Did you know that when elephants walk they walk on their tip toes? If you want to learn about elephant's read on. African men elephants can be 14,000 pounds and 13 feet tall. That is really heavy and really tall! African women elephants are smaller and can weigh less than African men elephants but Asian elephants are slightly smaller than African elephants. The subspecies of the Asian elephant family are the Sri Lankan elephant, Borneo elephant, Sumatran, and the Indian elephant but there are not as many subspecies in the African family, there are only two and they are the African Forest elephant and the African Bush elephant. When an elephant is born it is 250 pounds and it starts learning how to survive. Elephants have huge feet so they can collect water with them. Well that was all about the Asian and African elephant so now we now going to learn about where they live.