You may already know the old trick of identifying an elephant by its ears: While an African elephant has large ears which resemble the shape of Africa, Asian elephants have smaller ears, often around half the length of their head. But have you ever noticed that the two species also have different head shapes? Looking at an elephant front-on, the African genus have fuller, more rounded heads, while the Asian elephants have more of an ‘m’ shaped head, domed on either side with an indentation down