Elephants use ear flaps, rumbles, trunk reaches and other forms of communication to greet peers, new research suggests. When elephants reunite with friends, they greet each other with ear flaps, rumbles and other deliberate sounds and gestures, new research shows.

Deinotheriums had longer legs than modern elephants and were more massive. They were some of the largest elephants to exist as the only larger elephants may have been the Columbian Mammoths and a huge elephant called Palaeoloxodon namadicus. Out of the various species of Deinotherium, D.

The largest elephant on record was an adult male African savanna elephant. He weighed about 24,000 pounds (10,886 kilograms) and was 13 feet (3.96 meters) tall at the shoulder! Most elephants don't get that large, but African elephants do grow larger than Asian elephants.

The easiest way to distinguish African elephants from Asian elephants is to look at the ears. African elephants have much larger ears that look sort of like the continent of Africa, while Asian elephants have smaller, round ears.