The elephant is the world’s largest land animal but this Asian one is slightly smaller than the African species, assuming that a three to six ton mammal can be called smaller. It has a very distinctive and useful physical feature: its trunk. There are about 60,000 muscles in this six foot nose and at the end is a small, finger-like extension. This tool is strong enough to push down a tree yet agile enough to pick up a blade of grass. This Asian elephant is one of five females at the Nairobi section of Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida.
