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Elephant is generally considered as large land mammals in two genera of the family Elephantidae that is Elephas and Loxodonta. Three species of such types of animals are existing nowadays are the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest animal and the Asian which is also known as the Indian Elephant. African elephants are illustrious from Asian elephants in more ways. The most noticeable being their ears which are much superior. The African type is larger than the Asian and has a curved in back.

Both African males and females have peripheral tusks and are more often than not less hairy than their Asian cousins. Such types of animals have conventionally been classified as a single species comprising two distinct subspecies. The two species that they are said to be consisted of are namely the savanna animal and the forest animal species. According to recent DNA analysis suggests that these may actually constitute diverse species. This split is not commonly accepted by experts and a third species of African animal has also been proposed.
All other species and genera of such types of animals are extinct, some since the last ice age dwarf forms of mammoths may have survived as late as 2,000 BC. Elephants and other Elephantidae were once classified with other thick skinned animals in a now invalid order, Pachydermata. Such types of animals are herbivores, spending sixteen hours a day collecting plant food. Their diet is at least fifty percent grasses, supplemented with leaves, bamboo, twigs, bark, roots, and small amounts of fruits, seeds and flowers. Because such animals only digest forty percent of what they eat, they have to make up for their digestive systems lack of efficiency in volume. An adult can consume 140 to 270 kg of food a day. It is a matter of fact that about sixty percent of that food leaves the elephants body undigested.