Fontem paginae Elephantus inspicere

:''Si genus taxinomicum quaeris, vide ''[[Elephas (genus)]]''.''
[[Fasciculus:Elephant near ndutu.jpg|thumb|''[[Loxodonta africana]].'']]
[[Fasciculus:Elephant skeleton.jpg|thumb|[[Os (ossis)|Ossium]] compages ''[[Loxodonta africana|Loxodontae africanae]],'' a Skulls Unlimited International parata et conexa.]]
[[Fasciculus:Comparative view of the human and elephant frame, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1860.jpg|thumb|Comparativa [[homo|hominis]] et elephantis statura. Adumbratio circa [[1860]].]] 
'''Elephantus''',<ref name=dict>''[[Oxford Latin Dictionary]]'': elephantus  elef- ~ntī  ''m.'', (f.) Also elephā(n)s ~ntis." [[Lewis et Short]]: "ĕlĕphantus, i, and ĕlĕphās, antis (rarely ĕlĕphans, antis [...]), m. (fem.)."</ref> sive '''elephas''',<ref name=dict/> olim '''barrus''',{{FD ref}}<ref>Etiam ''bos Luca''{{dubsig}}, ''belua Inda''{{dubsig}}, ''gaetula.''</ref> est [[animal]] ex duobus [[mammalia|mammalium]] [[familia (taxinomia)|familiae]] [[Elephantidae|Elephantidarum]] [[genus (taxinomia)|generibus]] descriptum. Tres elephantorum [[species]] [[taxon exstans|exstant]]: ''[[Loxodonta africana]], [[Loxodonta cyclotis]],'' et ''[[Elephas maximus]]'' (etiam ''Elephas indicus'' vulgo appellatus). Cetera Elephantidarum species et genera [[exstinctio|exstincta]] sunt, nonnullis post recentissimum [[aevum glaciale]]; nani autem ''[[Mammuthus|mammuthi]]'' fortasse usque ad [[2000 a.C.n.]] superfuerunt.<ref>S. L. Vartanyan, V. E. Garutt, et A. V. Sher, [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v362/n6418/abs/362337a0.html "Holocene dwarf mammoths from Wrangel Island in the Siberian Arctic,"] ''Nature'' 362: 337–340 (25 Martii 1993).</ref> Elephanti aliaeque elephantidae inter animalia [[cutis|cutem]] crassam habentia olim numerabantur, in [[Pachydermata|Pachydermatibus]], [[ordo (taxinomia)|ordine]] nunc inrito.

Elephanti sunt maxima animalia [[tellus|terrestria]] nunc [[vita|viventia]].<ref name="NationalGeographicAfricanElephant">{{cite web|url=http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/african-elephant.html|title=African Elephant|publisher=''National Geographic'' | accessdate = [[16 Iunii]] [[2007]]}}.</ref> [[Tempus]] eorum [[gestatio]]nis est viginti duo [[mensis|menses]]—maximum omnium animalium terrestrium. Elephantus recens natus saepe pondo 120 [[chiliogramma|chiliogrammatum]] est. Elephanti usitate a quinquaginta ad septuaginta annos vivunt, sed veterrimus elephantus notus octoginta duo annos vixit.<ref>[http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/wildlife/elephants/elephant_about.html Elephanti], in situ "Animal Corner."</ref> Maximus elephantus notus, in [[Angolia]] anno [[1956]] [[glans (arma)|glandibus]] [[plumbum|plumbeis]] petitus, fuit [[mas]] qui pondo 24&thinsp;000 librarum fuit.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Fenykovi| first = Jose| title = The Biggest Elephant Ever Killed By Man| location = USA| pages = 7| language = English| publisher = CNN| date = [[4 Iunii]] [[1956]]| url = http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1069744/7/index.htm| accessdate = [[3 Aprilis]] [[2009]]}}.</ref> Minimi [[tellus|telluris]] elephanti noti, [[magnitudo|magnitudine]] [[vitulus|vituli]] magni vel [[sus|suis]], fuerunt [[species]] [[praehistoria|praehistorica]] quae in [[insula]] [[Creta]] per [[Pleistocaenum]] [[habitatio|habitabant]].<ref>Dorothea M. A. Bate, "On Elephant Remains from Crete, with Description of ''Elephas creticus'' sp.n.," ''Proc. zool. Soc. London'' (1907), 238–50.</ref>

==In cultura populari==
[[Fasciculus:Justso elephantchild.jpg|thumb|[[Crocodylus]] [[nasus|nasum]] elephanti iuvenis longiorem facit in "Elephant's Child" ex ''[[Just So Stories]],'' [[liber|libro]] a [[Rudyard Kipling]] scripto.]]

Elephanti in [[cultura popularis|cultura populari]] sunt omnibus locis praesentia [[res exotica|rerum exoticarum]] signa.<ref name="Van Riper 73">{{cite book|last=Van Riper|first=A. Bowdoin|title=Science in popular culture: a reference guide|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport|year=2002|page=73|isbn=0-313-31822-0}}.</ref> 

Ficticii elephanti usitate sunt personae in [[litterae pueriles|litteris puerilibus]],<ref name="Van Riper 73" /> in quibus liberis sint exemplo morum optimorum,<ref name="Van Riper 73" /> idemque sunt huius generis litterarum celeberrimae personae.<ref name="Van Riper 73" /> 

{{NexInt}}
*[[Animalium soni]]
*[[Elephas nanus]]

== Notae ==
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==Bibliographia==
*Debruyne, R., V. Barriel, et P. Tassy. [[2003]]. Mitochondrial cytochrome b of the lyakhov mammoth (proboscidea, mammalia): New data and phylogenetic analyses of elephantidae. ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 26 (3): 421–34.
*Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. [[2002]]. ''Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide.'' Westport: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313318220.
*[[s:The Blindmen and the Elephant|Wikisource: "The Blindmen and the Elephant"]], a Ioanne Godfrey Saxe scriptus.
*Williams, Heathcote. [[1989]]. ''Sacred Elephant.'' Novi Eboraci: Harmony Books. ISBN 0517573202.

==Nexus externi==
 {{Victionarium|elephantus|''elephantum''}}

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