Elephant

A Word About the Hair The extinct wooly mammoth had loads of hair, suiting him to a cold environment, but African and A...

A Word About the Hair The extinct wooly mammoth had loads of hair, suiting him to a cold environment, but African and Asian elephants have only sparse brown hair here and there on their bodies, with concentrated tufts on places like the mouth and tail. The lack or abundance of hair are just traits of natural selection, the end products of a common elephant ancestor. Other such traits are ears (larger in African elephants than in Asians), hind toes (Asians usually have four, Africans five), and teeth (African elephants sport less narrow teeth than their cousins, thus they are called Loxodonta -- Lozenge-tooth).