LIVE WEBCAM - ELEPHANTS AT PRAGUE ZOO
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- Location: Prague Zoo, Czech Republic
- Source: www.zoopraha.cz/en
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Info: Live streaming webcam showing Indian elephants in the Elephant Valley Exhibit, at the Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic. The zoo is home to a herd of eight Indian elephants, including Prague’s first native-born elephant calf.
To view elephants in the wild in Africa, visit the Tembe Elephant Park webpage.
More info: The Indian Elephant is one of the recognised sub-species of the Asian Elephant. Asian Elephants differ in many ways from their African relatives – they are smaller in size with smaller ears, and the back of the Indian elephant is more rounded making the crown of the head the highest point of the body. The African elephant species has a two-fingered tip to its trunk where the Indian Elephant has only one ‘finger’ The tusks of the male Indian Elephant are more curved and thicker than those of the African elephant. Female Indian elephants rarely have tusks, and if they do, the tusks do not grow beyond the mouth.
Indian elephants are the most widely distributed of the three sub-species of Asian elephants. They are found throughout southeast Asia, including countries such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, Laos, parts of Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam.