mice have been known to crawl over elephants while they are sleeping so they can get to any left over food, are also viable possibilities. Whether or not elephants are actually scared of mice is unknown, however tests show that elephants are definitely not as comfortable with mice around as you might expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are numerous subspecies of the\u00a0Asian elephant, these are the\u00a0Indian\u00a0Elephant, Sri Lankan Elephant, Sumatran, Borneo Elephant. African elephants are larger than\u00a0Asian elephants\u00a0and have two subspecies which are the African Bush Elephant and African Forest Elephant. The elephant is the only known\u00a0mammal\u00a0that, despite having knee joints, cannot jump! This is thought to be primarily due to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[833476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}