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Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. The order was formerly much more diverse during the Pleistocene, but most species became extinct during the Late Pleistocene epoch. Distinctive features of elephants include a long proboscis called a trunk, tusks, large ear flaps, pillar-like legs, and tough but sensitive skin. The trunk is used for breathing, bringing food and water to the mouth, and grasping objects. Tusks, which are derived from the incisor teeth, serve both as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging.[1]

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Elephants are featured in The Capital Threat.

In 2 weeks after people, at both Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles zoos, the animals are dying. For the elephants, they are frantic without humans to supply their vegetarian intake of 150 pounds per day, with the use of their superior intelligence and powerful trunks that can lift up to 600 pounds, they are able to break out. John Anderson stated that elephants are well-equipped for operating without people and were able to defend against any predator that comes in their way.

The show then explains the brief history of the elephants, before humans appeared in North America 13,000 years ago, mammoths, ancient close relatives of modern elephants, dominated the grasslands. John Anderson explains that mammoths did very well in the Americas before humans arrived and there are reasons to expect that elephants can manage to survive without their human keepers. Indeed, this is the case, as the elephants manage to make it to freedom and a new life in the wild.

The show revealed their fate in 150 years after people when it stated that the descendants of the North America zoo elephants are enjoying their life without people. John Anderson stated that substantial herds can be seen within the first 100 to 150 years after the original pioneers break loose from sanctuaries and zoos. A lot of pasture land left behind are ideal foraging country for elephants and he thinks that elephants have no trouble at all in making a living. The elephants endured in life after people.

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