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Are the elephants bulls, cows, or a mixture? African elephants exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism. Female Loxodonta africana mass between 1 and 1.5 tonnes and ma
by bregma 6y ago
Are the elephants bulls, cows, or a mixture? African elephants exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism. Female Loxodonta africana mass between 1 and 1.5 tonnes and males between 2 and 3 tonnes. 640 "African elephants" is somewhere between 2.6x10^6 kg and 3.8x10^6 kg depending on the sex mixture of the herd, a range of 6000 tonnes. That's the equivalent mass of over 30 American football fields filled with pickup trucks. Hardly negligible.
- saagarjha 6y ago> African elephants exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism. For a mammal, maybe. For the rest of Animalia that’s not extreme at all.
- alexvoda 6y agoThey are, of course, using the standard African Elephant as a measure, the same way you are using the standard pickup truck as a measure. And of course if you ever talk about bovines you will have to use the standard spherical cow as a measure.
- bregma 6y agoI based my allegory on the fact that an F-150 without truckticles is the same size as one that sports them. As for the spherical cow, is that a metric sphere or a US customary sphere?