Oil on Canvas, 30" X 40"

African elephants are native to a wide variety of habitats including semi-desert scrub, open savannahs and dense forest regions. Besides its greater size, it differs from the Asian elephant in having larger ears and tusks, a sloping forehead, and two "fingers" at the tip of the trunk. It also has more wrinkled skin and bears tusks in both males and females. African elephants are capable of making a wide variety of vocal sounds such as grunts, purrs, bellows, whistles and the obvious trumpeting.