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We have taken a look at elephants in the past, however, we focused on their interesting behaviours such as grief and altruism. Today, I want to help Hailey’s little brother with his project on elephants, so we are going to look at some of the unique physical features of these gentle giants.\u00a0 There are two types of elephants in this world, African and Asian.\u00a0 I would like to focus today’s fact on the larger and in my opinion the more popular African Elephant. The African elephant is the largest known land mammal and can be found in Central and Southern <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[783,348,226,784,59,785,786,4025],"yoast_head":"\n
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