Why are elephants afraid of mice?
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The mice would crawl up the elephants trunks.
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bulls are generally agressive animals.  they don't like the feeling of anyone on their back.
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For elephants living in warmer climes, hair would be a distinct disadvantage.  With a critter that size, one of their main challenges is actually getting rid of body heat.  That's why African elephants have such large ears, so they can radiate away some of their excess body heat.\n\nWoolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) thrived during the cold periods at the height of maximum glaciation, particularily in areas such as Beringia, Alaska and Siberia that would have been hyperarid and bitterly cold much of the year.  There, having a thick coat of woolly hair would have been a definite advantage, allowing the mammoth to survive in conditions of -40 degrees quite happily.\n\nIt is possible that not all mammoths were as woolly.  There were other species, such as the Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) which was found in the southern United States and down into Mexico, that seem as though they might have been better adapted to the warm interglacial periods.  These mammoths may have looked more like the modern elephants, only bigger (one tusk uncovered in Texas was close to 5 m long).
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Elephants.\n\nThey had to import adult female matriarchs and their herds to one African natural preserve, because all they had was a herd of juvenile male elephants....who had turned delinquent, and were KILLING rhinos for fun.  The matriarchs did some major rear-end whupping and the juvinile males learned to behave.\n\nhttp://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms034.htm\n\nHippos are rulers of the water, when nothing bigger is around, but they are much smaller and softer than elephants... if ever confronted, hippos wouldn't stand a chance... considering that elephants can kill the much better armored rhinos!
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This is what i found on a website listed below it also has more on that page about fear as an emotion also.  somthing i didnt see in that paper was how animals can smell fear because of the chemical response our bodies have because of fear and the surge of adrenilin it can create.\n\n\nWhat is fear? Technically it is a fight or flight response to a real or perceived threat. Fear is an emotion that responds to threatening situations. Animals exhibit fear and have elaborate defense mechanisms built in to respond to threats. Because we are physically an animal so do we. We respond to threat pretty much in the same way an animal does. Except that humans have a higher mental capacity that animals. This is a gift that separates us from the animal kingdom, but at the same time gives us rational thought. So that humans can reason their situations out and react not in a rigid way as an animal does, but in varied ways. \nAn animal cannot choose to be not fearful, it either is or isn't fearful depending on the situation. Animals are programmed to respond based on instinct. That is that they do what they do because they are compelled to act in a certain way. Humans have some of the same instinct tendencies that animals have, but with the capacity to rationalize our situations, we can, no matter what the threat, real or perceived, choose to fear or not to fear.
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What about an elephant?
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For some reason certain religions need a figure which can invoke fear in it's followers. Some religions believe that it's better for their followers to fear the punishment than to understand why something is wrong. \nSatan was invented for the same reason that wives tales about "beasts" in the forest were, to scare their children into not doing what their parents didn't want them to.
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I am willing to bet that you are looking for the Elephant.  There are many sites on the web which have stated that the elephant is the only mammal which can not jump.  This is NOT the truth.\nJust on the Web alone there are several others listed including the okapi, guinea pig and raccoon who are also reported as not being able to jump.  (see references).\nIn the same class as the elephant, both Hippopotamus and Rhinoceroses come closer to skipping than jumping.  Like the elephant, their body mass is too great in relation to their mass.\nIn addition, all bats have weak legs and usually have trouble walking, let alone jumping.\nIt has been recorded that sloths move too slow to jump.  Plus they seldom climb down out of their trees.\nGiraffes are known to run, but apparently always have one “foot on the ground.”  Due to their neck structure, it may not be possible for them to jump in the usual meaning of the word.\nDue to their odd physical shapes and relatively slow speeds, echidna (spiny anteater), \nduck-billed platypus and koala might also be listed among the non-jumpers.\nFinally, there are the non-land mammals most of which can come at least part way out of the water, but none have legs and by definition, can not jump.  These would include whales, porpoises, dolphins, manatees and maybe even sea lions.
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elephants are amazing\nand to think that they can find their way to their ancestral graves without ever having been there just tops it off
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Absolutely not.  Elephants are scared of everything they don't know, so it could be possible to run from a mouse for a wild young elephant, but as possible as running from another animal.  The ones in circus, which I think you refer to... elephants know everything around them, the environment they live in.  When they eat, probably can be hidden some mice in between the bales..., so it is not true at all that elephants can be scared of mice.  I heard it on National Geographic Channel.
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Any animal will bite if scared or angry.  They don't do it vindictively, they are just protecting themselves like they would in the wild.
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Elephants, There was a case a few years ago of an elephant relocation programme in South Africa. The males moved were young and caused a lot of problems by killing a number of endangered rihno (5 I think!). Problem  was sorted when they introduced an older, larger dominant male who suppresed the 'musth' (state of increased hormones when males go a little bananas)of the younger ones.
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Large elephants will surprisingly eat eggs sometimes.\n\nSometimes, elephants will eat surprisingly large eggs.
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First of all, neither the Elephant nor the Lion lives in the jungle in Africa.  They prefer savannas, grassy plains, open woodlands and scrub country.  I'm not quite sure of the habitat of the Indian Elephant.  But here in Africa, where the two species live together, I think the Elephant is overshadowing the Lion.  Yes it is true that Lions can pray on the Elephant, but this usually only happens to the weak outsiders rejected by the herd.  A adult Elephant can fight off up to 7 lionesses-which clearly makes the elephant the winner..Furthermore, the lion is weak on its own, and doesn't install to much fear in the rest of the animal kingdom.  The Elephant is a truly majestic animal, and I believe, is the true king of the "jungle".
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The Indian elephant, also called Asian elephant, is the highest off the ground at its head. The African Bush elephant is tallest at its shoulder. Also like was said the ears are a major difference and its size. Also male Indian elephants have tusks, female Indian elephants do not whereas African elephants both sexes have tusks. The Indian elephant is more easily trained as a mount and is easier to domesticate as a draft animal that will carry heavy logs and so forth. They can follow some 26 different commands. African elephants are too wild, chaotic, unpredictable and dangerous to have regular contact with humans or to be used as mounts, like horses.\n\nTo make things even worse there is the African Bush elephant AND the African Forest elephant on top of all that. A third species right there, if not even more. Why do they have to call it all separate species instead of just three races of a single animal is hard to tell. Maybe it has to do with elephant conservation and making the elephant population look lower than it actually is to give the animal more rights by only counting a smaller number of a particular species.
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Have you ever seen an elephant hide in a strawberry patch?\n\nHides preety good doesn't he?
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Ooooh I know, African ones have bigger ears and Indian ones are more wrinkled and I think they look uglier, they like to eat grass, foliage, fruit, branches, and twigs. I'd say the best place for a Cuddly elephant is Hamleys and they sell a lot of soft toys where profits goto WWF too.\n\nHere's some information: