In his grand tusks the former has far the advantage--these in some individuals weighing nearly two hundred pounds each--while the tusks of the latter rarely reach the weight of one hundred.

To this, however, there are some exceptions.

Of course a two hundred pound tusk is one of the very largest, and far above the average even of African elephants.

In this species the females are also provided with tusks-- though not of such size as in the males--whereas the female of the Indian elephant has either no tusks at all, or they are so small as to be scarcely perceptible outside the skin of the lips.

The other chief points of difference between the two are that the front of the Asiatic elephant is concave, while that of the African is convex; and the former has four horny toes or _sabots_ on the hind-foot, where only three appear upon that of the latter.