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Hace 2 días · Bibliography. Further reading. External links. Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), the African forest elephant ( L. cyclotis ), and the Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ).
Hace 3 días · Bohr received numerous honours and accolades. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he received the Hughes Medal in 1921, the Matteucci Medal in 1923, the Franklin Medal in 1926, the Copley Medal in 1938, the Order of the Elephant in 1947, the Atoms for Peace Award in 1957 and the Sonning Prize in 1961.
Hace 2 días · The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south. Three subspecies are recognised—E. m. maximus, E. m. indicus and E. m ...
21 de may. de 2024 · Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous mammals, belonging to the mammal order of Proboscidea, collectively called elephants and mammoths first described by John Edward Gray in 1821. The word elephant derives from the Greek word Elephas, with a non-Indo-European language lineage, likely Phoenician, and while Homer (Homerus ...
7 de may. de 2024 · Elephant derived from the Latin elephantus and from Greek elephant- or elephas meaning "elephant, ivory" (perhaps of Hamitic origin) (Gove 1971) Order Proboscidea (Shoshani and Shoshani 2000) From proboscis, referring to the elephant's prominent trunk; Pro, meaning “before” (Greek) –boscis, meaning “mouth” (Greek)
Hace 2 días · Mastodon. A mastodon ( mastós 'breast' + odoús 'tooth') is a member of the genus Mammut (German for "mammoth"), which strictly defined, was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene. Mastodons belong to the order Proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths (which belong to the family Elephantidae ).
Hace 2 días · An elephant–headed anthropomorphic figure on Indo-Greek coins from the 1st century BCE has been proposed by some scholars to be "incipient Ganesha", but this has been strongly contested. Others have suggested Ganesha may have been an emerging deity in India and southeast Asia around the 2nd century CE based on the evidence from archaeological excavations in Mathura and outside India. [159]
