from where do elephants come from?

Answer 1

Mummy elephants no follow this link to see the elephant family tree
Apparently earliest known relative was something called the Paloemestodon.

Presume you want this answer and not where the live or the countries they are from and why is this in Mythology

Answer 2

Long, long ago there was a caterpillar.

One day the caterpillar wrapped itself in a cocoon, and in the spring, out from the cocoon came...

a helicopter.

The helicopter flew off into the sky, flew far away, until it came to a mountain top, where it landed and let out...

a sandwich.

The sandwich sat there on the mountain top for many years. It could do nothing else, for sandwiches don't have legs.

One day a lone hiker found the sandwich. He opened it up, and there inside was...

an umbrella. He pulled out the umbrella and opened it up, and out fell... a kitten. He took the kitten home to his children. "A horse!" said the children. They had never been to school, and they thought all animals were horses. They ran out to the barn and brought back the curry comb and began to brush the kitten. With the first stroke, out from the kitten's hair came...

a seed. A small seed.

"Look! A baby horse!" said the children. "And it's not moving. It must be dead."

So they buried the seed and held a funeral for it. There was much weeping.

The following spring a small green twig sprouted from the ground where the seed had been buried. By summer the twig was as tall as the hiker. By fall the twig was a tall, tall tree, full of broad, green leaves.

In the late fall the leaves fell. And there, in the top of the tree, was...

an elephant.

"Look! In the tree!" said the children. "It's a horse!" They shook and shook the tree until the elephant fell.

They tried to catch it.

After the hiker had dug his children out of the ground, they all pitched in and built the elephant its own room off the barn.

They took very good care of the elephant. Every day they washed it and combed it. And every day they fed it six hundred blueberry bushes.

In return the elephant helped out around the house. He pulled the plow in the spring, and the wagons the rest of the year.

And once a week he would go into town and give the children rides. People would come from millions of miles away to see this wonderful new creature that had come from a tree.

And every year the elephant tree grew new leaves, and every year in the fall, out fell a new elephant.

And that's where all the elephants came from...

...that one tree, that came from a seed, that came from a kitten, that came from an umbrella, that came from a sandwich, that came from a helicopter, that came from a cocoon, that came from a caterpillar.

So now you know.

Answer 3

Europeans first came in contact with elephants in 327 BC, when Alexander the Great descended into India

Elephants disappeared from Europe after the Roman Empire. As exotic and expensive animals, they were exchanged as presents between European rulers, who exhibited them as luxury pets.

There are Africian Bush and Forest Elephants .

The Asian Elephant sometimes known (the Indian Elephant), is found primarily in large parts of India, Sri Lanka, Indochina and parts of Indonesia.

The Borneo elephant has become smaller with relatively larger ears, longer tails, and relatively straight tusks. It is smaller than all the other subspecies of the Asian elephant , also remarkably tame and passive, one reason scientists had thought it was descended from a domestic collection.

The Sumatran Elephant is a subspecies of the Asian Elephant. As the name suggests, the elephant is only found in Sumatra. The Sumatran Elephant is smaller than the Indian subspecies and is extremely endangered.

In Thailand, white elephants are sacred and a symbol of royal power; A white elephant in Thailand is not necessarily albino, although it must have pale skin. Candidate animals are assessed according to a series of physical and behavioural criteria (including eye colour, the shape of the tail and ears, and intelligence).

In Burma too, white elephants have been revered symbols of power and good fortune

Pygmy Elephants are reported to be living in both Africa and Asia. The African Pygmy Elephant is currently considered to consist of small African Forest Elephants.

The term Pygmy Elephant should not be confused with "dwarf elephant" which is used for a number of extinct species of elephants that evolved their size due to island dwarfing.

Answer 4

Maybe because the question "where do elephants come from?" is posted under mythology, you were looking for a myth about the origins of the elephant.

I don't know any African or Indian myths, but the Greeks imagined that they hatched from the seething, primordial mud at the beginning of time.

Answer 5

The X's and Y's of a h0rny mommy and daddy elephant, deep in some African or Asian bush or Game Reserve...

Did you think they popped out gigantic eggs? Dont worry, I did too.....


when I was 2...

Answer 6

some people say elephants come from africa but they also come from australia so they can be free in dubai,africa thats the name of the place but if you reaally want to know where they come from go to www.rickwalton.com you will find everthing there but i gave you the best answer that i could and the name of the city

Answer 7

There's a great story about the origin of the species in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.

Answer 8

India, Thailand, Burma, and parts of Africa, mostly in the Eastern part.

Answer 9

The department of redundancy department. Reread your question.

Answer 10

other elephants