How Big Do African Elephants Get? 

What were the tusk weights of the Angola elephant? Apparently tuskless males do rarely exist, known as Buda's in the early hunting days by some. They were supposed to be larger than normal, the suggestion being the energy growing tusks was diverted to body size. And to be more bad tempered. They had a ball of ivory where the tusk roots lie in the skull. And somewhere in one of those balls of Ivory, one might find the fabled Elephant Stone the legend went.

Sad about Jumbo, Satao and Henry 😭

See that's why I clicked it and as soon as I saw it I skipped it and read the comments

More aptly Colombian mammoth sized African elephant.

@@jointcerulean3350 yeah bigger than their wooly counterparts it’s super cool to see these African behemoths reach the size of their columbian mammoth relatives

@@Guys_its_me_Chris Indeed, pretty awesome, wonder how many of those giants are in the wild? also it’s pretty cool Africa has two distinct elephant species, the African forest elephant looks like Palaeoloxodon, especially with the tusks.

He even would have been larger most non-sauropod dinosaurs.

@@jointcerulean3350 mini paleoloxodon’s running in the forests of Africa is a cute thought

There are some conservationists who dye the tusks of elephants with natural dyes to make the ivory worthless. It is something that needs to be more widespread.

The appeal probably exists in saying you defeated something absolutely humongous in size, although I think that status has been washed down over the years from impressive to nothing. I know someone who said that when they were younger they always wanted to hunt the Big Five of Africa, however they later realized that its not really all its cracked up to be. Like I said to them, back in the years of black powder rifles that took anywhere from 20 seconds to a minute to reload it'd be an impressive feat, however modern firearms are far more advanced and you can easily kill stuff from far away with them and have way better accuracy.

@@CalvinTheCarnotaurusNah using guns is whack. Using spears to take down this behemoth is a real feat reserved for real men.

@@KhanMann66 Lol. Nah man. Real men are strong enough to use their bare hands to show an animal who the real alpha is. In saying that for laughs, I think someone actually killed a leopard with their hands. The animal lunged and he threw his arm up for protection, and it went straight down the cat's throat. His arm got lodged in its throat and the leopard died from suffocation.

Thanks!

Don't look up about Topsy the Asian elephant. It's really sad.

Knowing human’s greed and stupidity you should.

😂

Pfft, yeah, just angry and disgusted at the behavior, greed, and level of disrespect some people have.

"in the last 45 years" would be more accurate.

Estimated

Honestly I completely agree.

RU-vid hates these channels. Not enough clickbait misinformation like the fake science channels.

The problem is all regulation centric. An animal like an elephant or orca should never be alone in an enclosure, rather a reserve, while other animals can get by so long as they have proper enrichment. But no wild animal should be captive to begin with unless necessary for their health or the species survival.

Probably should do that at some point.

As big as female Bengal Tigers

Thank you so true 😮😢

Exactly It's all nonsense tbh Even the pic of Jumbo he doesn't look African

@@southernafricanboy4148 Ummm..... African elephants have been tamed, and used in captivity for thousands of years. Probably the most famous of these were Hannibal's 'War Elephants', which came from a now extinct population of African elephants. African elephants can be tamed just as easily as Asian elephants. It's just that places like circuses, zoos, and other exhibits, prefer Asian elephants because they are smaller(by comparison). And Jumbo was DEFINITELY and African elephant. It's clear as day.

Blue whales can reach over 100 feet in length, and weigh over 400,000 pounds. They are known to be the largest animal to EVER exist on the planet.

There are apparently ancient reports of Chinese alligators reaching 3 meters in length!

@@eliletts8149 whoa! That’s actually quite incredible, a 10 foot alligator is pretty large already, so a Chinese alligator that size would be quite awesome to see! Also wonder how much more broader it’s skull would be at that size, even more robust snout, and preying on larger prey items, and digging more larger burrows. There was also historically besides the Chinese alligator in China, there was also populations of saltwater crocodile and even a giant species of gharial related to the Malayan gharial that went extinct during the Bronze Age. Here was a paper on it and it got 6m!